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| Moussaoui calls Saudi princes patrons of al-Qaida |
| 2015-02-05 |
| [TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] In highly unusual testimony inside the federal supermax prison, a former operative for al-Qaeda has described prominent members of 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... 's royal family as major donors to the terrorist network in the late 1990s and claimed that he discussed a plan to shoot down Air Force One with a Stinger missile with a staff member at the Saudi Embassy in Washington. The Qaeda member, Zacarias Moussaoui, wrote last year to Judge George B Daniels of United States district court for the Southern District of New York, who is presiding over a lawsuit filed against Saudi Arabia by relatives of those killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He said he wanted to testify in the case, and after lengthy negotiations with Justice Department officials and the federal Bureau of Prisons, a team of lawyers was permitted to enter the prison and question him for two days last October. In a statement Monday night, the Saudi Embassy said that the national September 11 commission had rejected allegations that the Saudi government or Saudi officials had funded al-Qaeda. "Moussaoui is a deranged criminal whose own lawyers presented evidence that he was mentally incompetent," the statement said. "His words have no credibility." Moussaoui received a diagnosis of mental illness by a psychologist who testified on his behalf, but he was found competent to stand trial on terrorism charges. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 and is held in the most secure prison in the federal system, in Florence, Colo. Moussaoui's accusations could not be verified. The allegations from Moussaoui come at a sensitive time in Saudi-American relations, less than two weeks after the death of the country's longtime monarch, King Abdullah, and the succession of a half-brother, King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... There has often been tension between Saudi leaders and the B.O. regime since the Arab uprisings of 2011 and the efforts to manage the region's resulting turmoil. Moussaoui describes meeting in Saudi Arabia with Salman, then the crown prince, and other Saudi royals while delivering them letters from the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... There has long been evidence that wealthy Saudis provided support for bin Laden, the son of a Saudi construction magnate, and Al Qaeda before the 2001 attacks. Saudi Arabia had worked closely with the United States to finance Islamic faceless myrmidons fighting the Soviet Army in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and al-Qaeda drew its members from those turban fighters. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 they've got a lot of princes. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-02-05 14:37 |
| #3 Hummmm, doughnuts. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-05 11:25 |
| #2 MAN! I love Cool Whip. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-02-05 03:19 |
| #1 "Shoot down Air Force One [POTUS + Staff, etal.] wid a Staff Member at the Saudi Embassy" > ***** cough *** cough ***** cough **** ... D *** NGED AM DONUT-WID-COOL-WHIP. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-02-05 01:06 |