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Playinghardball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 11:36 AM
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Saudi Arabia, UAE funded jihadi networks in Pakistan: Wikileaks cable
Source: Reuters

Islamic charities from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates financed a network in U.S. ally Pakistan that recruited children as young as eight to wage holy war, a local newspaper reported on Sunday, citing Wikileaks.

A U.S. diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks said financial support estimated at $100 million a year was making its way from those Gulf Arab states to a jihadist recruitment network in Pakistan's Punjab province, Dawn newspaper reported.

The November 2008 dispatch by Bryan Hunt, the then principal officer at the U.S. consulate in Lahore, was based on discussions with local government and non-governmental sources during trips to Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province.

It said those sources claimed that financial aid from Saudi and United Arab Emirates was coming from "missionary" and "Islamic charitable" organizations ostensibly with the direct support of those countries'

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/22/wikileaks-saudi-arabia-uae-funded-jihad-pakistan-children/




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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 11:37 AM
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1. In other news, water is still wet.
Edited on Sun May-22-11 11:37 AM by Odin2005
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 11:57 AM
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2. And?


When is this son of a bitch going to jail!
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 12:33 PM
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3. It would be news if they found evidence to the contrary.
They have always exported Jihad in order to keep it as far from them as possible.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 12:37 PM
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 12:40 PM
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6. alerted for sexist speech. nt
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 12:39 PM
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5. remember when people on du were sure wikileaks was just a way to embarrass obama
clearly they were wrong.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 12:45 PM
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8. Yah, the silence is getting kind of loud.
How many times does one faction have to be correct and the other incorrect before the correct ones are anything other than laughed at?

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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 12:43 PM
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7. Anyone paying attention could have hipped you to that before 9/11
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 12:46 PM
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10. To have actual government documents frankly admitting that is another story though..
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-11 12:45 PM
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9. So did the USA..and bragged about it.
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