Joshua Cook
September 19, 2014
On Sunday, the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he
was “extremely encouraged” by Saudi Arabia joining the U.S. coalition to fight
ISIS. But should Kerry be so enthusiastic? Despite overwhelming evidence to the
contrary, why does the U.S. government still consider Saudi Arabia to be our
ally?
According to former Secretary of State and potential U.S.
president candidate Hillary Clinton, ISIS has received funding from the Saudis.
Eight years after the terrorist attacks on September 11,
2001, Clinton, wrote in a cable leaked by WikiLeaks that “Saudi Arabia remains
a critical financial support base for al-Qaeda, the Taliban, LeT
(Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan) and other terrorist groups.”
Senator Bob Graham, the co-chairman of the official inquiry
into 9/11, has said the Washington has turned a blind eye to the Saudis
support.
“I believe that the failure to shine a full light on Saudi
actions and particularly its involvement in 9/11 has contributed to the Saudi
ability to continue to engage in actions that are damaging to the U.S. – and in
particular their support for Isis,”he
said.
The Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 has long been public knowledge since 15 out of 19 of the hijackers were Saudis, and the leader of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, was a member of the Saudi ruling elite. For financing, al-Qaeda relied on a core group of private donors and charities in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
Despite the Saudi connections of the 9/11 terrorists, Saudi
Arabia and its citizens were treated with extreme leniency. After air travel
was grounded, approximately 144 people were permitted to fly back to Saudi
Arabia within days of the attacks without even being questioned by the FBI.
The most noteworthy example of the United States protecting
Saudi Arabia is that those 28 pages about the country’s involvement in 9/11 are
still censored, even 13 years after the event.
Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, in their book The Eleventh
Day: The Full Story of 9/11, quote a senior American official, who saw the 28
pages before they were excised, apparently on the initiative of President Bush,
as saying: “If the 28 pages were to be made public, I have no question that the
entire relationship with Saudi Arabia would change overnight.”
The fundamental question is this: is America’s foreign
policy making us safer or making the world more dangerous?
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Further reading. The Roots of ISIS by Brandon Turbeville.
Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South
Carolina. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Francis Marion University and is the
author of six books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches
From a Dissident, volume 1and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria.
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