DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - U.S.A./SAUDI ARABIA: ARMING THE VERY PEOPLE THAT FINANCE THE JIHAD, IN ALL ITS SHAPES

Bush's Baffling Policy Toward Saudi Arabia
By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM

Sulaiman Al-Rajhi is a reclusive Saudi octogenarian with a personal fortune of $12 billion and his own Islamic bank with 500 branches in Saudi Arabia and a few more around the Muslim world. According to the CIA, Mr. Rajhi's organizations have acted as conduits, financiers, and facilitators for a wide variety of Islamic terror groups — from Al Qaeda to Hamas — for about 20 years now.

On Thursday, their nefarious activities were detailed in a landmark investigation by the Wall Street Journal. The next day, a front page article in the New York Times focused on more of Saudi Arabia's wicked activities, quoting senior American officials expressing "frustration with the Saudi government" and accusing it of both "significant efforts to undermine the Iraqi government" and "obstructing a number of other American foreign policy initiatives."

Then, lo and behold: Over the weekend, the Bush administration announced that it will ask Congress for permission to sell billions of dollars of "advanced satellite-guided bombs, upgrades to its fighters, and new naval vessels" to that very same Saudi Arabia.

Incoherent Middle East policy is an established hallmark of this administration, but continuing to coddle the very same guys who are arming jihadist Islam against the West and around the globe is over the top.

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