Hillary Clinton leaked memo: Riyadh biggest funder of world extremist
Saudi Arabia is the sole
biggest funder of extremism in the world and is unwilling to cut off the
money supply, according to a leaked note from Hillary Clinton.
The former US Secretary of State says in a secret memorandum that donors in the kingdom still “constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide” and that “it has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority”.
In a separate diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, the militant group which carried out the Mumbai bombings in 2008, Lashkar-e-Toiba, is reported to have secured money in Saudi Arabia via one of its charity offshoots which raises money for schools.
Saudi Arabia is accused, along with Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, of failing to prevent some of its richest citizens financing the insurgency against Nato troops in Afghanistan.
Fund-raisers from the Taliban regularly travel to UAE to take advantage of its weak borders and financial regulation to launder money.
However, it is Saudi Arabia that receives the harshest assessment.
“In 2002, the Saudi government promised to set up a charities committee that would address this issue, but has yet to do so,” Clinton’s cable reads, before seeming to admit with disappointment that merely “obtaining Saudi acknowledgement of the scope of this problem and a commitment to take decisive action” has proved hard.
Saudi Arabia is also reported to be one of the biggest supporters of the war in Syria as well.
According to reports, both Saudi Arabia and Qatar are the most spenders of the deadly conflict in Syria which is aimed at changing the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
SHI/SHI
The former US Secretary of State says in a secret memorandum that donors in the kingdom still “constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide” and that “it has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority”.
In a separate diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, the militant group which carried out the Mumbai bombings in 2008, Lashkar-e-Toiba, is reported to have secured money in Saudi Arabia via one of its charity offshoots which raises money for schools.
Saudi Arabia is accused, along with Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, of failing to prevent some of its richest citizens financing the insurgency against Nato troops in Afghanistan.
Fund-raisers from the Taliban regularly travel to UAE to take advantage of its weak borders and financial regulation to launder money.
However, it is Saudi Arabia that receives the harshest assessment.
“In 2002, the Saudi government promised to set up a charities committee that would address this issue, but has yet to do so,” Clinton’s cable reads, before seeming to admit with disappointment that merely “obtaining Saudi acknowledgement of the scope of this problem and a commitment to take decisive action” has proved hard.
Saudi Arabia is also reported to be one of the biggest supporters of the war in Syria as well.
According to reports, both Saudi Arabia and Qatar are the most spenders of the deadly conflict in Syria which is aimed at changing the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
SHI/SHI
Added: Dec-3-2013 Occurred On: Dec-3-2013
By: AlAlam
In: Politics, Other Middle East
Tags: Saudi royal family, Saudi government, Takfiri extremists, Hillary Clinton, extremist cleric
Location: Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (load item map)
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By: AlAlam
In: Politics, Other Middle East
Tags: Saudi royal family, Saudi government, Takfiri extremists, Hillary Clinton, extremist cleric
Location: Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (load item map)
Views: 1294 | Comments: 127 | Votes: 1 | Favorites: 0 | Shared: 0 | Updates: 0 | Times used in channels: 2
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