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Title: Saudi Arabia, the United States, and the Special Terror Relationship
Published: 2017-02-20
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THY4LF7P8os
Title: Saudi Arabia, the United States, and the Special Terror Relationship
Published: 2017-02-20
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THY4LF7P8os
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I'm February tenth Donald trump's CIA director Mike Pompeo travel to Riyadh toward the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef the George tenet medal for his quote unquote intelligence work in the fight against terrorism this is rather ironic considering the role of the Saudis have played in spreading their version of violent Wahabi salafists Islam around the world Pompeii owes gesture signals that nothing will change in Washington2/37
with the election of a new president who promised to reform intelligence during the election trump alluded to a Saudi connection to nine eleven but this was merely campaign trail rhetoric last year federal election commission record showed trump planned to establish a business in Jeddah trump is on friendly terms with the Saudis in two thousand and one he sold the forty fifth floor of the trump world3/37
tower to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia for four point five million dollars prior to this in nineteen eighty five Osama bin laden's half brother Shafik bin laden paid an eight thousand five hundred dollars security deposit for an apartment in the trump tower during the election trump promised to change the direction of US foreign policy but said little about the supposed special relationship between the US and4/37
Saudi Arabia the current relationship began with FDR in the nineteen thirties and by the end of the second World War the U. S. had established an oil for security agreement with the kingdom in nineteen forty five the chief of the state department's division of near eastern affairs said that the oil resources of Saudi Arabia are a quote unquote stupendous source of strategic power and one of5/37
the greatest material prizes in world history I'm guiding principle in Iran goes venture has been the belief that foreign capital cannot justify its presence in any land unless it operates in the interest of that land won't even begin support has been the mutual trust and good will that I'm grown up between the American oilmen and the Saudi Arab government plus American venture capital is developing new6/37
standards of right ancient Rome where people with a glorious past now building a glowing future there partners from the other side of the world special relationship special useful in the CIA effort to take down secular regimes beginning with Nasser in Egypt they offered financial backing and sanctuary to the Muslim Brotherhood he documented CIA and British intelligence assets the Saudis exploited the special relationship to export its7/37
Wahhabi brand of Islam between nineteen seventy five in two thousand and three the Saudi government spent over seventy billion dollars building mosques and religious schools around the world private Saudi citizens spend billions more on why hobby projects charities such as the Muslim World League and its affiliate the international Islamic relief organization or headed up by Saudi government officials and closely tied to the government propaganda and8/37
indoctrination by the Wahabi sect against infidels and branding other Muslims as apostates and an emphasis on jihad has lead to radicalization and terrorism in many ways the Saudi government is far more dangerous to the United States than Osama bin laden because they pay for a type of I have religious education among many sections of the American Muslim community that preaches pure hatred for Jews for America9/37
for for Christians for democracy if we're looking for the real opponents of how we live and how we think it's not Osama bin laden it's the Saudi government and they they pay enormous amounts of money around the world to educate young Muslims with that kind of of %HESITATION I attitude your groups the US says it's fighting against are directly influenced by Wahhabi is in these include10/37
al Qaeda Islamic state al Nusra and dozens of other groups what help I'm the most fun idea haiku almost one moot one must wonder how must move shotgun because I double Kelly McCann and hug him mostly that you need to allow soprano what I WD two up muscles on the local IT you ID was send them yeah but what in the heck I left well I11/37
didn't do without whom must apply to me boom within one minute involved little for unity ash to him more than he he I do one law he wanted to welcome the diplomatic cable authored by secretary of state Hillary Clinton released by wikileaks in two thousand and ten reveals the U. S. knew the Saudis are behind the support and financing of international terrorism there's a early two12/37
thousand fourteen now from Hillary Clinton so not so long option with secretary of state to her campaign manager from protest our that email it states %HESITATION that I sold isis is %HESITATION funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar and that this is a I actually I think this is the most significant Imao in the whole collection are and perhaps because13/37
studying Qatari money is spread %HESITATION all over the place include including its many media institutions all serious analysts neither are even the US government's %HESITATION has mentioned or gore agreed with that some Saudi figures I've been supporting ISIS funding isis Clinton said it's an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorists financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority during the election Clinton demanded14/37
the Gulf emirate stop funding terrorism starters it is long past time for the Saudis got a reason the Kuwaitis and others to stop their citizens from funding extremist organization and they should stop supporting radical schools and mosques around the world that have set too many young people on a path toward extremism often mentioned is the fact the Clinton foundation took money from the very states she15/37
accused of funding terror Saudi Arabia gave between ten million and twenty five million dollars to the foundation at least one million more was donated by friends of Saudi Arabia which was co founded by a Saudi prince she also oversaw the sale of weapons to the Saudis while at the state department one quick search through the Clinton foundation's website and you'll find yourself a long list of16/37
donors ranging from the average Joe donating just two hundred fifty dollars or less all the way north of twenty five million dollars and everywhere in between look a little closer and you'll see donations and heads of state from authoritarian regime nation with standing human rights abuses countries like Saudi Arabia who donated between half a million to a million dollars to the Clinton foundation just weeks before17/37
she was sworn in found themselves with huge arms deals with the Clinton state department the Saudis were able to purchase advanced fighter jets from Boeing a deal worth nearly thirty billion dollars the Gulf nation donated nearly ten million dollars for the foundation leading up to Clinton taking the job as secretary of state other nations include Kuwait the United Arab Emirates Oman Qatar and Algeria just to18/37
name a few Clinton didn't mention the fact the CIA is largely responsible for the growth of Salafist terror groups most notably in Afghanistan when the U. S. work covertly to expel the Soviets in the nineteen eighties both the Afghan Arabs later al Qaeda and the Taliban were created from the ranks of the mujahideen financed by Saudi Arabia and the CI a it's estimated the CIA spent19/37
around three billion dollars on the covert war in Afghanistan total the Saudis and its partners in the Gulf would spend around forty billion dollars on the effort it was later discovered much if not most of the money was skimmed off and held that the Tories sleep corrupt BCC I one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War was America's role in supporting Afghan warlords20/37
known as the mujahideen the official story is that America back these fundamentalists in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December nineteen seventy nine but that's not true it was six months before the Soviet invasion in July of that year the president Jimmy Carter authorize five hundred million dollars to help set up the mujahideen a terrorist organization the American people were completely unaware that their21/37
government together with the pretty secret service MI six had begun training and funding Islamic extremists including Osama bin laden out of this came the Taliban al Qaeda and September the eleventh president Jimmy Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was largely responsible for organizing the Cold War he went to Pakistan in nineteen seventy nine to urge on the mujahideen to launch a decade long war U. S.22/37
National Security Advisor Brzezinski flew to Pakistan to set about rallying resistance he wanted to harm the mujahedin without revealing America's role on the Afghan border near the Khyber pass he urged the soldiers have gone to redouble their efforts we know of their deep belief in god yeah we are confident that their struggle will succeed the rates among the but I stopped docile humble someone on here23/37
note that land over there is yours you'll go back to it one day it does your fight will prevail and you'll have your homes your mosques back again because your cause is right god is on your side in two thousand and sixteen while appearing before a subcommittee of the house Appropriations Committee Clinton admitted the United States created the mujahideen subsequently the Taliban and al Qaeda I24/37
mean let's remember here the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago and we did it because we were locked in this struggle with the Soviet Union they invaded Afghanistan and we did not want to see them could troll Central Asia and we went to work at it was president Reagan in partnership with the Congress %HESITATION led by Democrats who said you know what25/37
selling pretty good idea let's deal with the I. aside in the Pakistani military let's go recruit these mujahideen and it's great let's get some to come from Saudi Arabia and other places importing their Wahabi brand of Islam so that we can go beat the Soviet Union and what guess what they retreated they lost billions of dollars and it led to the collapse of Soviet Union so26/37
there's a very strong argument witches wasn't a bad investment and the Soviet Union but let's be careful what we sold because we will harvest December is reported Saudi Arabia is still funding the Taliban despite insisting otherwise in the nineteen nineties the Saudis and Pakistanis made secret deals with the Taliban and Osama bin laden CIA and Pakistan's I S. I gave the Taliban access to tens of27/37
thousands of weapons left over from the Soviet Afghan war to supply tens of thousands of soldiers in nineteen ninety seven the Saudis Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates officially recognize the Taliban government the Saudis would later obstructive effort by the U. S. to investigate bin laden and his activities in Afghanistan prior to the attacks of September eleventh two thousand and one they also protected bin laden28/37
and did interfere with al Qaeda's effort to raise money recruited trained operatives and establish cells throughout the kingdom in nineteen ninety six during a meeting monitored by French intelligence Asadi said they plan to reward bin laden for his efforts to spread Wahhabi Islam in Chechnya Kashmir Bosnia and other places two thousand and fifteen Zacarias Moussaoui the so called twentieth nine eleven hijacker claimed that members of29/37
the Saudi royal family had supported al Qaeda as part of a civil case that was brought against the Saudis by the nine eleven families was sorry one so far as to name specific members of the Saudi royal family who had donated money to the terrorist group evidence the Saudis fund the Islamic state service in two thousand and sixty when wikileaks released an email between John Podesta30/37
and Hillary Clinton in the August two thousand and fourteen email Clinton said diplomatic pressure should be brought down on the Qataris and Saudis to stop them from assisting the Islamic state there is no another from the latest release of hacked emails from wikileaks Hillary Clinton from August of two thousand fourteen claiming to U. S. allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar were funding and supporting ISIS quote saying31/37
in part to any amount of president Obama's then counsel jump at us that we need to use our diplomatic in more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to Iceland other radical Sunni groups in the region and quot the United States has also been accused of supplying the terror army two thousand32/37
and fifteen a report issued by Amnesty International found that most of the Islamic state's weapons came from the United States while the NGO says equipment was looted and taken from Iraqi military forces other reports say military supplies were airdropped isis jihadi group posted a video online showing a cache of weapons like I've got it what does it look adult omitting lily W. vigilance the Pentagon said33/37
the airdrop bundle had inadvertently drifted into isis territory evidence Saudi Arabia has bankrolled indoctrinated trained and lavishly funded terror groups for decades has fallen on deaf ears the special relationship has never really been seriously challenged or endangered when Obama said he planned to sell billions of dollars worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia few in Congress complained the Saudis need weapons to replenish their arsenal you step34/37
bombing neighboring Yemen into the stone age an illegal war enabled by the United States why do you want to block this weapon sell the constitution gave the power to initiate or declare war to Congress we are now at war in Yemen in a way we are refueling Saudi America Saudi Arabian Amer's in the air and we are picking their targets that sounds to me like we're35/37
involved in a war and yet no one has consulted Congress to ask our permission for the Saudis the election of Donald Trump represents business as usual mostly because he's targeting Iran trump considers Yemen an important battleground in its war against Iran start of his administration he authorized a commando raid on a village in Yemen that killed civilians including nine children under the age of thirteen for36/37
the establishment it's important to maintain the special relationship which is basically a marriage of murder and terror Israel and Saudi Arabia will remain the preferred clients in the Middle East Donald Trump will maintain the status quo he made that obvious when it released its list of terrorist countries the biggest and baddest sponsor of terror Saudi Arabia was not included for just a small subscription fee you37/37
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