Posted on 09/16/2007 6:43:09 AM PDT by SJackson
U.S.: Saudis Still Filling Al Qaeda's Coffers ABC News: The Blotter September 11, 2007 5:40 PM http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/us-saudis-still.html Brian Ross Reports:
Despite six years of promises, U.S. officials say Saudi Arabia continues to look the other way at wealthy individuals identified as sending millions of dollars to al Qaeda.
"If I could somehow snap my fingers and cut off the funding from one country, it would be Saudi Arabia," Stuart Levey, the under secretary of the Treasury in charge of tracking terror financing, told ABC News.
Despite some efforts as a U.S. ally in the war on terror, Levey says Saudi Arabia has dropped the ball. Not one person identified by the United States and the United Nations as a terror financier has been prosecuted by the Saudis, Levey says.
"When the evidence is clear that these individuals have funded terrorist organizations, and knowingly done so, then that should be prosecuted and treated as real terrorism because it is," Levey says.
Among those on the donor list, according to U.S. officials, is Yasin al Qadi, a wealthy businessman named on both the U.S. and U.N. lists of al Qaeda financiers one month after the 9/11 attacks.
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Some war, eh?
I very much doubt that this is true.
Here in the Heart Land of Ohio it is certainly not true. Not with the people that I know.
The majority of the people that I know have brick and mortar jobs that produce tangible goods or service jobs that require them to go places and do things.
I know a few engineers that may be able to work from home a day or two a week on occasion but those jobs are few and far between here in the real world.
Even where this computer commuting is possible I can see where certain efficiencies would be lost because where I work human (face to face) interaction produces results that would not otherwise occur.
We fund terrorists every time we fill up. Energy independence now.
The rust belt isn’t the future. In Japan for the last decade or so there have been factories at which the only job for a human was watching monitors for any sign of problems with the robots.
They haven’t built an assembly line yet that repairs itself.
They US has the most modern Automobile assembly lines in the world and they still employ thousands of human workers.
Health care is very labor intensive and large modern hospitals are centrally located in large urban areas away from bedroom communities.
Sorry rick your plan will only work for a small minority of the countries working people. It will work of numbers crunchers like loan officers, architects civil engineers, health insurance claims processors and payroll clerks but the majority of the people in the world still do physical work.
We were discussing proven reserves of crude.
"proven reserves" is a fact.
"we have more of it than anyone else" is an opinion, not based on "proven" anything.
Apples and oranges.
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