Friday, December 08, 2006
Fill up your SUV today, kill an American in Iraq tomorrow
You may not want to do so, but it looks like that is where the money spent on your gasoline is ending up. And the the folks in between are the good friends of Our Dear UnAmerican Leader and his evil vizier Crazy Dick Cheney, the Saudis. The AP has the known details.
Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.We are fighting mostly Sunni insurgents so the money comes from the Saudis. If we began to fight mostly Shia then the petro dollars would come from Iran. And if we turned around and left Iraq they would have a grand time fighting each other until they came to their senses in another 100 years or so. But they wouldn't be killing Americans and neither would you.
Saudi government officials deny that any money from their country is being sent to Iraqis fighting the government and the U.S.-led coalition.
But the U.S. Iraq Study Group report said Saudis are a source of funding for Sunni Arab insurgents. Several truck drivers interviewed by The Associated Press described carrying boxes of cash from Saudi Arabia into Iraq, money they said was headed for insurgents....
....Several drivers interviewed by the AP in Middle East capitals said Saudis have been using religious events, like the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and a smaller pilgrimage, as cover for illicit money transfers. Some money, they said, is carried into Iraq on buses with returning pilgrims.
"They sent boxes full of dollars and asked me to deliver them to certain addresses in Iraq," said one driver, who gave his name only as Hussein, out of fear of reprisal. "I know it is being sent to the resistance, and if I don't take it with me, they will kill me."
He was told what was in the boxes, he said, to ensure he hid the money from authorities at the border.
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