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Why is Ottawa praising the Saudi Kingdom which is ’the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorists groups worldwide?’
16 October 2012
By Gilles Gervais "Bilateral relations between Canada and Saudi Arabia include common interests on many peace and security issues ..." The above quote taken from the Canadian government’s web page on Canada-Saudi Arabia bilateral relations incapsulates what is wrong with that particular relation and also puts in question the soundness of Canada’s foreign policy towards the Middle East region as a whole. The rapprochement with Saudi Arabia is not a recent phenomena as witnessed by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s praise of the Saudi Kingdom in an interview given to The Globe and Mail on April 16, 2010 before leaving for Saudi Arabia to lead a Canadian business delegation: “Our different histories, cultures and systems of government can generate contrasting points of view, but we should be able to address them in a manner that does not jeopardize or undermine the underlying strengths of our partnerships. “Saudi Arabia’s influence on global issues, such as peace and security, will continue to grow in importance. When we share common objectives on these issues, there will be even greater scope for apolitical and commercial partnership with Saudi Arabia “Clearly, Saudi Arabia and Canada can go forward – together.” Compare the above quotes with a truthful internal evaluation by Hillary Clinton of the Saudi’s capabilities for funding terrorism worldwide: On December 5, 2010 The London Guardian and Wikileaks published a Dec.30, 2009 State Department cable from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to State Department and Treasury Department officials. The 11-page secret cable was referred to as an “action request” by The Guardian. The cable reads in part: “While the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) takes seriously the threat of terrorism within Saudi Arabia, it has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority…[D]onors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide. “More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups, including Hamas, which probably raises millions of dollars annually from Saudi sources, often during Hajj and Ramadan.” Or, an even more frank evaluation by Jeffrey Steinberg, counter-intelligence director for EIR, from his article reviewing U.S. Senator Bob Graham’s 2004 book “Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia and the Failure of America’s War on Terror.”  “At the very same time that Bandar and wife were providing Basnan and al-Bayoumi with funds to establish the West Coast 9/11 team, the Saudi ambassador was receiving an estimated $2 billion in "fees" from the Al Yamamah oil-for-arms barter deal that he had arranged between the British government and the Saudi Ministry of Defense. From 1985 through the time of the 9/11 attacks and beyond, the Al Yamamah deal generated over $100 billion in profits that were sequestered in offshore bank accounts, jointly administered by the Saudis and the British, to run worldwide covert operations. In addition, Bandar and other Saudi officials and princes received enormous payoffs, sometimes running in the billions of dollars. “It was this pool of cash that bankrolled the 9/11 attacks, and the Saudi and British fingerprints are all over the transactions.” Jeffrey Steinberg: Book Review –Bob Graham, a Man With a Mission In view of such evidence in the public domain, and given that Canadian intelligence agencies have adequate intelligence files, we presume, on the Saudi’s dirty money financing of terrorist networks, which files can be made available to relevant Cabinet members, then, the question is: what is it that the Conservative government in Ottawa pretends to ignore about the Saudi’s connection to terrorism? Or perhaps that is the wrong question, and one should rather ask about the government’s moral fitness to govern, at least on this issue of our close relation with a Middle East regime which represents “the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide.” Journalist Yves Engler, in a recent Global Research article “ Canada Strengthen Ties with Saudi Arabia ”, attempts to explain the Conservatives refusal to confront the Saudis on their fomenting of wars and human rights violations in terms of “support for the monarchy’s pro-US foreign policy and the Saudi monarchy’s growing role in international financial markets”. Engler then goes on to list the Conservative Cabinet Ministers recent visits to the Saudi Kingdom, including those that led to “the Conservatives approved arms export licenses worth a whopping $4 billion to Saudi Arabia.” Well, Mr. Engler is mistaken on at least two counts: First, Canada’s selling of Light Armoured Vehicles to Saudi Arabia is not a “whopping” arms sale, as he put it, but would rather qualify as “small potatoes” when compared to the British BAE-Saudi Al Yamamah oil-for-arms contract that generated a $100 billion undeclared profit that was and is still being used as a giant slush fund to finance terrorist activities around the world on behalf of the British monarchy and the Empire! Secondly, the proof is not in the addition of numerous details given in the Engler article, you cannot evaluate by sniffing from the bottom up, you wont accomplish anything but browning your nose! It must rather be the strategic reality that guides the research and may give the proper meaning to certain investigative journalism “facts”. Any news analysis or intelligence evaluations which leaves out the leading role of the British monarchy circles and its co-thinkers in the City is actually preventing a resolution to the financial breakdown crisis and its attending push for general warfare. The strategic reality has now deteriorated to the point that if British puppet Obama is not removed soon, by either leading White House Cabinet members invoking the 25th Amendment’s Article 4 against the President or through impeachment procedures by the U.S. Congress, then the probability for United States Ohio-class submarines being given orders to launch thermonuclear war is high. Therefore, in such an ominous period as we find ourselves in during this autumn, political institutions in the United States and in Canada must be mobilized for actions that can prevent a nuclear winter from happening. Yes, the Saudi monarchy has to be held accountable but, more importantly, is the Canadian government and its citizens ready to hold H.R.H. Queen Elisabeth II also accountable? One cannot mistake the pawns and the knights for the Queen and her Club of the Isles [1] associates who are the ones presently controlling the strategic chess board. [1] The Club of the Isles is the 150-years-old network that draws together all the leading royal and princely houses of Europe under Windsor direction. |
