The Saudi Connection to ISIS Terror
There are more important points in here than can be summed up in four paragraphs.
Besides the public admissions of our government officials of Saudi support for ISIS and just about every other Sunni terrorist group excerpted below, the article goes through the math on ISIS means of support other than from outside governments. It doesn't add up.
What this article treads on a bit lightly though is that ISIS is advancing our government's agenda in Syria by destabilizing Assad. And Washington didn't seem too worried about ISIS's bad acts when they were only in Syria and not yet in Iraq.
Also, any handwringing in Washington about ISIS atrocities is hardly sincere while we still arm and protect Saudi, the most oppressive, religious extremist regime in the world.
(On Thursday, in a hawkish speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Clinton, now the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, focused on her plan for military escalation, including a U.S. invasion of Syria to “impose no-fly zones” and secure what she called a “safe area.” But she added a brief and exasperated reference to the financial reality, saying: “once and for all, the Saudis, the Qataris and others need to stop their citizens from directly funding extremist organizations as well as the schools and mosques around the world that have set too many young people on a path to radicalization.”)
–Vice President Joe Biden’s remarkable admission at Harvard’s Kennedy School in October 2014 that “the Saudis, the emirates, etc. … were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war … [that] they poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of military weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad – except the people who were being supplied were Al Nusra and Al Qaeda.”
–Finally, in a front-page article on Friday, the Times belatedly acknowledged the devastating DIA report, a mere six months after it was made public by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. But even then, reporter Ian Fisher managed to leave out the most important part, which is that the Salafist stronghold that the Sunnis were seeking to establish is “exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition” – i.e. the West, the Gulf states, and Turkey – “want in order to isolate the Syrian regime.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/11/20/the-saudi-connection-to-terror/
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