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Arabia
Saudi Arabia, Qatar funding extremism: British commander
2014-10-09
[Iran Press TV] A former British commander in Iraq says that Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
are accountable for globally spreading extremism.

In a recent interview with The Telegraph, General Jonathan Shaw said that both of the Arab states have ignited a "time bomb" by funding extremism that has triggered the rise of the ISIL.

Britannia's former Assistant Chief of the Defense Staff went on to say that the two countries have spent billions of dollars on funding Wahhabi and Salafist krazed killer groups.

Shaw also said Qatar and Saudi Arabia's rulers, who are now more threatened by their creation than any other countries, must lead an ideological struggle against the ISIL terrorists.

The former commander also referred to the current military campaign against the ISIL as "futile" unless the underlying Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
ideology was also directly tackled.

"It (this ideology) is funded by Saudi and Qatari money and that must stop," he added.

The US and its allies, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar and Jordan, have been conducting Arclight airstrikes against the ISIL inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate for over two weeks.

According to a report published by The Telegraph, wealthy individuals in the Persian Gulf region have raised tens of millions of dollars for terrorist groups. The report also says Arab leaders have either chosen to ignore the problem or are complicit in the funding of the holy warriors in Syria and Iraq.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Oh look, the sky IS blue. You see the damndest things with your eyes open.
Posted by: mossomo   2014-10-09 15:16  

#2  They gonna make him apologise like Biden had to?
Posted by: AlanC   2014-10-09 06:51  

#1  Yea, we know.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-10-09 01:30  

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