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If people are so worried about the root causes of terrorism, I have one suggestion. Perhaps talk like this has something to do with it.
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Last month, an attack on contractors at the Saudi oil facility in Yanbu killed six Westerners, two of them Americans. Senior Saudi officials told the world al-Qaida terrorists were to blame and al-Qaida claimed responsibility.
But tape obtained by NBC News reveals that, inside Saudi Arabia, on Saudi television, Crown Prince Abdullah told a strikingly different story about who was to blame.
NBC News translated Abdullah's remarks from Arabic: “Zionism is behind it. It has become clear now. It has become clear to us. I don’t say, I mean... It is not 100 percent, but 95 percent that the Zionist hands are behind what happened.”
Other senior Saudi officials reaffirmed the claim that supporters of Israel — Zionists — were behind the terror attacks.
Prince Nayef, the Saudi Interior Minister said, “Al-Qaida is backed by Israel and Zionism.”
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Until the Saudis change their ways, we're going to continue to have well-funded terrorists throughout the world. Four years since 9/11 and we're still hearing and seeing this sort of garbage from the Saudis?
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But the report complains that members of the Saudi elite who’ve allegedly financed al Qaida remain free and unpunished, including Yassin al Qadi — specially designated as a “global terrorist” by the U.S. Treasury Department.
According to William Wechsler, former National Security Council member and co-author of the Council on Foreign Relations report, “They have yet to arrest or incarcerate anybody publicly. And if you don’t take those actions then you can’t have deterrence.”
Qadi has repeatedly denied giving money to al-Qaida.
A Saudi spokesman claims that five men have been prosecuted for funding terrorism — they just weren’t publicly named.
As for the alleged Saudi doublespeak, a Saudi official in the United States defends the remarks, arguing that Zionists and others who argue for regime change in Saudi Arabia “share the same objective as Osama bin Laden.”
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So, apparently, they can't stop funding Osama bin Laden's organization because that would be sharing the "same objective as Osama bin Laden?" I think their doublespeak is starting to run around in circles.
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