Posted: Jul 2, 2008, 12:31 PM CST
WhatUwish4 wrote:I disagree about his rushing into war, which I outlined about a page or two ago.
And neither you nor I know what went on behind closed doors with the prince, or whether or not Bush addressed him on this matter. I won't pretend to know it all and neither should you. However, it does occur to me that there is such a thing as diplomatic relations and perhaps getting the prince to safety was one of those things. Sometimes, whether we like it or not, it pays to shut up.
Well, I know the King's and Prine's of Saudi were the Bush family's long time friends and oil supplier.
Wouldn't want to go to war on them since they were supplying, no matter what the human right violations.
There is like 100,000 links that say Saudia Arabia is still allowing individuals to sponsor al-queda with millons of dollars six years after
9/11.
Despite six years of promises, U.S. officials say Saudi Arabia continues to look the other way at wealthy individuals identified as sending millions of dollars to al Qaeda.
"If I could somehow snap my fingers and cut off the funding from one country, it would be Saudi Arabia," Stuart Levey, the under secretary of the Treasury in charge of tracking terror financing, told ABC News.
Despite some efforts as a U.S. ally in the war on terror, Levey says Saudi Arabia has dropped the ball. Not one person identified by the United States and the United Nations as a terror financier has been prosecuted by the Saudis, Levey says.
"When the evidence is clear that these individuals have funded terrorist organizations, and knowingly done so, then that should be prosecuted and treated as real terrorism because it is," Levey says.
Among those on the donor list, according to U.S. officials, is Yasin al Qadi, a wealthy businessman named on both the U.S. and U.N. lists of al Qaeda financiers one month after the 9/11 attacks.
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