Saudis Transfer $500M To Al Quaeda

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by CerberusIV
Step 1. US invades Iraq, establishes friendly regime, secures oil supplies and gets military basing rights.

Step 2. Saudi Arabia falls into civil war (promoted by CIA?) and becomes fundamentalist state.

Step 3. US forces (based in Iraq) move into Saudi to "restore order" and establish friendly regime.

Time will tell.

Whew, can anyone spell neocolonialism? okay, so you can. But you peeked

This path will lead to America becoming the most hated country in the world and to the resulting collapse of American's position as the sole superpower in the world.

[Solly]

Step 1. US invades Iraq, establishes friendly regime, secures oil supplies and gets military basing rights.

Step 2. Saudi Arabia falls into civil war (promoted by CIA?) and becomes fundamentalist state.

Step 3. US forces (based in Iraq) move into Saudi to "restore order" and establish friendly regime.

Time will tell.

To me this sounds great.

What's wrong with it?

[Jac de Molay]

Yeah really, The terrorists of the world would just love a US colony in the the country with the two Holy cities.

[Arrian]

This path will lead to America becoming the most hated country in the world

Not that I'm advocating that path of action, but we've got this part already.

-Arrian

[DinoDoc]

Step 2. Saudi Arabia falls into civil war (promoted by CIA?) and becomes fundamentalist state.

Becomes?

[Felch]

This path will lead to America becoming the most hated country in the world

I'm not worried about how popular I am among people who oppress women, trample on religious freedom, and fund international terrorism. In fact, I'd just as soon be their worst enemy.

[chequita guevara]

What happened to you're either for us or against us?

Oh right, Iraq.

[chequita guevara]

Eli, need a source for that, thank you!

[DuncanK]

Originally posted by Edan


And maybe pull out our troops from SA? (Of course, that might risk it becoming the next Afghanistan - we have to make sure there is a credible birth of stable democracy there...)

Hehe. SA is at least as big of a threat to us as Afghanistan. The Taliban were providing Al Qaeda hiding and SA was providing them with funds.

[DuncanK]

Without Saudi money the muslim terrorists would be insignificant flees. If we could some how make the Saudis poor that would be great. Their money goes to no good anyway.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Eli, need a source for that, thank you!

Haven't found that, but found this interesting:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A52054-2002Oct6&notFound=true

Federal and European investigators say that several lines of inquiry have emerged from their review of documents and computer files they carted off in a dozen panel trucks from offices and homes affiliated with the Herndon-based SAAR Foundation, a tight-knit cluster of prominent Muslim groups funded by wealthy Saudis

A third part of the investigation concerns a key mystery: whether an astonishing $1.8 billion in gifts passed through the SAAR Foundation in a single year, 1998. SAAR leaders reported that sum on a tax form, but later said it was a clerical error.

[The Mad Monk]

Found this:

Report: Saudi royal family paid Bin Laden not to
attack kingdom

By Sharon Sadeh, Ha'aretz Correspondent




Senior members of the Saudi royal family paid the Al Qaida organization of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban regime at least 200 million pounds so that they would not attack targets in Saudi Arabia, the Sunday Times reported Sunday.

The report was based on affidavits and testimonies that were part of a lawsuit submitted to a U.S. court by the families of victims of the September 11 attack.

The alleged agreement between the Saudis and Al Qaida also stated that bin Laden would not attempt to overthrow the current Saudi regime in return for a Saudi promise that it would ignore requests to extradite Al Qaida members and to close the organization's training camps in Afghanistan. The Saudis, according to the report, also promised to provide oil to the Taliban regime and to bin Laden.

According to the documents, some of which have been made public in the American media over the past few weeks, the agreement was drafted after two secret meetings between the royal family and Taliban and al Qaida leaders, which were attended by bin Laden himself.

The documents, based on private investigations carried out by the families' attorneys and on intelligence information, reveal that the money paid by the Saudi royal family was used by al Qaida to fund training camps in Afghanistan, where the perpetrators of the September 11 attack spent time.

The documents state the names of the Saudi royals who engaged in negotiations with al Qaida, and give details on the way the organization raised its funds, including the names of charity funds and businesses that worked for al Qaida.

According to the documents, the Saudi royal family was concerned that there would be attacks on U.S. targets within the kingdom, and was afraid that al Qaida members, expelled from Sudan to Afghanistan, would try to overthrow the Saudi regime because of its acquiesence to the presence of U.S. forces in its soil.

The first meeting between Saudi princes and businessmen and al Qaida representatives was held in Paris in 1996 and another was held in 1998 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the paper said.

The second meeting was attended by Saudi Prince Turki al Faisal al-Saud, Taliban leaders, senior Pakistani security officials and bin Laden. Prince al Saud knew bin Laden personally because he was the one who chose bin Laden to organize the Muslim militia that fought to expel the Soviets from Afghanistan.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=201288&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y