Do the Saudis regret their military policy? About as much as Israel does theirs. And the US theirs. Noam Chomsky praises UK INDEPENDENT correspondent Patrick Cockburn as one of the only reporters telling the world what is REALLY happening in the Middle East. Excerpt from this post on his FB wall about Saudi Arabias role in funding AlQaida: The 9/11 Commission report identified Saudi Arabia as the main source of al-Qa’ida financing. But six years after the attack – at the height of US-al-Qa’ida military conflict in Iraq in 2007 – Stuart Levey, the Under-Secretary of the US Treasury in charge of monitoring and impeding terror financing, told ABC News that, when it came to al-Qa’ida, “if I could somehow snap my fingers and cut off the funding from one country, it would be Saudi Arabia.” He added that not one person identified by the US or the UN as funding terrorism had been prosecuted by the Saudis. Despite this high-level frustration at the Saudis for not cooperating, nothing much had improved a couple of years later. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote in December 2009 in a cable released by Wikileaks: “Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, LeT [Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan] and other terrorists groups.” She complained that in so far as Saudi Arabia did act against al-Qa’ida, it was as a domestic threat and not against its activities abroad. Hes a regular guest on DEMOCRACY NOW, speaking Aug 15 about The Rise of ISIS: US Invasion of Iraq, Foreign Backing of Syrian Rebels Helped Fuel Jihadis’ Advance. He is the author of The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising. democracynow.org/2014/8/13/the_rise_of_isis_us_invasion Diane Garza
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:39:29 +0000
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