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| Saudi Arabia responsible for 50 percent of Hamas budget | ||
| 2003-09-17 | ||
| Saudis have come under fresh scrutiny lately by US and European investigators in Riyadh and in Israel for their political and financial support of the Hamas movement, according to the New York Times. We’ve noticed, it’s almost like somebody is turning up the heat on them. Now who would do a thing like that? A few months ago, Khalid Mishaal, a top Hamas leader took part in a charitable fund-raising conference in Riyadh where he spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Went right to the top of the money tree. In its Wednesday edition, the newspaper said that according to a summary of the meeting written by a Hamas official, Mishaal and other Hamas representatives thanked their Saudi hosts for continuing "to send aid to the people through the civilian and popular channels, despite all the American pressures exerted on them." "This is indeed a brave posture deserving appreciation," the Hamas officials said, according to the document. I like documents. Today, Mishaal, who was recently added to the US Treasury Department list of what it terms "terrorist financiers," controls a wing of Hamas that supports attacks against Israel, including suicide bombings. They have a wing that doesn’t?
How big of them. "It’s a ridiculous accusation; no Saudi government money goes to Hamas, directly or indirectly," the paper quoted Adel al-Jubeir, the foreign affairs adviser to Saudi Prince Abdullah, as saying. "Why on earth would we not stop this kind of funding? Why on earth would our crown prince say we do not want to support Hamas and then allow people to do this under the table?" Humm, because you’re a bunch of liars?
Better tell Hamas to quit writing thank you notes then. | ||
| Posted by:Steve |
| #7 Just 50%? Who says the War on Terror hasn't been effective? I figured they'd already picked up Sammy's slack since he got knocked out of the picture, which would kick it up to, what, 99.9%? Gotta support those martyrs widows, orphans, brothers, sisters, parents, kittens, puppies, hookers, etc. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-9-17 12:04:11 PM |
| #6 The royal money is paid in casino chips... |
| Posted by: seafarious 2003-9-17 11:38:46 AM |
| #5 SOG475---I do not know about your figures, but we sure should have dumped Saudi Arabia in 1973-4 during the embargo. You can sure count the tree huggers as the bad guys in preventing us from obtaining new local sources of oil. The left talks about alternative sources of energy, getting rid of SUVs, etc etc [remember NIMBY, though]. But they have NOTHING to offer but pie in the sky. Alot of the "posterboy" pictures of ANWR are in the Brooks Range mountains and not on the coastal plain. Propaganda. The oil companies are proposing building ice roads and pads in winter for exploration drilling. In the summer the tundra has minimal damage after the ice pad or road melts. Directional drilling technology eliminates many extra drill pads. There are some wells on the Kenai peninsula now that they are going out 3.5 miles diagonally. The left is trying to create an energy crisis, it seems to me. The sooner we dump Saudi, the cleaner our hands will be. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-9-17 11:28:41 AM |
| #4 No government money -- just the "royal" family's! Of course, in a despotic kingdom, it's sometimes hard to tell the difference... It's easy to tell the difference. The government money is in the left pocket, the royal money is in the right. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-9-17 11:17:44 AM |
| #3 When dealing with the Saudis or any other muslim, you have only to ask ONE question. 'Are you a true believer'? If the queried answers 'yes', you know exactly where you stand as kufir [unbeliever]. They will after that always lie to you. So I would say whatever they denounced is indeed a lie/lies. |
| Posted by: quark2 2003-9-17 10:19:53 AM |
| #2 "It’s a ridiculous accusation; no Saudi government money goes to Hamas, directly or indirectly," the paper quoted Adel al-Jubeir, the foreign affairs adviser to Saudi Prince Abdullah, as saying. No government money -- just the "royal" family's! Of course, in a despotic kingdom, it's sometimes hard to tell the difference... |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-9-17 10:06:42 AM |
| #1 I personnally think that Saudi Arabia is in full fledged civil war by the end of 2004. They cannot play this game with the terrorists and the Wahabis successfully forever. As time goes on, the duplicity of the Saudis becomes more evident. The only reason we play ball with them is because the liberals and the tree huggers in the US won't let us drill in ANWR. The American Petroleum Institute has stated on the record that the CLinton Administration deliberately understated the estimated oil reserves in ANWR by a factor of 100. The API has exploration records from Chevron, et. al., that indicate there may be HUNDRED OF BILLIONS of barrels of oil under ANWR. Also, a viable oil industry in Iraq would reduce our dependence on the Saudis. I believe that Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria are behind most of the sabotage of the oil pipelines in Iraq. The Saudis in particular know we will tell them to go pound sand if we had an alternate source of oil. I also know that the Saudis are scared s***l*ss over the effects that a working democracy in Iraq would have on their population and their ability to continue to rule like a bunch of over indulged children. |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-9-17 9:56:34 AM |