Senator: US Soldiers Being Killed by Terror Groups Backed With US Money

The United States has paid more than $150 million to companies in Afghanistan that are accused of helping to finance terrorist attacks on American soldiers and facilities, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

"It's like the United States government subsidizing the Taliban, al Qaeda, the Haqqani network, those groups that are trying to shoot and kill our soldiers," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., a member of the Senate's Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News' "World News with Diane Sawyer".

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/senator-us-soldiers-killed-terror-groups-backed-us/story?id=20660114&singlePage=true

I have been saying this for years.

But it is the global Elite who are manipulating the world and the governments.

It's a drop in the bucket. The US pays over 700 billion a year for middle eastern oil and some estimates are as high as 10% of the money is funneled into terrorist hands either covertly or overtly.

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When it comes to September 11, oil plays a crucial role in explaining al-Qaeda's motivations. Oil money was pivotal to funding the Afghan resistance, which counted among its ranks many Pakistanis educated in Saudi-funded madrassas. Oil money was also decisive for the rise of the Taliban, who also studied in the Saudi-sponsored schools and offered al-Qaeda a safe heaven for its operations in Afghanistan. Moreover, Yetiv argues, the United States would have tacitly tolerated the Taliban regime, in exchange for their consent to a U.S.-supported oil and gas pipeline to be built across Afghanistan from Turkmenistan. Petroleum also offered a powerful propaganda tool to Bin Laden, since he justified the attacks against America on 9/11 by accusing Washington of stealing Arab oil. In his mind, oil was instrumental in magnifying U.S. global power, and the Saudi royal family was responsible for giving in to America's greed. In fact, the Saudi rulers, by allowing U.S. forces to stay after the first Iraq war in 1991, proved themselves to be completely subservient to Washington's interests, according to the sheikh of terror. The growing anti-Americanism, which played such an important role in 9/11, is also related to oil, since the perception that the United States is driven by some sort of colonialist appetite for Arab black gold feeds into the hostility against America.

More broadly, oil has turned out to be crucial in financing terrorist networks and activities. Petro-dollars directly and indirectly financed terrorism and weapons of mass destruction through opaque connections among illegal organizations, states and international institutions. Complex financial transactions (hawala) and charities have provided the channels through which petrodollars have reached their final destination. As many scholars have shown, there are powerful connections between oil and the lack of democracy, and oil money helps to support those regimes that al-Qaeda rejects and fight against, such as Saudi Arabia. And the United States, in turn, supports the Saudi government because of its vast oil wealth.

Oil is not the only element in this story. There is also globalization, which has increased world demand for energy, multiplying its geostrategic importance and the relevance of the Middle East. Globalization, as Yetiv maintains, "has lowered the cost of and barriers to al-Qaeda's entrance onto the global stage and has provided the organization with the instruments to threaten international security." Middle Eastern oil and globalization have together helped al-Qaeda develop into a perceived and real threat, "but more needs to be done to assess how much of this threat is perceived and how much is real," Yetiv asserts. However, to address this threat, the United States has spent billions of dollars, thus forgoing the opportunity to use the money for internal needs.
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From the "Petroleum Triangle" by Steve A.Yetiv

al-Qaeda is a term that people use for "the bad guy."

Originally created by the CIA to fight communism it has morphed into a global mostly fictional "bad guy." The global Elite white collar criminals and Central Banking cartels need an ugly "bad guy" to distract people's attention from THEM.

I don't believe even half of the stories or acts they give credit to "al-Qaeda." In fact the very mention of that name implies propaganda in the works.

Oil, just like any commodity is just another global currency. In that article above I don't see any mention of the huge drug industry. Weapons are also a commodity/currency. War itself is profitable.

Sheesh... and i thought y'all knew that with Syria, helping the "rebels" (al-quida and talliban, among other terrorist cells) with guns, ammo and cash...


barry wants to help his bros...

That's another good example.
Those terrorists that are being called "rebels" are cold blooded sadistic killers. If we are sending them ANYTHING then we are the terrorists.

STOP SUPPORTING TERRORISTS. We, the american people are the good guys. If there are bad guys in our government we need to GET RID OF THEM.

Maybe North Korea will keep printing US dollars for them. Keeps the dollar floating.