{"id":5200,"date":"2015-02-03T06:38:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T11:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2015-02-03T06:38:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T11:38:41","slug":"new-saudi-king-tied-to-al-qaeda-bin-laden-and-islamic-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"New Saudi King Tied to Al Qaeda, Bin Laden and Islamic Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/new-saudi-king-tied-911-bin-laden.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Saudi King Tied to Al Qaeda, Bin Laden and Islamic Terrorism<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>King Salman Has Been a Huge Backer of Terrorism Globally for Decades<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve long noted that Saudi Arabia is a\u00a0<a title=\"huge supporter of terrorism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/01\/paris-terror-attack-isis-result-911-cover.html#HouseOfSaud\">huge supporter of terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the new Saudi king is\u00a0<em>particularly bad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Investors Business Daily\u00a0<a title=\"notes\" href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials\/012615-736380-new-saudi-king-named-in-911-suits.htm\" target=\"_blank\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>King Salman has a history of funding al-Qaida, and his son has been accused of knowing in advance about the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<div>***<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Salman once ran a Saudi charity tied to al-Qaida and has been named a defendant in two lawsuits accusing the Saudi royal family of helping the 9\/11 terrorists, one of which the U.S. Supreme Court recently let move forward after years of being blocked by the State Department and the well-funded Saudi lobby.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs have provided an enormous amount of material to source their accusations against Salman. Here\u2019s why his ascension to the throne is not good news, especially as the terrorism threat grows:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Salman once headed the Saudi High Commission for Relief to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which served as\u00a0<strong>a key charitable front for al-Qaida<\/strong>\u00a0in the Balkans.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 According to a United Nations-sponsored investigation, Salman in the 1990s transferred more than $120 million from commission accounts under his control \u2014 as well as his own personal accounts \u2014 to the Third World Relief Agency, another\u00a0<strong>al-Qaida front<\/strong>\u00a0and the main pipeline for illegal weapons shipments to al-Qaida fighters in the Balkans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Saudi King Tied to Al Qaeda, Bin Laden and Islamic Terrorism King Salman Has Been a Huge Backer of Terrorism Globally for Decades We\u2019ve long noted that Saudi Arabia is a\u00a0huge supporter of terrorism. But the new Saudi king is\u00a0particularly bad. Investors Business Daily\u00a0notes: King Salman has a history of funding al-Qaida, and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,2671,701,3148,793],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-qaida","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-king-salman","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}