SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR GIVING MONEY TO FAMILIES OF SUICIDE BOMBERS

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[a_witness]

It was the sons of Saudi Arabia who murdered our citizens on September 11th ...

[Republic]

That is just sick .. and she calls herself a mother ..

Very sordid, indeed. Beyond belief. May her future apartment be filled with the memory it's cost.

[cookcounty]

"“We go to every family and give them a check,”

Oh, oh. Somebody's bank is gonna get busted.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

In the spirit of the Iraqis, we should send the suicide bomber's family something, too. May I suggest something containing high explosives?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Oh, oh. Somebody's bank is gonna get busted.

With a bunker-buster I hope.

[dinok]

You said it. The leftie press here would rather see a defeat of Bush next fall and 2 years from now than a victory over the Arabs. Thye lost the Viet-nam war for us and if we loose this war, it will be at home with the help of the CNN types.

[Rockitz]

Time to push our technology in fuel cells and solar and let these ba$tard$ choke on their oil. There's no reason to have these countries as allies other than to buy their oil.

[onedoug]

"Fill 'er up."

Very principled, indeed, this war on terror.

[McGavin999]

"Listen children, mommie wants a new house. You kids talk amoung yourself and decide who's going to die so we can move".

Some of these people are cockroaches.

[EternalHope]

If this is true, the House of Saud must put a stop to it immediately.

If they refuse, the House of Saud must go.

(If was questionable if they were saving anyway.)

[Mitchell]

I would suggest that we keep in mind the difference between Iraqi state support for terrorist proxies, and the support that is coming from individuals in Saudi and Qatar.

Yes, but this is apparently being done openly by so-called "charities" in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and the governments there seem to be doing nothing to stop them. That means that these charities are terrorist organizations (since they're supporting terrorism financially), and that means that the governments of these countries are harboring terrorist organizations. U.S. policy says that harboring terrorists will be treated in the same way as supporting terrorism itself. (By the way, this example illustrates why the exemption we've given to Arafat is bad policy.)

[The Great Satan]

Those charities have raised money here, too, and our government hasn't stopped it -- that doesn't make it culpable for 9/11. The Saudi government may not be our cup of tea, but I'm personally doubtful that the regime there is particularly enthusiastic about Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. They face a difficult situation, internally, as does Pakistan's president, who I also suspect doesn't give a hoot for radical Islam. I'm not claiming to any great expertise on the internal machinations in those countries, but I think it's foolish to lump them all together as equally evil. Saddam is in a league by himself, though.

[sheik yerbouty]

Biblical or Carthaginean. Works for me!

[sheik yerbouty]

She is an unnatural vampire, splashing the blood of her children on the pavement, and then celebrating.

[angkor]

the support that is coming from individuals in Saudi and Qatar.

The Saudi government - or charities that are explicitly state sponsored - have repeatedly committed funds to the al Aqusa infitada and expressly to "martyrs."

It is all quite clearly documented on the Saudi's US Embassy web site at http://www.saudiembassy.net/press_release/press_release00.htm. I've posted the details and cites here on FR within the past week.

The Saudis explicitly promote the Palestinean cause and payments to the "martyrs."

FINANCE MINISTER SPEAKS OUT ON AID TO PALESTINIANS

March 20, 2001

Dr. Al-Assaf said that the emergency Arab Summit in Cairo in October 2000 accepted a proposal made by Deputy Prime Minister and Commander of the National Guard Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz concerning the establishment of a fund for the intifada. This fund has resources of $200 million, with the Kingdom's share standing at $50 million, and targets the families of victims of the intifada, specifically to educate the sons of martyrs and rehabilitate the injured. Dr. Al-Assaf added that the Crown Prince's second proposal, to establish a fund for Al-Aqsa, with resources of $800 million in which the Kingdom's share is $200 million, is dedicated to finance projects that would protect the Arab and Islamic identity of Al-Quds [Jerusalem].

Donations are still coming in to the committee, chaired by Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, that was set up to coordinate the fundraising. This committee, Dr. Al-Assaf said, has pledged a sum of SR 20,000 [$5,333] to each family that has suffered from martyrdom. A total of SR 124 million [$33.07 million] has been transferred for this purpose, and to provide for the injured.

[MeekOneGOP]

But Saddam is not the only one giving money. Charities from Saudi Arabia and Qatar — both U.S. allies — pay money to families of Palestinians killed in the fighting, including suicide bombers.

The mother of Jamal Nasser, a 23-year-old architecture student who died trying to ram an explosives-laden car into a bus carrying Jewish settlers, said she received a check for $10,000 from Iraq and another for $5,000 from Saudi Arabia. She said she plans to put the money toward buying an apartment. She wants to move her family from the small place they’ve been renting for more than 20 years. The money she received is about half the cost of a small apartment in Nablus.

Now isn't that precious? How thoughtful!

Gee, I could say that these people aren't people but are more like wild animals, but that would be a high insult to animals everywhere...........

Hi, Mom! No, no!
Everything's going just as planned!
Mark Steyn Link Excerpt:

Just as revealing was the reaction from the European media. In the American press, you read things like: "An observer to the bomb-blast scene described a dead young girl, perhaps 10 or 12, lying on the ground with her eyes open, looking as if she was surprised." For Europe, on the other hand, the main significance of this development was that it was "unhelpful" to the "peace process". Before I'm accused of being more upset about dead Jewish than dead Muslim kids, let me say that I take people at their own estimation: in the Palestinian Authority schools, they teach their children about the glories of martyrdom; indeed, the careers guidance counsellor appears to have little information on alternative employment prospects; at social events, the moppets are dressed up as junior jihadi, with toy detonators and play bombs. It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do. So does Saddam Hussein, whose government (the subject of an admiring article in this week's Spectator) gives $25,000 to the family of each Palestinian suicide bomber. So does the Arab League, which at last year's summit passed a resolution hailing the "spirit of sacrifice" of the Palestinian "martyrs" and thus licensed Wednesday's massacre. As for the "peace process", those Europeans who, just a few months ago, were urging the Americans to cease operations for Ramadan evidently feel no compunction to demand from Chairman Arafat and his dark subsidiaries any similar "bombing pause" for Passover.

In the days after September 11, we were told that Muslims had great respect for their fellow "people of the book" - ie, Jews and Christians. This ought to be so: after all, the dramatis personae of the Koran include Abraham, Moses, David, John the Baptist, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. It's one thing to believe that the Israelis are occupiers and oppressors and that the Zionist state should not exist. But no Muslim with any understanding of his shared heritage could in good conscience blow up a Passover Seder. It marks a new low in the Palestinians' descent into nihilism - though, as usual, the silence of the imams is deafening. As for the nonchalance of the Europeans, that too should not surprise us: in my experience, the Continent's Christians, practising and nominal, find the ceremonies of Jewish life faintly creepy, notwithstanding that these were also the rituals by which their own Saviour lived.

But this year, when the Christians' solar calendar and the Jews' lunar calendar have coincided and Easter and Passover fall together, it's a safe bet that George W Bush will make the connection. The first time I ever heard him speak, he spoke openly about his faith and about Christ in a way that would be unimaginable for a British politician. He will know all the details - "the baby tried to crawl away, but it died, too".......................

[MeekOneGOP]

Before I'm accused of being more upset about dead Jewish than dead Muslim kids, let me say that I take people at their own estimation: in the Palestinian Authority schools, they teach their children about the glories of martyrdom; indeed, the careers guidance counsellor appears to have little information on alternative employment prospects; at social events, the moppets are dressed up as junior jihadi, with toy detonators and play bombs.

[Anamensis]

'm not claiming to any great expertise on the internal machinations in those countries, but I think it's foolish to lump them all together as equally evil.

Personally, I don't lump them together as "equally evil" but I do lump them together as "part of the problem" (to greater or lesser degrees.) I've given careful thought to the matter and I've decided to build a wall around the entire Middle East (except Israel) and then fill it with water. (-: