"Islamic charities from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates financed a network in U.S. ally Pakistan that recruited children as young as eight to wage holy war, a local newspaper reported on Sunday, citing Wikileaks.
A U.S. diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks said financial support estimated at $100 million a year was making its way from those Gulf Arab states to a jihadist recruitment network in Pakistan's Punjab province, Dawn newspaper reported."
Showing posts with label Dubai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dubai. Show all posts
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
US allies funded insurgency in Iraq
Nibras Kazimi: "America’s allies are directly implicated, as financiers, ideologues, orchestrators and managers, in the deaths of American soldiers. I hope this is not glossed over by those now privy to this information. Without this money, it seems to me, the insurgency would have been crippled early on, even with Sunni resentment at fever-pitch. The money made the nightmare of the last eight years possible. It was also eye-opening for me to realize that squabbles over money, as it began to peter out, had a very big deal to do why the insurgency could never coalesce into a whole."
Egypt, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, perhaps?
Egypt, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, perhaps?
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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