In my email:
> Subject: The Secret War
> < Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002
>
> John Loftus, a former federal prosecutor and author of several books,
> including The Secret War Against the Jews (a documented incredible
> must-read that they tried to ban in several countries and the US, by the
> way), is currently president of the Florida Holocaust Museum. He has
> instituted a lawsuit that he claims will expose the Saudi-funded
> terrorist network in Florida and elsewhere. Loftus, by the way, is an
> Irish-Catholic.
>
> Loftus's press release about his lawsuit follows below. You not only
> should read this, but you should pass it on. It's an incredible tale.
>
> For Immediate Release
>
> Lawsuit to expose federal cover-up of Saudi-funded terrorist net in
> Florida
>
> The following is a statement by John Loftus:
>
> For 20 years, I have served without compensation as a lawyer for federal
> whistleblowers within the US intelligence community. In the last year, I
> have received highly classified information from several of my
> confidential clients concerning a Saudi covert operation. The Saudi
> relationship is so sensitive that, for more than a decade, federal
> prosecutors and counter-terrorist agents have been ordered to shut down
> their investigations for reasons of foreign policy.
>
> I am filing a lawsuit in Hillsborough County Court to expose the manner
> in which Florida charities were used as a money laundry for
> tax-deductible terrorism. The complaint cites specific testimony,
> including highly classified information which has never been released
> before.
>
> Simply put, the Saudi Government was laundering money through Florida
> charities run by the University of South Florida - Tampa Professor Sami
> Al Arian for the support of terrorist groups in the Middle East. Through
> the Al Arian network and others, the Saudi Government secretly funded Al
> Qaida, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
>
> The Saudi purpose was twofold: the destruction of the State of Israel and
> the prevention of the formation of an independent Palestinian State.
>
> Two particular terrorist groups, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad,
> were specifically chosen and funded by the Saudis for their willingness
> to undermine Arafat's Palestinian Authority. The secret Saudi goal was to
> create such animosity between Israel and the Palestinian Authority that
> it would wreck any chance for the creation of an independent Palestinian
> State.
>
> Their tactics specifically called for the intimidation or murder of those
> Palestinians who were willing to work with Israel for peace. To put it
> bluntly, the covert Saudi network in Florida funded the murders of fellow
> Muslims for the crime of wanting to create the first democratic Arab
> State.
>
> Whatever harm the Israelis may have done, they did build an excellent
> public education system, including several universities, for the benefit
> of their Palestinian neighbors. That was the problem:
>
> * While literacy in the Arab world is below 50%, in Israel it is 97%.
>
> * Israel is the only place in the Middle East where an Arab woman can
> vote.
>
> * After 50 years, Israel has created the first Arab class exposed to
> democracy, literacy and western values.
>
> To the Saudis, a democratic Palestinian nation would be a cancer in the
> Arab world, a destabilizing example of freedom that would threaten Arab
> dictators everywhere. As King Fahd said, "Next to the Jews, we hate the
> Palestinians the most." The harder the Israelis and Palestinians worked
> for peace, the more money King Fahd poured into his murder for hire
> program.
>
> The Saudi Government has already begun its spin operations, claiming that
> this terror network was a rogue operation financed by a radical Saudi
> businessman without the support or knowledge of the Saudi Government.
>
> The truth is that many of the Saudi princes, notably Prince Bandahar and
> Prince Alwaheed, are good and loyal friends of America who want to lead
> Saudi Arabia into the modern world. Unfortunately, they are now in the
> minority in their own country. King Fahd is on his death bed, and his
> nephew and heir apparent, Crown Prince Abdullah depends on the most
> radical southern and eastern clans for his political base.
>
> The southern faction is the center of popular support for Al Qaida and
> the Taliban, because it is the home of the most extreme Muslim sect, the
> Wahabbis. Ninety-nine percent of the Muslim world rejects the Wahabbi
> religious tenets as utterly repugnant to the teachings and examples of
> the Prophet as written down in the Hadith. Since most Wahabbis are
> functionally illiterate, they cannot read about this conflict on their
> own.
>
> Typically, they memorize a few passages of the Koran taken out of
> context, and never read the accompanying Hadith for explanation. For
> example, the Wahabbis are taught by rote that Jews are subhuman who
> should be killed as a religious duty. In contrast, the Hadith explains
> that the prophet Mohammed honored Jews, married a Jewish wife, forbade
> forced conversions of Jews, always bowed in respect when a Jewish funeral
> passed, and promised that good and faithful Jews would go to Paradise
> just as good Muslims and Christians would, and that the Jews would have
> their Holy Place in the West (meaning Jerusalem) while Muslims would have
> their Holy Place in the East (meaning Mecca).
>
> Illiteracy is a weapon of oppression. The Saudis, and their Wahabbis, the
> Taliban, have decreed that women cannot work or even sit in the front
> seat of a car. In contrast, the Hadith records that the Prophet worked
> for his wife, and that she drove her own caravans in international
> commerce.
>
> The Prophet forbade racism, the Wahabbis practice it, especially against
> their non-Arab Shiite minority.
>
> The Wahabbis (both in Saudi Arabia and the Taliban) discriminate
> viciously against women. The Prophet, who lovingly raised three
> daughters, insisted that women should have substantially equal rights in
> contract, ownership and divorce.
>
> The Muslim faith envisioned by the Prophet in the Koran and recorded by
> his contemporaries in the Hadith is a religion that practices tolerance
> towards all races and religions, stresses the extreme importance of
> literacy and education, and elevates the status of women to unprecedented
> levels in many societies. This is the gentle, peaceful Muslim faith
> practiced everywhere in the world, except in Saudi Arabia and the Taliban
> provinces of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
>
> Muslim scholars speak derisively about the primitive Wahabbi apostasy,
> but rarely in public. The reason for this deafening silence is simple:
> Most Mosques in the world are impoverished and depend upon Saudi
> subsidies for their operation. In return, however, the Saudis have gained
> a foothold for proselytizing and radicalizing the Muslim youth through
> religious education in the form of militant Wahabbism. Children learn to
> hate because they are being taught that way.
>
> The Saudis dabbled with funding anti-Semitic hate groups as a means of
> breaking down American support for Israel. After the fall of communism,
> the Saudis took over funding the most militant terror organizations for
> direct attacks against Jewish and Palestinian supporters of the peace
> process. Year after year, members of the intelligence community warned
> that a rising wave of terror was coming. [TEXT MISSING] something about
> terrorism, he was told to stop because it would embarrass the Saudi
> Government. John O'Neill quit his job as head of FBI counter-terrorism
> for the same reason. Jonathan Pollard went to jail.
>
> Federal agents in Tampa, who had known about the Saudi-Sami Al Arian
> connection since 1990, were ordered to drop the investigation in 1995.
> The Saudi influence-buying machine had effectively shut down any threat
> of criminal prosecution. Those Americans, including a former President,
> who lobbied for the Saudis have a lot to answer for. So do the Saudis.
> With the explosive growth of Al Qaida and their Taliban allies, the
> Saudis finally recognized that they had gone too far. As Osama Bin Laden
> laughingly related on videotape, he was approached prior to the attack on
> the twin Trade Towers by his relatives, who offered him $300,000,000 to
> cancel the operation.
>
> Apparently, the Bin Laden family really had not broken off all ties and
> knew exactly what was coming. So, my clients say, did the Saudis.
>
> Six months later, a much-chagrined Prince Abdullah belatedly announced
> that the Saudis would release the names of the terrorists whom their
> charities had unwittingly funded, but only in Somalia and Asia. The main
> Saudi charities in Herndon, Virginia, and the Al Arian network in Florida
> are still untouched.
>
> My clients are betting that the American influence peddlers hired by the
> Saudis will succeed once again in derailing a federal investigation. They
> came to me for help in exposing the cover-up. That is why I am filing
> this lawsuit. In the months to come, the American public may finally
> begin to learn why the Saudi-Sami Al Arian terror networks went untouched
> for so long. It wasn't an intelligence failure, it was a foreign policy
> failure. The orders were not to embarrass the Saudi government. Year
> after year, the cover-up orders came from the State Department and the
> White House.
>
> The CIA, the FBI, and the Justice Department just did what they were
> told. No one intended the harsh consequences of letting the Saudis get
> away with it again and again. Only after September 11, when the Treasury
> Department found the financial transactions linking the Saudi charities
> directly to Osama bin Laden, did American officials realize the extent of
> their betrayal.
>
> We are not alone in our grief and anger. Saudi money sabotaged every
> Israeli initiative to make peace. The bewildered Palestinians may finally
> realize that they have been stabbed in the back by an Arab brother.
>
> The rules have changed after September 11, but the bottom line remains
> the same: If we want to stop terrorism, we have to tell the Saudis to
> stop funding it.
>
> John Loftus |
