This is a Washington post on the role gold and Dubai's financial system played in the movement and laundering of money for al Qaeda and the Taliban.
"Al Qaeda's Road Paved With Gold"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/w...ode=&contentId=A22303-2002Feb16¬Found=true
Do you really think that they would financial traffic without opeating also on Wall Street and other financial markets where even a teanager can move a stock by throwing rumors ?!!!
In France, a former finance minister has already discovered a few years ago that 5% of liquidity comes from Maffia. The report was published but only in financial medias and in just a few lines whereas they published in big letters that the italian market has massive liquidity from Maffias. So if Maffias do it, why on earth shouldn't terrorists do it also all the more that Arabian financial men are among the most richests ?
Although it is perhaps biased since this is from jerusalem posts : The Government of Arabia himself is accused of financing 50% of the terrorist funds :
http://www.kokhavivpublications.com/2003/israel/07/0307160559.html
Jul. 15, 2003
The Jerusalem Post
More than 50 percent of Hamas's current funding comes from Saudi Arabia and is increasing despite US President George W. Bush's call to the kingdom to halt aid to Palestinian terrorist groups, Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN and a researcher of terrorist financing, said Tuesday in Washington.
"The Saudi share of Hamas funding is growing, not declining. We're getting no change in Saudi behavior," Gold said at a roundtable on Saudi terrorist financing and September 11 organized by Reps. Ileana Ros Lehtinen (R-Florida), chair of the House International Relations Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, and Gary Ackerman (D-New York), the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee.
Gold, author of "Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism," said the percentages were according to an Israeli national assessment.
Saudi Arabia, he said, continues to directly fund Hamas's military wing, provide funding for civilian, terrorist-front organizations, and writes checks to families of suicide bombers.
