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On May 22, 12:16 am, "First. Post"
<OccupiersDumberThanD...@invalid.net> wrote:
> Criminal Denialists Felonly Theft of Emails And Subsequent
> Overblown Rhetoric Heralded As Great Breakthrough By Islamic
> Terrorists And Other Friends of The Climate Change Denial
> Movement
>
> And who can blame them, given that many of them were
> relegated to the fringe years ago?
>
> I suspect that most mainstream media will not buy the
> overblown rhetoric. After all, it is ridiculous to assert
> that stolen emails from a few climate scientists somehow
> refutes decades of research by thousands of experts.
>
> Rightists are in league with our fundamentalist Islamic
> terrorist enemies by standing against the continued
> development of high tech alternatives to their shamless
> addiction to muslim oil.   It is the so-called Libertarians
> and socialist Conservatives who are the biggest threat
> because they kow tow and pander to their oil conglomerate
> masters, they are slaves.   Oil Man deposed despot George W.
> Bush held hands while on long romantic walks with Saudi King
> Abdullah, allowing them free passage from the USA on 9/11,
> despite how the attackers that day were Saudis.    Radical
> rightist Republican Senator James Inhofe has received over $1
> million in "donations" from the oil industry in return for
> his support of Muslim terrorism and the subsequent death of
> American soldiers caused by AGW denial and support of Islamic
> oil.    The right is against choice and freedom, demanding
> that we continue on the course of unsustainable oil gluttony;
> mainly because they are fat and shiftless, with tiny brains
> and low I. Q.s.
>
> Fueling Terror
>
>  "...the hijackers, 15 hijackers who are Saudis, they studied
>  this thinking --
> destructive thinking -- in Saudi Arabia. They spent a few
> months in Afghanistan.
> But they lived their life, they studied this in government
> mosques. [..] Government curriculum inspired what happened in
> New York." - PBS interview with Ali Al-Ahmed, executive
> director of the Saudi Institute  Much has been reported about
> the complex system of terrorist financing and the money trail
> facilitating the September 11 terror attacks. Individuals and
> charities from the Persian Gulf--mainly from Saudi
> Arabia--appear to be the most
> important source of funding for terrorist organizations like
> Al-Qaeda. According
> to an October 2002 Council on Foreign Relations report of an
> Independent Task Force on Terrorist Financing, Osama bin
> Laden and his men have been able to accumulate millions of
> dollars using legitimate businesses such as charities,
> nongovernmental organizations, mosques, banks and other
> financial institutions to help raise and move their funds.
>
> How does it work? Take Saudi Arabia for example. This Gulf
> monarchy is a rentier
> state in which no taxes are imposed on the population.
> Instead, Saudis have a religious tax, the zakat, requiring
> all Muslims to give at least 2.5 percent of their income to
> charities. Many of the charities are truly dedicated to good
> causes, but others merely serve as money laundering and
> terrorist financing apparatuses. While many Saudis contribute
> to those charities in good faith believing their money goes
> toward good causes, others know full well the terrorist
> purposes to which their money will be funneled.
>
> What makes penetration and control of money transactions in
> the Arab world especially difficult is the Hawala system--the
> unofficial method of transferring
> money and one of the key elements in the financing of global
> terrorism. The system has been going for generations and is
> deeply embedded in the Arab culture. Hawala transactions are
> based on trust; they are carried out verbally leaving no
> paper trail.
>
> The Saudi regime has been complicit in its people's actions
> and has turned a blind eye to the phenomenon of wealthy
> citizens sending money to charities that in turn route it to
> terror organizations. Furthermore, Saudi government money
> funneled into madrassas where radical anti-Americanism is
> propagated has been instrumental in creating an ideological
> climate which generates terrorism. Former CIA director James
> Woolsey described the Saudi-sponsored Wahhabism and Islamist
> extremism as "the soil in which Al-Qaeda and its sister
> terrorist organizations are flourishing."
>
> Barrels and bombs
> It is no coincidence that so much of the cash filling
> terrorists' coffers come from the oil monarchies in the
> Persian Gulf. It is also no coincidence that those countries
> holding the world's largest oil reserves and those generating
> most of their income from oil exports, are also those with
> the strongest support for radical Islam. In fact, oil and
> terrorism are entangled. If not for the West's oil money,
> most Gulf states would not have had the wealth that allowed
> them to invest so much in arms procurement and sponsor
> terrorists organizations.
>
> Consider Saudi Arabia. Oil revenues make up around 90-95% of
> total Saudi export earnings, 70%-80% of state revenues, and
> around 40% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). In
> 2002 alone, Saudi Arabia earned nearly $55 billion in
> crude oil export revenues. Most wealthy Saudis who sponsor
> charities and educational foundations that preach religious
> intolerance and hate toward the Western values have made
> their money from the petroleum industry or its subsidiaries.
> Osama bin Laden's wealth comes from the family's construction
> company that made its fortune from government contracts
> financed by oil money. It is also oil money that enables
> Saudi Arabia to invest approximately 40% of its income on
> weapons procurement. In July 2005 undersecretary of the
> Treasury Stuart Levey testifying in the Senate noted ?Wealthy
> Saudi financiers and charities have funded terrorist
> organizations and causes that support terrorism and the
> ideology that fuels the terrorists' agenda. Even today, we
> believe that Saudi donors may still be a significant source
> of terrorist financing, including for the insurgency in
> Iraq."
>
> If Saudi Arabia is the financial engine of radical Sunni
> Islam, its neighbor Iran is the powerhouse behind the
> proliferation of radical Shiite Islam. Iran, OPEC?s second
> largest oil producer, is holder of 10 percent of the world?s
> proven oil reserves and has the world?s second largest
> natural gas reserve. With oil and gas revenues constituting
> over 80 percent of its total export earning and 50 percent of
> its gross domestic product, Iran is heavily dependent on
> petrodollars. It is a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism and
> supporter of some of the world?s most radical Islamic
> movements such as the Lebanese Hizballah. Iran?s mullahs are
> fully aware of the power of their oil. Its supreme leader
> Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned in 2002: ?If the West did not
> receive oil, their factories would grind to a halt. This will
> shake the world!? As the world?s demand for oil increases,
> Iran grows richer --Iran?s oil revenues have jumped 25
> percent in 2005?and more than able to snub the U.S. and its
> allies in their efforts to prevent Tehran from developing
> nuclear weapons.
>
> The line between the barrel and the bomb is clear. It is oil
> wealth that enables
> dictatorial regimes to sustain themselves, resisting
> openness, progress and power sharing. Some semi-feudal royal
> families in the Gulf buy their legitimacy from the Muslim
> religious establishment. This establishment uses oil money to
> globally propagate hostility to the West, modernity,
> non-Muslims, and women. This trend is likely to continue.
> Both the International Energy Agency and the Energy
> Information Agency of the U.S. Department of Energy currently
> project a steady increase in world demand for oil through at
> least 2020. This means further enrichment of the
> oil-producing countries and continued access of terrorist
> groups to a viable financial network which allow then remain
> a lethal threat to the U.S. and its allies.
>
> Drying the swamp
> There are many strategies proposed by counter-terrorism
> experts to obstruct terrorist financing. Many of them are
> effective and, indeed, some of the steps that have been taken
> since September 11, such as freezing bank accounts and
> improving the scrutiny over international monetary transfers,
> contributed to a reduction in Al-Qaeda's financial
> maneuverability. But the only way to deal with the problem
> strategically is to reduce the disposable income and wealth
> generation capacity of terrorist supporters.
>
> Hence, America's best weapon against terrorism is to decrease
> its dependency on foreign oil by increasing its fuel
> efficiency and introducing next-generation fuels. If the U.S.
> bought less oil, the global oil market would shrink and price
> per-barrel would decline. This would invalidate the social
> contract between the leaders and their people and stem the
> flow of resources to the religious establishment. It will
> likely increase popular pressure for political participation,
> modernity and reformed political and social institutions.
>
> Reducing demand for Middle East oil would force the
> petroleum-rich regimes to invest their funds domestically,
> seek ways to diversify their economies and rethink their
> support for America's enemies. Only then financial support
> for terrorism could radically diminish.

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