Абырвалг wrote:lxf wrote:Абырвалг wrote:Ну на Садама уже давно косились, Саудия и Иордан важные деловые и стратегические партнери, с ними пока ссорится нельзя.
Т.е., как в другом анекдоте, ищем часы не там, где потеряли, а где светлей, да ?
Есть какие то данные что террористы 9/11 были финансированы или тренированы саудовским правительством?
The New York Times June 23, 2009 wrote:Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but the material may never find its way into court because of legal and diplomatic obstacles.
Internal Treasury Department documents obtained by the lawyers under the Freedom of Information Act, for instance, said that a prominent Saudi charity, the International Islamic Relief Organization, heavily supported by members of the Saudi royal family, showed “support for terrorist organizations” at least through 2006...
The documents provide no smoking gun connecting the royal family to the events of Sept. 11, 2001. And the broader links rely at times on a circumstantial, connect-the-dots approach to tie together Saudi princes, Middle Eastern charities, suspicious transactions and terrorist groups.
..classified section of the 2003 joint Congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks.. is believed to discuss intelligence on Saudi financial links to two hijackers, and the Saudis themselves urged at the time that it be made public. President George W. Bush declined to do so.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world ... saudi.html06/14/09 wrote:Yemeni security forces have arrested a Saudi man suspected of financing Al-Qaida cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday.
The official said that authorities captured "the biggest and the most influential" money provider for al-Qaida in Yemen and Saudi Arabia
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/1 ... 15403.htmlSaudi Royal Family Extensively Involved in Financing Al-Qaeda, Newly Revealed Government Documents Apparently Confirm
http://www.onepennysheet.com./?p=22366A large proportion of the funds that support al-Qaeda and other terror groups comes from within Saudi Arabia, many experts say, though not directly from Saudi leaders. "For years, individuals and charities based in Saudi Arabia have been the most important source of funds for al-Qaeda; and for years, Saudi officials have turned a blind eye to this problem," a Council on Foreign Relations independent task force report said. "Saudis fund al-Qaeda and are being attacked by al-Qaeda. They seem mutually exclusive but they're not," Levitt says. Much of the Saudi money may have been funneled to terrorism unknowingly, according to experts, because terror groups collect funds under the guise of Islamic charities and schools
http://www.cfr.org/publication/7740/sau ... a.html#p10Figure 8 represents a complicated web of financial transactions encompassing Osama bin Laden,
Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups as well as the Saudi Arabian government and military. For
example, the Saudi government donated money to an interpreter for one of the 1993 World Trade
Center bombing masterminds. Another person linked to that plot was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,
Siddiqui’s boss. The Saudi military also provided money to Saudi citizens who lived at the same
apartment as Siddiqui, possibly as her roommates.
See Figure 8 and others here:
http://www.fmsasg.com/News/PressRoom/diamonds.pdfChicago Tribune August 27, 2004 wrote: In the years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the government of Saudi Arabia "turned a blind eye to the financing of Al Qaeda by prominent religious and business leaders and organizations," according to the most comprehensive study of terrorist financing ever made public.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-121353566.htmlThe Center for Security Policy (CSP), a Washington think tank, will calculate in 2003 that, between 1975 and 2002, the Saudi government spends over $70 billion on international aid. More than two thirds of the money goes to Islamic related purposes such as building mosques and religious schools. This money usually supports Wahhabism, a fundamentalist version of Islam dominant in Saudi Arabia but far less popular in most other Islamic nations. CSP scholar Alex Alexiev calls this “the largest worldwide propaganda campaign ever mounted” in the history of the world. In addition, private Saudi citizens donate many billions more for Wahhabi projects overseas through private charities. Some of the biggest charities, such as the Muslim World League and its affiliate, the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), are headed by Saudi government officials and closely tied to the government. The IIRO takes credit for funding 575 new mosques in Indonesia alone. Most of this money is spent on benign purposes with charitable intentions.
Founded in 1976, Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt (FIBE) was part of the banking empire built by Saudi Prince Mohammed al-Faisal. Several of the founding members are leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the “Blind Sheikh,” Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman. The growth of Islamic banking directly funds the political growth of the Islamist movement, and allows the Saudis to pressure poorer Islamic nations, like Egypt, to shift their policies to the right. The Islamic banking boom is closely associated with the neoliberal free-trade philosophy of the Chicago School of Economics, and with the free-trade prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund, and with conservative think-tanks like the Virginia-based Islamic Free Market Institute. FIBE is also closely associated with the infamous Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which will found to be deeply implicated in the illegal arms and narcotics trades, and with the funding of terrorist organizations when it collapses in 1991.
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline. ... 1_timelineBefore 2001, al-Qaeda operated with an annual budget of about $30 million, supplied largely through Persian Gulf charities. Some money was intended for al-Qaeda and some was diverted from other sources.
After the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa, al-Qaeda took much of its funds off the books, relying instead on the trust-based hawala banking system in use in parts of the Muslim world, particularly in Dubai and Pakistan.
Source:The 9-11 Commission Final Report, July 22, 2004, Chapter 5.4