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   From: nuny@biz.nez   
      
   Gray Ghost  said stuff on 23 Jul   
   2010:   
      
   > Beam Me Up Scotty  wrote in   
   > news:Xns9DBDF3023F35E555@ 194.177.98.144:   
   >   
   >> Rightists are in league with our fundamentalist Islamic terrorist   
   >> enemies by standing against the continued development of high tech   
   >> alternatives   
   > to   
   >> their shamless addiction to muslim oil.   It is the so-called   
   > Libertarians   
   >> and socialist Conservatives who are the biggest threat because they   
   >> kow tow and pander to their oil conglomerate masters, they are   
   >> slaves.   Oil Man deposed despot George W. Bush held hands while on   
   >> long romantic walks with Saudi King Abdullah, allowing them free   
   >> passage from the USA on   
   > 9/11,   
   >> despite how the attackers that day were Saudis.    Radical rightist   
   >> Republican Senator James Inhofe has received over $1 million in   
   >> "donations" from the oil industry in return for his support of Muslim   
   >> terrorism and the subsequent death of American soldiers caused by AGW   
   >> denial and support of Islamic oil.    The right is against choice and   
   >> freedom, demanding that we continue on the course of unsustainable   
   >> oil gluttony; mainly because they are fat and shiftless, with tiny   
   >> brains and low I. Q.s.   
   >>   
   >> Fueling Terror   
   >>   
   >>  "...the hijackers, 15 hijackers who are Saudis, they studied this   
   >>  thinking --   
   >> destructive thinking -- in Saudi Arabia. They spent a few months in   
   >> Afghanistan. But they lived their life, they studied this in   
   >> government mosques. [..] Government curriculum inspired what happened   
   >> in New   
   > York." -   
   >> PBS interview with Ali Al-Ahmed, executive director of the Saudi   
   > Institute   
   >>  Much has been reported about the complex system of terrorist   
   >>  financing   
   >> and the money trail facilitating the September 11 terror attacks.   
   >> Individuals and charities from the Persian Gulf--mainly from Saudi   
   >> Arabia--appear to be the most important source of funding for   
   >> terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda. According to an October 2002   
   >> Council on Foreign Relations report of an Independent Task Force on   
   >> Terrorist Financing, Osama bin Laden and his men have been able to   
   >> accumulate millions of dollars using legitimate businesses such as   
   >> charities, nongovernmental organizations, mosques, banks and other   
   >> financial institutions to help raise and move their funds.   
   >>   
   >> How does it work? Take Saudi Arabia for example. This Gulf monarchy   
   >> is a rentier state in which no taxes are imposed on the population.   
   >> Instead, Saudis have a religious tax, the zakat, requiring all   
   >> Muslims to give at least 2.5 percent of their income to charities.   
   >> Many of the charities are truly dedicated to good causes, but others   
   >> merely serve as money laundering and terrorist financing apparatuses.   
   >> While many Saudis contribute to those charities in good faith   
   >> believing their money goes toward good causes, others know full well   
   >> the terrorist purposes to which their money will be funneled.   
   >>   
   >> What makes penetration and control of money transactions in the Arab   
   > world   
   >> especially difficult is the Hawala system--the unofficial method of   
   >> transferring money and one of the key elements in the financing of   
   >> global terrorism. The system has been going for generations and is   
   >> deeply embedded in the Arab culture. Hawala transactions are based on   
   >> trust;   
   > they   
   >> are carried out verbally leaving no paper trail.   
   >>   
   >> The Saudi regime has been complicit in its people's actions and has   
   > turned   
   >> a blind eye to the phenomenon of wealthy citizens sending money to   
   >> charities that in turn route it to terror organizations. Furthermore,   
   >> Saudi government money funneled into madrassas where radical   
   >> anti-Americanism is propagated has been instrumental in creating an   
   >> ideological climate which generates terrorism. Former CIA director   
   >> James Woolsey described the Saudi-sponsored Wahhabism and Islamist   
   >> extremism as "the soil in which Al-Qaeda and its sister terrorist   
   >> organizations are flourishing."   
   >>   
   >> Barrels and bombs   
   >> It is no coincidence that so much of the cash filling terrorists'   
   >> coffers come from the oil monarchies in the Persian Gulf. It is also   
   >> no coincidence that those countries holding the world's largest oil   
   >> reserves and those generating most of their income from oil exports,   
   >> are also   
   > those   
   >> with the strongest support for radical Islam. In fact, oil and   
   >> terrorism are entangled. If not for the West's oil money, most Gulf   
   >> states would   
   > not   
   >> have had the wealth that allowed them to invest so much in arms   
   >> procurement and sponsor terrorists organizations.   
   >>   
   >> Consider Saudi Arabia. Oil revenues make up around 90-95% of total   
   >> Saudi export earnings, 70%-80% of state revenues, and around 40% of   
   >> the country's gross domestic product (GDP). In 2002 alone, Saudi   
   >> Arabia   
   > earned   
   >> nearly $55 billion in crude oil export revenues. Most wealthy Saudis   
   >> who sponsor charities and educational foundations that preach   
   >> religious intolerance and hate toward the Western values have made   
   >> their money from the petroleum industry or its subsidiaries. Osama   
   >> bin Laden's wealth   
   > comes   
   >> from the family's construction company that made its fortune from   
   >> government contracts financed by oil money. It is also oil money that   
   >> enables Saudi Arabia to invest approximately 40% of its income on   
   >> weapons procurement. In July 2005 undersecretary of the Treasury   
   >> Stuart Levey testifying in the Senate noted ?Wealthy Saudi financiers   
   >> and charities have funded terrorist organizations and causes that   
   >> support terrorism and the ideology that fuels the terrorists' agenda.   
   >> Even today, we believe that Saudi donors may still be a significant   
   >> source of terrorist financing, including for the insurgency in Iraq."   
   >>   
   >> If Saudi Arabia is the financial engine of radical Sunni Islam, its   
   >> neighbor Iran is the powerhouse behind the proliferation of radical   
   > Shiite   
   >> Islam. Iran, OPEC?s second largest oil producer, is holder of 10   
   >> percent of the world?s proven oil reserves and has the world?s second   
   >> largest natural gas reserve. With oil and gas revenues constituting   
   >> over 80 percent of its total export earning and 50 percent of its   
   >> gross domestic product, Iran is heavily dependent on petrodollars. It   
   >> is a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism and supporter of some of the   
   >> world?s most radical Islamic movements such as the Lebanese   
   >> Hizballah. Iran?s mullahs are   
   > fully   
   >> aware of the power of their oil. Its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali   
   > Khamenei   
   >> warned in 2002: ?If the West did not receive oil, their factories   
   >> would grind to a halt. This will shake the world!? As the world?s   
   >> demand for   
   > oil   
   >> increases, Iran grows richer --Iran?s oil revenues have jumped 25   
   >> percent in 2005?and more than able to snub the U.S. and its allies in   
      
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