{"id":292563,"date":"2017-01-31T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=292563"},"modified":"2017-05-15T01:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T00:15:10","slug":"al-qaeda-funded-royal-sauds-u-s-govt-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/al-qaeda-funded-royal-sauds-u-s-govt-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Qaeda Funded by Royal Sauds, U.S. Gov\u2019t. Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, supplemented from original post at strategic-culture.org<\/a><\/p>\n

The chief source of funds to Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups is Saudi Arabia\u2019s royal family.<\/p>\n

Documentation comes from testimony of the captured top Al Qaeda financial operative to a U.S. Court; and from testimony cited in the \u2018missing 28 pages\u2019 of the congressional investigation into 9\/11; and from private communications of a U.S. Secretary of State.<\/p>\n

These documents cover Al Qaeda\u2019s finances, not only pre-9\/11, but up through at least 2014, and they consistently indicate that \u2014 throughout at least this lengthy period \u2014 the royal Saud family provided the essential funds that enabled Al Qaeda\u2019s global operations, including the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

Al Qaeda isn\u2019t merely an extension of the Sauds\u2019 Sunni-fundamentalist Wahhabist-Salafist jihadist beliefs, but every one of Al Qaeda\u2019s members also receives a \u201csalary\u201d and is therefore a mercenary who is fighting for a cause that he not only believes in, but also receives his livelihood from.<\/p>\n

Unlike many court cases, where some of the reliable evidence conflicts with other of the reliable evidence, all of the reliable evidence in this case is consistent: that the royal family of Saudi Arabia, the Saud family, have been the indispensable financial backers for Al Qaeda, and that Al Qaeda could not have succeeded as it has, without this money.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, during the 1990s when Saudi King Fahd was in such ill health that the Saud family and Wahhab clergy were considering which of the Saud Princes were worthy of being in contention to become appointed as Fahd\u2019s replacement, they requested and received from Al Qaeda\u2019s chief, Osama bin Laden, a letter which was entirely private but was generally assumed to be providing his advice on that matter. The key passage about it, from the U.S. courtroom testimony<\/a> was:<\/p>\n

Q Do you have any understanding why in that context Osama bin Laden would have been sending letters to both members of the royal family and the senior ulema [the religious scholars]?<\/i><\/p>\n

A: My understanding from talking with people like Abu Basir al-Wahishi who become the \u2014 the head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, who I used to be close to, okay, or Halad or Shaykh Abu Hasan, Shayk Mujahideen, Shaykh Aman, and Shaykh Abul Sef \u2014 my understanding [was] that they \u2014 they want[ed] to know who they should support [to be the next King].<\/i><\/p>\n

The following presentation of the evidence will start with the later period, and then will move backward in time, to the testimony from Al Qaeda\u2019s financial chief (who just now was quoted) \u2014 the man who had collected all of the large cash donations to Al Qaeda until 9\/11, and to his ultimate capture in the United States, on 16 August 2001, and prompt life-imprisonment, thus to hide him (and his testimony) from the American public, as much as possible, so that the Sauds\u2019 role would not become known:<\/p>\n

THE EVIDENCE<\/b><\/p>\n

I:\u00a0 17 August 2014.<\/b><\/p>\n

As\u00a0Liz Goodwin and Michael Isikoff noted on 11 October\u00a02016<\/a>\u00a0regarding a wikileak:<\/p>\n

The Clinton\u00a0email\u00a0states: “We need to use our diplomatic and more\u00a0traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the\u00a0governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are\u00a0providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL\u00a0and other radical Sunni groups in the region.\u201d<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

NOTE IN CLARIFICATION: \u201cISIL\u201d has been the U.S. government\u2019s preferred term for ISIS. The Sauds prefer that it be called \u201cDaesh.\u201d Kamel Daoud<\/a> headlined in The New York Times<\/i>, on 20 November 2015, \u201cSaudi Arabia, an ISIS that Has Made It\u201d<\/a>, and he said that ISIS isn\u2019t actually much different from Saudi Arabia, and that, \u201cThe West\u2019s denial regarding Saudi Arabia is striking.\u201d He reminded Americans: \u201cDaesh has a mother: the\u00a0invasion of Iraq. But it also has a father: Saudi Arabia and its religious-industrial complex.\u201d All of that is true. Yet, Saudi Arabia, whose \u201cgovernment\u201d (as Clinton noted) sponsors Al Qaeda, isn\u2019t \u2018an enemy\u2019 of \u2018the U.S.\u2019; but, instead, is \u2018a U.S. ally\u2019 \u2014 and its<\/i> enemies, Russia and Iran, are \u2018America\u2019s enemies\u2019 \u2014 or so the American aristocracy<\/i> says<\/i>. (America\u2019s aristocracy determines which countries are \u2018our\u2019 enemies and we\u2019ll invade, such as when we invaded Iraq on 20 March 2003. Whether or not the American public should believe what the American aristocracy says is a different matter, but the American public did<\/i> believe the American aristocracy and its agents, prior to invading Iraq at that time, so as to eliminate \u2018Saddam\u2019s WMD\u2019 \u2014 but actually to eliminate Saddam Hussein himself<\/i>.)<\/p>\n

This email\u00a0from Hillary Clinton,\u00a0https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/podesta-emails\/emailid\/7243<\/a>, was sent by her on 17 August 2014<\/b>. Consequently, even more than a decade after the 9\/11 attacks, \u2018our\u2019 \u2018allies\u2019 were still<\/i> financing \u201cISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.\u201d And Hillary Clinton wasn\u2019t saying this to the public; she was saying it privately, to a longtime friend \u2014 so the assertion wasn\u2019t mere pretense from her. In fact, she was telling this to her soon-to-be Presidential campaign manager, John Podesta.<\/p>\n

Any reference to the Saudi government<\/i> (such as Ms. Clinton mentioned there) is a reference to the Saudi royal family<\/i>, the Sauds, who own<\/i> the Saudi government \u2014 it\u2019s their fiefdom<\/a>. She was actually referring to the Sauds, and to their retainers (including the bin Ladens). She was referring to the royals, and the rest of their<\/i> aristocracy.<\/p>\n

II: 30 December 2009.<\/b><\/p>\n

I reported on 17 February 2016<\/a>\u00a0that:<\/p>\n

On <\/i>30 December 2009<\/i><\/b>, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a cable (subsequently\u00a0<\/i>released to the public by wikileaks<\/i><\/a>) to America\u2019s Ambassadors in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Pakistan, headlined, <\/i>\u201cTerrorist Finance: Action Request for Senior Level Engagement on Terrorism Finance.\u201d<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

It said:<\/p>\n

\u201cDonors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni\u00a0terrorist groups worldwide.\u201d<\/i><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

She told those Ambassadors to make clear to each of the given nation\u2019s aristocrats that, under the new U.S. President, Barack Obama, there would no longer be any allowance for continuation of their donations to Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups that attack the United States.<\/i><\/p>\n

It opened, <\/i>\u201cThis is an action request cable,\u201d<\/i><\/b> meaning that the operations of the local U.S. Embassy in the given nation would be monitored for compliance with the Secretary of State\u2019s \u201crequest.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Despite her assertion, there was no accountability, at all; yet she continued to complain in private about the Sauds\u2019 financing of terrorist groups.<\/p>\n

This was the situation in 2014 and in 2009, a decade and more after the 9\/11 attacks. But those attacks in 2001 had actually been funded by the Royal Sauds<\/i>. So, here was the situation prior<\/i> to 9\/11:<\/p>\n

III: pre-9\/11.<\/b><\/p>\n

Osama bin Laden\u2019s former bagman \u2014 the individual who prior to 9\/11 had personally picked up each one of the million-dollar-plus donations (all in cash) for Al Qaeda (which financed the operation until the 9\/11 attacks occurred) \u2014 said in a U.S. court hearing, \u201cWithout the money of the \u2014 of the Saudi, you will have nothing\u201d<\/a>. He also said that all Al Qaeda members were paid \u201csalaries\u201d from those donations \u2014 in other words, that this is why<\/i> \u201cyou will have nothing\u201d without their money: it\u2019s a mercenary operation, albeit one that is rigorously based upon the Quran, utterly devout in the Sauds\u2019 Wahhabist, fundamentalist Sunni, faith (which is called \u201cSalafist\u201d outside<\/i> of Saudi Arabia; thus, ISIS, for example, is Salafist).<\/p>\n

On 11 February 2015, I headlined\u00a0“Al Qaeda\u2019s\u00a0Bookkeeper\u00a0Spills The\u00a0Beans\u201d<\/a>,\u00a0which provided the most detailed and authoritative account ever of this huge cash operation pre-9\/11, the account by the man who actually collected the money;<\/i> and I reported there further, with links to the U.S. court-testimony documentation<\/i>, that:<\/p>\n

Zacarias Moussaoui<\/i><\/b><\/a> was the\u00a0bookkeeper and bagman\u00a0(money-collector) for Al Qaeda,\u00a0but the U.S. intelligence\u00a0services have been keeping\u00a0this fact secret as much as\u00a0they can, because what he\u00a0knows about the crucial\u00a0financial backers of Al Qaeda\u00a0can be very damaging to the\u00a0U.S. aristocracy, which is\u00a0heavily oil-based and closely\u00a0allied with the Saudi royal\u00a0family, which created Al Qaeda\u00a0in order to please the Saudi\u00a0clerics, who are Wahhabist\u00a0Muslims who constantly\u00a0threaten the royals with\u00a0exposure of their economic and\u00a0sexual corruption unless the\u00a0royals finance the spread of the\u00a0Wahhabist sect (such as by Al\u00a0Qaeda), and thereby finance\u00a0the spread of those clerics\u2019 own\u00a0international influence and\u00a0power.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Or, so says the former\u00a0bookkeeper of Al Qaeda, who\u00a0was selected by Al Qaeda\u2019s\u00a0military chief, Abu Hafs (also\u00a0known as\u00a0\u201cMohammed Atef\u201d),\u00a0to serve Osama bin Laden in\u00a0that capacity: Zacarias\u00a0Moussaoui. This is his\u00a0testimony, in brief.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Moussaoui swore to the court, that he collected multimillion-dollar cash donations to Al Qaeda from \u201cWaleed \u2014\u00a0Waleed bin Talal,\u00a0Prince\u00a0\u2014 Prince\u00a0Turki Al Faisal\u00a0Al Saud, Prince \u2014\u00a0Prince\u00a0Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud,\u00a0Prince Mohammed Al Faisal Al\u00a0Saud\u201d<\/i><\/b> and other Saudi royals. Prince Bandar, also known as \u201cBandar Bush,\u201d was the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. on 9\/11, and was documented in \u2018the missing 28 pages\u2019 to have been paying at least two of the 9\/11 hijackers<\/a>. Bandar was crucial<\/i> to the 9\/11 operation; so, he and his entourage (who were helped by Bush and Cheney in this) escaped from the United States promptly after the 9\/11 attacks. Bandar later organized Al Qaeda\u2019s leadership<\/a> \u2014 via \u2018Al Nusra\u2019, or the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda<\/a> \u2014 of the collective efforts by dozens of Arab-funded jihadist groups (including at least one sarin-gas attack)<\/a>, to overthrow and replace the existing government of Syria, since that government is allied with both Iran and Russia \u2014 both of which countries the Saud family hate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

IV: other pre-9\/11 evidence.<\/b><\/p>\n

On 10 September 2016,\u00a0I reported on<\/a>\u00a0\u2018the missing 28 pages\u2019, which were actually 29 pages, which were kept secret \u2014 they were expurgated actually, from the congressional study on the origin of the 9\/11 attacks \u2014 and I noted then that:<\/p>\n

what that document actually\u00a0showed, and proved (and cited\u00a0FBI investigators who could\u00a0then have testified in public, if\u00a0requested), was the opposite of\u00a0unimportant: that the Saudi\u00a0Ambassador to the United\u00a0States, Prince Bandar bin\u00a0Sultan al-Saud (who was\u00a0known in Washington as\u00a0\u201cBandar Bush,\u201d because of his\u00a0closeness to the Bush family),\u00a0had secretly been paying the\u00a0Saudi handlers of at least two\u00a0of the 15 Saudis among the 19\u00a09\/11 hijackers, and that\u00a0Bandar\u2019s wife and other\u00a0relatives were also paying\u00a0those hijackers-to-be, and their\u00a0families\u00a0\u2014 thus enabling the\u00a0future hijackers to obtain the\u00a0necessary pilot-training etc.,\u00a0for the 9\/11 attacks.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The reason why those 29 pages were hidden from the public for 13 years, and were misrepresented in the press as being insignificant when they finally were released, is that that portion of the 9\/11 Commission\u2019s report was the one which dealt with the financing behind the 9\/11 attacks. In other words: it dealt with the high-level people who were really behind 9\/11 \u2014 the people whom the U.S. aristocracy protected.<\/p>\n

CONCLUSIONS<\/b><\/p>\n

American citizens get the death penalty on far less, and far less-reliable<\/i>, evidence than has already been published about Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, and even about a few other Sauds (and some key Americans, who also cooperated with him and them).<\/p>\n

Why, then did U.S. President Barack Obama, though oath-bound to the U.S. Constitution and to the American people, veto a bill that Congress finally passed allowing the 9\/11 families to sue the Saudi government \u2014 the Saudi royal family \u2014 for 9\/11<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Whom was Obama protecting, and why? Did anyone publicly ask this question of him? Why not?<\/p>\n

A PERTINENT NOTE: This same person, Obama, who protected the Sauds (like Bush did), said as follows about the non<\/i>-sectarian, separation-of-church-and-state committed, anti<\/i><\/b>-jihadist, leader of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, whom the U.S. and Saudi governments backed Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups in Syria in order to overthrow<\/a>: As the Wall Street Journal<\/i> headlined on 19 November 2015, \u201cObama Says Syrian Leader Bashar al-Assad Must Go\u201d<\/a>, and they reported Obama\u2019s argument: \u201cIt is because it is unimaginable that you can stop the civil war here when the overwhelming majority of people in Syria consider him to be a brutal, murderous dictator. \u2026 He cannot regain legitimacy.\u201d The slick liar Obama said that Al Qaeda in Syria and other such jihadists (whom he called \u2018moderate rebels\u2019) there should overthrow Assad (and would presumably be more \u2018legitimate\u2019 there) and that this would end the war there. But, in reality, even Western-sponsored polls consistently showed that Assad is the only person in Syria whom more than 50% of the Syrian people actually want to be their leader<\/a>, and that the U.S. itself is loathed there because it is viewed by 82% of Syrians<\/a> as being to blame for the tens of thousands of jihadists who have been imported into Syria (paid for by the Sauds and militarily trained by the Americans) causing immeasurable misery there for the Syrian people. The investigation by Mint Press News found that, \u201cMore than a dozen rebels interviewed reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government.\u201d<\/a> (This was consistent with what Moussaoui had said.)<\/p>\n

Obama was (though never officially<\/i>) a Saudi agent<\/a>. Why are American Presidents impeached for extramarital sex but not for being traitors and for supporting America\u2019s actual enemies, against the interests of the 9\/11 victims and of the rest of the American people \u2014 as Presidents George W. Bush<\/a> and Barack Obama were? Is America\u2019s government against the interests of the American people? If so,\u00a0whom does it really<\/i> represent<\/a>? And why<\/a>? And why are these facts (the evidence that\u2019s avaliable at the links here) not being reported on television and in the newspapers, but only in online-news sites such as this? And why are not official lies called<\/i> \u201clies\u201d (except partisanly \u2014 by Democrats and Republicans only against each other \u2014 instead of<\/i> by the mainstream press against both<\/i>)?<\/p>\n

And why is Zacarias Moussaoui<\/a> still<\/i> not allowed to speak, in public, to the American people, and to the global public?<\/p>\n

Why is all of this crucially important news \u2014 now become history \u2014 still being hidden<\/i>? Why are such crucial truths about 9\/11 still news, even long after they have become (hidden from the general public as being<\/i>) history<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Perhaps it\u2019s because some of America\u2019s \u2018allies\u2019 being America\u2019s enemies is not merely<\/i> history, it is even today\u2019s reality<\/i>. It\u2019s not in the news \u2014 not being commonly reported<\/i> as today\u2019s reality. It\u2019s still being hidden. Though the proofs for it are solid, and convicts receive the death penalty on far less \u2014 and less-solid \u2014 evidence, it is still being ignored.<\/p>\n

And, as I reported earlier, \u201cBush Knew 2001 Terror-Attack Was Imminent and Wanted It\u201d<\/span><\/a>. It was an inside-job. The Sauds couldn\u2019t have done it without cooperation from Bush. He demanded not to know when it would happen; he demanded to be kept uninformed of its details, as it was being planned and set afoot. Ignorance was his excuse, but it wasn\u2019t really part of any explanation<\/i> for what happened on 9\/11.<\/span><\/p>\n

PS: Saudi Arabia also produces more suicide-bombers than any other country<\/a>. But, of course, given that nation\u2019s aristocracy, and their clergy<\/a>, that too makes sense. And 15 of the 19 9\/11 jihadists were Saudi subjects (Saudi Arabia is a feudal kingdom, no democracy, so it has \u201csubjects,\u201d instead of \u201ccitizens\u201d). And, on 27 January 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump banned immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority nations, none of which had been involved in any terrorist attacks in the U.S.<\/a>, and none of which were allies of Saudi Arabia, which was overwhelmingly the chief source of Islamic terrorism both in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Trump-banned countries are: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Basically, Trump chose the most-anti-Saudi of the Islamic-majority nations, and he ignored not only Saudi Arabia, but also the other main sources of jihadism against the U.S: Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Pakistan<\/a>. Maybe Trump, too, is a Saudi agent.<\/p>\n

There were 19 hijackers on 9\/11: 15 Saudi, 2 UAE, 1 Egypt, and 1 Lebanon<\/a>. Trump\u2019s order ignored<\/i> all four nations. His order focused more against the Shiite-led countries, Iran and Syria, whose leaderships the Saud family are (with U.S. government assistance) trying to overthrow and replace.<\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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