Saudis financed terror ship

world net daily ^ | THURSDAY jan 17th

[classygreeneyedblonde]

Paid $10 million to Iran for arms destined for Palestinian intifada

The financing of the Karine-A arms-smuggling ship destined for the Gaza Strip came from Saudi Arabia – a shocking discovery made, according to intelligence sources, by all three teams investigating the affair: American, Israeli and Palestinian.

They established that Saudi sources put up the $10 million paid over to Iran for the weapons cargo, the $400,000 purchasing price for the vessel and another $1 million to cover miscellaneous expenses, such as hiring the crew, fuel, repairs and port charges.

The discovery rocked the U.S. and Israeli governments back on their heels. But, together with the Palestinians, each decided for its own reasons to treat the information as sensitive and keep it under wraps. For, more than any previous indication, this new fact is disturbing evidence of the uncertain internal situation in Saudi Arabia, demonstrating for the first time the willingness of influential figures in the royal house and Saudi intelligence to go out on a limb and back the Palestinian-Hezbollah-Iran connection.

Until now, Saudi Arabia was known to have refused financial aid to Yasser Arafat’s intifada, funding only the fundamentalist Hamas at its bases in Palestinian-controlled areas, Jordan and Syria.

Technically, the funds for the arms-smuggling operation were advanced by Muslim charitable societies in Jeddah, but investigators say no sums of any such scale could have been secreted out of the oil kingdom without the knowledge and consent of Saudi intelligence and government authorities – especially if they went through Abu Dhabi and Beirut.

Intelligence sources close to the investigation say that the Karine-A funding is nothing compared to the burgeoning transactions in train between Saudi Arabians and factions of the Iranian government and military intelligence. Saudi Arabians are now believed to have underwritten some of the costs entailed in transferring al-Qaida fighters from Afghanistan via Iran to safe havens in the Gulf.

[Catspaw]

Any wonder why Saudi Arabia wants US troops out of their country

Or why Prince Bandar (Saudi's ambassador to the US) hustled his tush back to Saudi last week.

[Catspaw]

Keep the Green & Gold until Sunday evening :-))

[classygreeneyedblonde]

I wonder how soon after we leave that saddam starts up

[Noumenon]

Saudis have three arms:

One to shake your hand.
One to lift your wallet.
One to stab you in the back.

They are not our friends. Saudi Arabia is a religious despotism impoverishing the majority of its people.

[TexanToTheCore]

I watch TV very rarely, but I have seen some of the Saudis talking on the subject of their relations with the US. There is a quiet sadness about them. I think they get it, that the gravy train is coming to an end. Saudi Arabia has not been able to generate much more businesses than the oil business and the economic fall out could be severe.

[toddst]

I would rather see the US buy oil from Russia as opposed to sending "foreign aid" and getting nothing in return. Oil is good - and the Saudis need to feel some pressure until they shape up.

[mikeIII]

It's time we took off the gloves with the Saudis. They have been financing too much of trouble around in the name of Islam. We should oblige them with their demands for removing our Military from there. Have at it, Saddam before we ...

[hobblemaster]

And how soon after that the Saudis start calling us back again. Let themfight their own war this time.

[TexanToTheCore]

One of W's attributes is that if a person or organization does not cooperate with him in good faith, he goes around them and uses other "suppliers". There seem to be many who don't understand this, including many Demorats. Cutting the Saudis out of the oil business would be very consistant with his overall approach. It's a beautiful thing....

[TexanToTheCore]

I would also look for trouble for Saudi students getting student visas. There will be long unfortunate delays. I think this is more serious than most of us know.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

The taliban the a'queada the hamas the plo and every other terrorists .......let them call them nexttime

[EternalHope]

Well, we all know what the one reason why they aren't on the terrorist harboring nations list.

The problem is NOT oil. All Saudi oil production could be shut down and the world would still have plenty.

The problem is Mecca. Mecca, the most "holy" site in the world, is in Saudi Arabia.

If Bin Laden & his friends can convince the Muslim world that the U.S. threatens Mecca, they believe all of Islam will unite against us.

BTW, the dems keep trying to condemn Bush for his experience in the oil industry, and his knowledge of Saudi Arabia. Besides living in the past so far as the world's oil supply is concerned, they seem to have never heard of Mecca. It would be easy to educate them if they were willing to learn, but I am not hopeful. The American people, on the other hand, seem quite happy to have someone who understands the situation in charge.

[EternalHope]

We have all known for a long time that Saudi Arabia was on the fence, at best.

However, if this story is true, the problem is much worse than I thought. We simply cannot allow this to continue, and I am sure Saudi Arabia knows this full well.

[Alouette]

[monkeyshine]

Bump FYI. The above is not a permanent ping list.

[NeoCaveman]

I wonder how soon after we leave that saddam starts up

Who cares? Saddaam can have it. The Saudi Royal Family can kiss my arse!

[Shermy]

Monkeyshines, you're playing some monkeyshines with that ping list! :)

[monkeyshine]

fyi bump

[Joee]

Right on, my friend! It's time that the US woke up to the point that our real allies are few and far between and many nations that we send aid too, would love to see us fold. China, as an example, will stab us in the back again and again when it suites their goals, and is currently do such almost daily..