yep..this is the same guy who gave al Qaeda $120 MILLION of his own money..yep >>> ------------------------ Despite recent tensions over American policy towards Iran and Syria, Saudi under King Abdullah played a vital role in U.S. counterterrorism operations. The country quietly hosts a CIA drone base used for conducting strikes into Yemen, including the strike believed to have killed American-born preacher Anwar al-Awlaki. More controversially, Abdullah’s government is also believed to have provided extensive logistical support for American military operations during the invasion of Iraq; an uncomfortable fact which the kingdom has understandably tried to keep quiet with its own population. Perhaps most importantly however, King Abdullah upheld the economic cornerstones of America’s long and fateful alliance with Saudi Arabia: arms purchases and the maintenance of a reliable flow of oil from the country to global markets. The one Saudi king who in past failed to hold up part of this agreement met with an untimely end, and was seemingly on less positive terms American government officials. King Abdullahs regime was also blamed for backing and arming sectarian Sunni offensives across the Middle East, paving the way for the current crises gripping Iraq and Syria. Regionally, Al-Qaeda in Iraq—and what it has evolved into—has to be Abdullahs biggest legacy, said Jamal Ghosn, managing editor of the daily Arabic language newspaper Al-Akhbar. That and the Saudi money spent on global Wahhabi daawa [proselytizing] have left the world with a mutant religion that will wreak havoc for years to come. And regional press outlets are as unlikely as Western ones to portray King Abdullah accurately, Ghosn added. commondreams.org/news/2015/01/23/nauseating-praise-dead-saudi-king-exposes-hypocrisy-west-say-critics
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