{"id":41812,"date":"2018-12-19T13:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41812"},"modified":"2018-12-19T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:57:30","slug":"which-nations-are-state-sponsors-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41812","title":{"rendered":"Which Nations Are State Sponsors of Terrorism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Which Nations Are State Sponsors of Terrorism?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/12\/19\/or-41937.jpg?122835\" alt=\"Which Nations Are State Sponsors of Terrorism?\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/12\/19\/which-nations-are-state-sponsors-of-terrorism.html\">Which Nations Are State Sponsors of Terrorism?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>On 30 December 2009, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a cable (subsequently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/09STATE131801_a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/09STATE131801_a.html\">released to the public by wikileaks<\/a>) to America\u2019s Ambassadors in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Pakistan, headlined, \u201cTerrorist Finance: Action Request for Senior Level Engagement on Terrorism Finance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She told those Ambassadors to make clear to the given nation\u2019s aristocrats that, under the new US President, Barack Obama, there would no longer be any allowance for continuation of their donations to Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups that attack the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It opened, \u201cThis is an action request cable,\u201d meaning that the operations of the local US Embassy in the given nation would be monitored for compliance with the Secretary of State\u2019s \u201crequest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s focus was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>on disrupting illicit finance\u00a0activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the external financial\/logistical support networks of terrorist groups\u00a0that operate there, such as al-Qa&#8217;ida, the Taliban, and\u00a0Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT).\u00a0The IFTF&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>[Interagency Illicit Finance Task Force]\u00a0<em>activities are a vital\u00a0component of the USG\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>[US Government\u2019s]<em>\u00a0Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af\/Pak)\u00a0strategy dedicated to disrupting illicit finance flows\u00a0between the Gulf countries and Afghanistan and Pakistan.\u00a0The\u00a0IFTF has created a diplomatic engagement strategy to assist\u00a0in the accomplishment of this objective.\u00a0The strategy\u00a0focuses on senior-level USG engagement with Gulf countries\u00a0and Pakistan to communicate USG counterterrorism priorities\u00a0and to generate the political will necessary to address the\u00a0problem.\u00a0The IFTF has drafted talking points for use by all\u00a0USG officials in their interactions with Gulf and Pakistani\u00a0interlocutors.\u00a0These points focus on funding for terrorist\u00a0groups threatening stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan and\u00a0targeting coalition soldiers.\u00a0These points have been cleared\u00a0through the relevant Washington agencies.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which Nations Are State Sponsors of Terrorism? 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