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AntiFascist

(12,792 posts)
Mon May 22, 2017, 08:59 PM May 2017

Leaked Clinton email and Saudi support for Isis...

While President Trump works highly profitable deals with Saudi Arabia, it is important to point out that Saudi Arabia in recent times has supported Isis terrorism: http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/10/hillary-in-leaked-email-saudi-arabia-and-qatar-are-funding-isis/

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sent an email to her campaign chairman John Podesta in 2014, who was then-counselor to President Barack Obama, that said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are both giving financial and logistical support to the Islamic State and other extremist Sunni groups, according to a recent Wikileaks release.


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Leaked Clinton email and Saudi support for Isis... (Original Post) AntiFascist May 2017 OP
It is ell known that at certain levels in the government they were giving aid to al qaeda, so this still_one May 2017 #1
However Applan May 2017 #2
very true still_one May 2017 #3
Violence begets violence and the Military-Industrial-Complex always profits... AntiFascist May 2017 #4
The Reichwing conveniently forgets this fact. Duppers May 2017 #5
You're very welcome... AntiFascist May 2017 #6
As Gust Avrakotos told Charlie Wilson Duppers May 2017 #7

still_one

(92,187 posts)
1. It is ell known that at certain levels in the government they were giving aid to al qaeda, so this
Mon May 22, 2017, 09:03 PM
May 2017

should not come as a surprise


AntiFascist

(12,792 posts)
4. Violence begets violence and the Military-Industrial-Complex always profits...
Mon May 22, 2017, 09:44 PM
May 2017

is this how Trump wants America to succeed?

AntiFascist

(12,792 posts)
6. You're very welcome...
Mon May 22, 2017, 10:26 PM
May 2017

If it wasn't for the right-wing support for "Charlie Wilson's War" none of this may be happening now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Sir Martin Ewans noted that the Afghan Arabs "benefited indirectly from the CIA's funding, through the ISI and resistance organizations,"[58] and that "it has been reckoned that as many as 35,000 'Arab-Afghans' may have received military training in Pakistan at an estimated cost of $800 million in the years up to and including 1988."[59] Some of the CIA's greatest Afghan beneficiaries were Arabist commanders such as Haqqani and Hekmatyar who were key allies of bin Laden over many years.[60][61] Haqqani—one of bin Laden's closest associates in the 1980s—received direct cash payments from CIA agents, without the mediation of the ISI. This independent source of funding gave Haqqani disproportionate influence over the mujahideen.[40] Haqqani and his network played an important role in the formation and growth of al Qaeda, with Jalalhuddin Haqqani allowing bin Laden to train mujahideen volunteers in Haqqani territory and build extensive infrastructure there.[62]


ISI: Islamic State of Iraq

Duppers

(28,120 posts)
7. As Gust Avrakotos told Charlie Wilson
Mon May 22, 2017, 10:38 PM
May 2017

In the movie, Gust Avrakotos: "There's this story of the Old Zen Master...We'll see."

Well, we have. The rethugs are nearsighted, moronic assholes.

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