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   Right Wing condoned Felonious Theft of Emails And Subsequent Overblown   
   Denialist Rhetoric Heralded As Great Breakthrough By Islamic Terrorists And   
   Other Friends of The Terrorist Loving Climate Change Denial Movement   
      
   And who can blame them, given that many of them were relegated to the fringe   
   years ago?   
      
   I suspect that most mainstream media will not buy the overblown rhetoric. After   
   all, it is ridiculous to assert that stolen emails from a few climate   
   scientists somehow refutes decades of research by thousands of experts.   
      
   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   
      
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