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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (254083)6/12/2008 2:54:17 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 793883
 
Yes to an extent we are getting in to semantics, and the definition of terrorism and funding of terrorism.

But if your talking about direct or very close indirect* government funding of groups generally considered terrorist groups it looks like no one else is even close.

* By very close indirect I mean something like Iran giving money to Syria with the intention and result that it gets passed along to a terrorist group. I would not includes something like a Saudi citizen receiving a check from the government as a pay check or a check from a contract or as some government program, with the government not directing it to terrorism, but with the recipient donating those funds to some terrorist group or some radical Islamic group which in turn funds terrorism.

The ideological civilian bombings around the world are funded more by the Saudis [I guess].

Directly and by the government? I don't think so. By rich Saudi individuals? Well here you have a better case, but for example OBL hasn't been in Saudi for years and I believe couldn't go there openly without being arrested. If Bill Gates sold his MS stock, moved to Pakistan and started to fund terrorism would that mean that "the US is sponsoring terrorism"?

Also I don't think the contributions by Saudi individuals directly to terrorist groups, closely approach what Iran gives to terrorist groups. Although to the extent that some group like Hezbollah uses weapons and funds from Iran to attack military targets, you get back to the issues about the definition of terrorism.
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