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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
11. I agree 100%
Tue Feb 17, 2015, 09:01 PM
Feb 2015

Plus Saudi Arabia has long financed & pushed Wahabbi ideology going back years & IS is the result of that.

Terror financiers are living freely in Qatar, US discloses

Two of al-Qaeda’s most senior financiers are living with impunity in Qatar despite being on a worldwide terrorism blacklist, the American official in charge of sanctions has disclosed.

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Qatar has huge investments in Britain — including such landmark businesses as the Shard skyscraper — and yet at the same time is apparently condoning jihadist financiers operating out of the Gulf.

The two Qataris — Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy and Abd al-Rahman bin Umayr al-Nuaymi — are living in Doha, the country’s capital, and are free to go as they please, according to David Cohen, the US Treasury under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11233407/Terror-financiers-are-living-freely-in-Qatar-US-discloses.html

Wealthy investors in Qatari, Kuwait, & Saudi Arabia is where it is all coming from.

IS is praying, hoping, begging Obama to take the bait... randys1 Feb 2015 #1
and the band played on. Rhinodawg Feb 2015 #2
The Sauds certainly aren't. Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #3
The shia government of Iraq brought it on themselves JonLP24 Feb 2015 #8
That might be true, but the question was when were the sauds going to step up Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #10
I agree 100% JonLP24 Feb 2015 #11
This is not our fight Cali_Democrat Feb 2015 #4
I completely agree with you. cwydro Feb 2015 #5
He was very friendly to the Sunni population JonLP24 Feb 2015 #12
I agree. bigwillq Feb 2015 #7
Yep, agree. greytdemocrat Feb 2015 #9
That coalition deaniac21 Feb 2015 #14
burning question DustyJoe Feb 2015 #6
IS ethnically cleansing Shia JonLP24 Feb 2015 #13
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