What our friends the Saudis have done to Kosovo

We all know that Clinton's ties to Saudi Arabia are deep... That's how the American status quo roles. And most of us know about the US helping Saudi Arabia commit war crimes on a daily basis in Yemen.

But did you know they're also studiously working to make Kosovo a hotbed of wahhabism and jihadis?

Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store.

The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and blamed for spreading Wahhabism – the conservative ideology dominant in Saudi Arabia – in the 17 years since a US-led intervention wrested tiny Kosovo from Serbian oppression.

Since then – much of that time under the watch of U.S. officials – Saudi money and influence have transformed this once-tolerant Muslim society at the hem of Europe into a font of Islamic extremism and a pipeline for jihadis. Kosovo now finds itself, like the rest of Europe, fending off the threat of radical Islam. Over the last two years, police have identified 314 Kosovars – including two suicide bombers, 44 women and 28 children – who have gone abroad to join Islamic State, the highest number per capita in Europe.

They were radicalised and recruited, Kosovo investigators say, by a corps of extremist clerics and secretive associations funded by Saudi Arabia and other conservative Arab gulf states using an obscure, labyrinthine network of donations from charities, private individuals and government ministries.

“They promoted political Islam,” said Fatos Makolli, the director of Kosovo’s counter-terrorism police. “They spent a lot of money to promote it through different programmes mainly with young, vulnerable people, and they brought in a lot of Wahhabi and Salafi literature. They brought these people closer to radical political Islam, which resulted in their radicalisation.”

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/how-the-saudis-turned-kosovo-into-fertile-ground-for-isis-1.2657608

I'd remind you that the very lobbying firm hired to keep this sort of news out of the US media is literally owned by Clinton's campaign chairman. They're also leading the charge to make sure Americans never read the entire 911 commission report.