Saudi Funds
Linked to US Sleeper Cells
By Yardena
Saudi
Arabia continues to spend large sums of money promoting an image of
friendliness to the United States. Here’s an example; a site that showed
up in our referrer log today for some reason (they’re watching us):
http://www.saudi-us-relations.org/index.html
Saudi Arabia United States Relations
The
problem, though, is that for the past 3 decades, while we weren’t
watching them, they’ve spent an unbelievable amount ($70 billion) to
infiltrate our society to a very scary degree http://216.26.163.62/2003/ss_terror_06_27.html
World Tribune.com: Saudi-financed Wahabi crusade tied to U.S. sleeper cell
network
Administration
officials said the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement community has
linked the threat from Al Qaida to Saudi financing of Wahabi institutions
that promote an anti-West ideology.
Larry
Mefford, assistant director of the FBI counterterrorism division, told a
Senate subcommittee on terrorism that the FBI has launched an effort to
uncover and capture Al Qaida sleeper cells in 40 states. He said the
sleeper cells could contain those who helped Al Qaida in the September
2001 suicide attacks.
Treasury
Department general counsel David Aufhauser, who has negotiated extensively
with Riyad, said Saudi Arabia has become the epicenter of financing for Al
Qaida and related movements. Aufhauser said Saudi Arabia's efforts to
disseminate its Wahabi doctrine comprise a "very important factor to
be taken into account when discussing terrorist financing."
"It
needs to be dealt with," Aufhauser told the Senate subcommittee on
terrorism.
"The
problem we are looking at today is the state-sponsored doctrine and
funding of an extremist ideology that provides the recruiting grounds,
support infrastructure and monetary lifeblood to today's international
terrorists," subcommittee chairman Sen. Jon Kyl said. ...
Saudi
Arabia has launched several campaigns to persuade Americans that the
kingdom does not support Al Qaida and has cooperated in the U.S.-led war
against Islamic insurgents. The Saudi embassy in Washington has held
several news conferences in which government spokespeople asserted that
more than 1,000 Saudi clerics suspected of being Al Qaida loyalists have
been dismissed.
The
Senate Judiciary Committee panel heard testimony from experts and warnings
from senators that the administration has not addressed the threat of
Saudi dissemination of Wahabi doctrine in the United States. Committee
members said the Saudi effort includes the construction of hundreds of
mosques and the indoctrination of U.S. soldiers, particularly Muslim
chaplains.
"The
Wahabi presence in the United States is a foreboding one that has
potentially harmful and far-reaching consequences for our nation's
mosques, schools, prisons and even our military," Sen. Charles
Schumer, a New York
Democrat,
said. "My fear is, if we don't wake up and take action now, those
influenced by Wahabism's extremist ideology will harm us in as of yet
unimaginable ways."
The
focus of the Saudi efforts to spread Wahabi doctrine was the Al Haramain
Foundation which until earlier this year had a network throughout Asia,
Africa and Europe. The United States has deemed Al Haramain a financier of
Al Qaida and ordered the foundation's assets frozen.
The
committee heard testimony; much of it contained in U.S. government reports
that disclosed the huge Saudi investment in disseminating Wahabi doctrine,
including control of most national Muslim organizations in the United
States. Alex Alexiev, a researcher at the Washington-based Center for
Security Policy, said Riyad spent $70 billion from 1975 to 2002 in Islamic
projects around the world.
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