How can we differentiate between enemies and friends like Saudis. King Fahd is dead. Frank Gaffney provides analys in the Washington Times:
. . . old Saudi games
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
August 2, 2005Within days of the murderous September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, President Bush declared before a joint session of Congress: "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
Unfortunately, under the leadership of King Fahd (actual or nominal), Saudi Arabia demonstrated it was possible to be with us and with the terrorists. Far from being regarded as a hostile regime, the U.S. has described the Saudi government as a valued "partner" in the war on terror, notwithstanding abundant evidence it continues to harbor and support terrorism around the world -- including inside the U.S.
Indeed, under Fahd, whose death was officially announced Monday (although he has been effectively incapacitated for years following a severe stroke), the Saudis perfected their double game: simultaneously being considered in Washington as a friend of America while behaving all over the world as a supporter and financier of America's enemies. [link]It is true the Saudi royal family has lately become more concerned about its hold on power in the face of terror attacks inside the kingdom. Such concerns may produce more mutuality of interests with the United States on countering terrorist operations within Saudi Arabia. Even there, however, the transparency has been limited, as with, for example, U.S. access to terror suspects in Saudi custody.
Far more important is the litany of things the Saudis have done -- and continue doing -- that encourage and enable terrorism against those (Muslim and non-Muslim alike) who do not embrace the ideology of the Saudi Islamofascist cult known as Wahhabism. A short list of these unfriendly activities includes:
c? Financial, organizational, logistical and other support for terrorists like Osama bin Laden. While the Saudi leadership doesn't want any more al Qaeda attacks inside the Kingdom, there is reason to believe at least some of the 5,000 princes think underwriting its attacks elsewhere is the best way to prevent them at home.
• Founding and running Wahhabi Islamofascist hate-factories in mosques and their associated schools (madrassas) all over the world. The Saudi-financed madrassas of Pakistan got a lot of attention after British authorities identified them as places where the Leeds suicide bombers trained. [link]A superb study released in January by Freedom House documented that the Saudi government also uses American mosques -- by some estimates 80 percent have mortgages held by Saudi Arabian financial institutions -- to promote jihad. Materials officially produced and disseminated to such mosques by the kingdom are filled with calls to hate Christians and Jews. Those who fail to conform are threatened with violent punishment as apostates. Saudi-trained and -selected clerics serve as enforcers in our mosques and in prisons and the military as recruiters for a rabidly anti-American Wahhabi creed.
• Since the Saudi-engineered oil price spikes of the 1970s, the Saudis have also spent untold sums (they acknowledge some $80 billion spent in "foreign aid"; the actual total is surely far higher) building a worldwide infrastructure of charities, businesses and front organizations. In the wake of the London bombings, several of these Saudi-backed front organizations have found it necessary to issue fatwas in Britain and the United States purporting to denounce terror.
As noted terrorism expert Stephen Emerson has reported (www.investigativeproject.org/FCNA-CAIR.html), however, some of these groups and those associated with them have been prominent supporters of -- or, at the very least, apologists for -- terrorist organizations. For example, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which organized a press conference to promote the U.S. version of the phony fatwa: No fewer than four of its associates have been convicted of providing financial or other forms of material support to terrorists. [link]It is no small irony the new Saudi ambassador to the United States exemplifies his country's double game on terrorism: Prince Turki al-Faisal. For roughly 25 years, Turki was in charge of Saudi Arabia's intelligence operations. He was intimately familiar both with his country's efforts to promote Wahhabism (including supporting bin Laden's operations in Afghanistan) and its counterterrorism cooperation with the United States.[link]
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy and a columnist for The Washington Times
posted by: jrtelegraph
The Saudis are a massive fraud. They know they can take advantage of the West's tolerance in order to undermine its civilization. There's a reason why the Saudis don't try any of their underhanded ploys against the Chinese, even though the Chinese treat Muslims worse than most other countries. Why? Well, if the Saudis tried a 9-11 against China, the Chinese would act accordingly and invade Saudi Arabia, kill off a large portion of their population, and occupy their oil fields. No nonsense and no fooling around.
Political Correctness will kill us sooner than these stone-age savages.
Posted by: Leonidas | August 03, 2005 at 12:48 PM