Fisk: If Saudis aren’t Fuelling Militant inferno, Who Is?

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The British writer Robert Fisk emphasized that it is better for Washington to review its relations with Saudi Arabia, pointing out that the growing doubts began to indicate that all Takfirist roads lead to Riyadh.

In an article published by the British newspaper "The Independent", Fisk spoke about the Saudi role in supporting terrorist organizations, wondering who was behind financing the Takfirist terrorism.

Fisk began his article with questions in an attempt to differentiate between True Islam and the Takfiris, "The image of a Muslim burned alive is more terrible for millions of Muslims than that of an "unbeliever" burned alive. So just who are the Muslims who support the immolation of a young Jordanian? And, more to the point, who are their masters?"

Fisk then continued to raise a question concerning Jordanians' loyalty. He said, "Jordanians, more than half of whom are Palestinians, must now debate the dichotomy of tribal loyalty and religion, and ask a simple question: who are their real allies - and their real national enemies - in the Middle East?"
However, he explained that the interests of both Jordan and Washington were alike and pointed to KSA "the most Wahhabi of nations". Hence, Fisk posed a direct question, should the world blame the Saudis for the inflammable monster that is "ISIL"?

The British writer focused on a focal issue that deemed the impairment of relations among Washington itself; its State Department and the Pentagon on the role of Saudi Arabia.

He commented, "The US, where the State Department and the Pentagon have themselves been divided over Saudi Arabia's foundational role in Salafist violence - the former happy to stroke the monarchy as a pro-Western "moderate force for good", the latter suspecting that all "Islamist" roads lead to Riyadh - may now have to recalculate its relationship with the Kingdom".

Moreover, Fisk emphasized that Saudi Arabia was the Wahhabist state responsible for the establishment of the Taliban which received moral and financial support from Saudi whose contempt for women and horrid beheadings in public squares after unfair trials were similar crimes committed by "ISIL".

While KSA always claimed innocence of any involvement in terrorism, Fisk pointed out that the former leader of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, the Saudi national, had held personal meetings with Prince Turki al-Faisal in Pakistan in the nineties.

He stated, "The Saudis always declare their innocence - sometimes through their lawyers - of any involvement in terrorism". Fisk continued, "Fifteen of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 were Saudi citizens".

Based on an analyst for the Rand Corporation, Fisk declared, a classified Pentagon briefing claimed that Saudi Arabia was considered the "kernel of evil in the Middle East and was active at every level of the terrorist chain".
Letters were allegedly delivered from Osama bin Laden to Crown Prince Salman - now the Saudi King said Fisk. He drew attention to Zacarias Moussaoui - the so-called "20th 9/11 bomber" who would be testifying on the events of the Twin Tower attacks; Moussawi also accused "that prominent Saudi royals were helping to fund al-Qaeda".

Who was funding ISIS - and who should take the heat for its survival depended, according to Fisk, "upon the degree to which the world believes that the "Islamic State" is self-financing".

Fisk continued, "Western governments had detailed the production of oil wells in ISIS territory and the vast amounts of cash supposedly stolen from Mosul banks after ISIS took over, but smuggling fuel and ransacking vaults can hardly sustain an "Islamist" "nation" which controls an area larger than the UK".

Fisk proclaimed that "Millions of dollars must be arriving in "ISIL" hands from outside Iraq and Syria".

He concluded as he posed a question concerning the sources of the "ISIL" fund: "if it doesn't come from within Saudi Arabia - or Qatar - who on earth is providing the wherewithal? Iceland? Peru?

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