And The #1 Financier Of Terrorism Worldwide Is…
WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia remains the world’s leading source of money for Al Qaeda and other extremist networks and has failed to take key steps requested by U.S. officials to stem the flow, the Bush administration’s top financial counter-terrorism official said Tuesday.
Stuart A. Levey, a Treasury undersecretary, told a Senate committee that the Saudi government had not taken important steps to go after those who finance terrorist organizations or to prevent wealthy donors from bankrolling extremism through charitable contributions, sometimes unwittingly.
“Saudi Arabia today remains the location where more money is going to terrorism, to Sunni terror groups and to the Taliban than any other place in the world,” Levey said under questioning.
U.S. officials have previously identified Saudi Arabia as a major source of funding for extremism. But Levey’s comments were notable because, although reluctant to directly criticize a close U.S. ally, he acknowledged frustration with administration efforts to persuade the Saudis and others to act.
“We continue to face significant challenges as we move forward with these efforts, including fostering and maintaining the political will among other governments to take effective and consistent action,” Levey said, later adding: “Our work is not nearly complete.”
(LAT)
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Saudi Arabia…And who here in Dollard Nation hasn’t been saying that? What, is the government just now getting up to speed? LOL
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:45 pmbut dont we get our offshore oil from saudi arabia? hmmm
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pmnuuuuuuke Mecca.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pmMan, good thing we are paying them a 100.00 a barrel for oil. I would shudder to think of paying that to American companies operating in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:51 pmYeah what right do have, to use our own proven reserves?! We owe it to our “friends” in the ME to fund their palaces and terrorist ventures! I think we should organize a Minutemen-like protest, where we symbolically excavate for oil (and other sources of petroleum), where we know it exists. Keep demanding Congress give the finger to envirowackos, and let us become energy self-dependent!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 pmEvery time i hear something like this it just makes me think of the obvious. drill for oil in Alaska, allow offshore oil rigs to go wherever they need to go. they have technology to drill more than 5,000 feet now, i think we would find more than enough oil and even have some to sell. Fuck Saudi Arabia with a capital F! im tired of hearing about them, the royal family should be kissing our asses not the other way around
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Noooooooo. I never would have suspected. Now the question are they going to do anything about it. How about withholding all aid to a country that shouldn’t be getting any in the first place.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 pmThe planet is facing the threat of Islamist jihad and the Al-Gore nitwits want to block oil drilling in Alaska.
God forbid we make the Inuit wealthy. We’re soooooo much better off with wealthy terrorists.
With nods to GregGS…
“Nuuuuuuuuuke Mecca!”
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 pmNot according to the Libtard pukes.
According to them it’s George Bush and the US of A.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:33 pmAnd think of all the additional taxes that Congress would
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:19 pmpick up on US oil drilling? Hell they already have a racket going on with US oil companies…taxing them at 48% and then taxing the average american additional monies at the pump for each gallon of oil. You’d think that Congress was running some kind of racketeering operation in cahoots with ME oil producers or something?
Saudi Arabia cannot simultaneously be a close ally and the biggest and principalist money supplier to A.Q. That is freaking absurd.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:00 pmSome body with some balls read those towel-headed bed-sheeters the riot act. This is insane. This is what P.C. gets you for your dollar.
Remember the trite line, “Either you are with us, or you are against us!”
Ya right.
I need a freaking beer.