Posted on 06/24/2009 5:04:09 PM PDT by balls
All Things Considered, June 24, 2009 · Documents obtained by The New York Times suggest members of the Saudi royal family may have provided financial support to extremists, including al-Qaida, in the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The documents are part of an ongoing legal effort by Sept. 11 families to hold Saudi Arabia and the royal family accountable for the attacks. New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau offers his insight.
(Audio at NPR link, above)
How about we give them 1 Bush, 1 Carter, 1 Hussein, and 2 bonus Clintons in exchange for our oil and defense costs refunded?
No?
OK, we'll add in another Bush, but that's my final offer.
Otherwise, we just kill every Wahhabist we find, feed their corpses to pigs, burn every Koran on Earth, and just flat out take your oil, wiping your repulsive cult from the memory of man.
Better?
They should eat it up. It is by their liberal mouthpiece, NPR.
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Works for me.
Although Bozo is more blatant about it, being a muslim, Bush had ties to the Saudis and kissed their a**es regularly. Remember to thank that particular RINO and the GOP for not fielding better candidates. They are all in cahoots. Don't forget Bush and the bailout during the election. All painted with the same brush and the paint used is called tyranny.
My statement was "All Osama bin Laden was, was a middleman between operational units and the money-men in the Golden Chain".
Are you asserting that Osama has the ability to issue orders to the money men, who operate at the highest levels of Middle Eastern society? I don't think so.
The Golden Chain operates as the venture capital group to Osama's start-up, al Queda. In order to receive funding, he needs to convince them that his operational ideas are sound, and will accomplish the objectives that the money men may desire.
The money men were comfortable dealing with Osama because he was one of them, a son of the wealthy and connected bin Laden family. His tour of duty in Afghanistan made him accepted among the operational people he had met. He was thus an acceptable conduit for the money, making sure that it went to people who would actually do things, rather than stash it away in bank accounts.
But he's in a subordinate relationship to the money men, without whose funding al Queda dries up. He may have had a hand in getting them together in a group, but he does not issue orders to its members.
My former tagline was:
“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to preserve their liberty deserves the tyrant that rules them “ SP
The Golden Chain, created in 1988, was basically closed down with the discovery of Al Qaeda material in the Bosanska Idealna charity office in Sarajevo prior to 9/11. In fact, the Chain was basically out of business when Al Qaeda called a meeting of allies that met at a Paris Hotel in 1995 at which Bin Laden principles begged for funds.
The publication of the Golden Chain memorandum scared the hell out of the Bin Mahfouz, Rajhi, Amoudi and other wealthy families. Then, the United States sent treasury officials to confer with the Saudis, and though the royals did nothing obvious to attack support for Islamist mujahideen, they warned the names listed on the Chain that the US would monitor their banking activity forever. Most Gulf plutocrats who admitted privately that they had supported the Bin Laden effort in the Balkans, Chechnya and Tajikistan, had already ended their support following the destruction of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Next, the trial transcript on the embassy bombers was available online and circultated widely in Saudi Arabia, and the information provided also scared friends of Bin Laden. It was another indication that it was very dangerous to support Bin Laden and the other Islamists. And so it remains to this day. E.g., a minor Saudi prince disappeared earlier this year; he was rumored to have funded the Al Qaeda in Iraq.
That’s also a gem. I too believe that nations get the government they deserve.
BS.
The King of Saudia Arabia has been the most loyal ally we could ever have asked for. He allowed our troops, surveillance and spy equipment to be housed on Saudi soil for the entire length of the Cold War, no matter what turmoil and protests it caused against him.
There are thousands of Saudi princes and off-spring and they come all political types, but the King is and has always been America's greatest friend.
Read the news bitch!
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