Ya betul, tapi sekarang informasi itu dipadatkan oleh bocoran Wikileaks.. --- In [email protected], "sunny" <am...@...> wrote: > > Banyak orang sudah tahu sebelum Wikileaks keluarkan dokumen, antara lain Ed > Husein yang lama berdiam di Arab Saudia. Bukunya bernama "The Islamist". > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jusfiq > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:06 PM > Subject: [proletar] BBC: Wikileaks: Saudis 'chief funders of Sunni > militants' > > > > > Wikileaks: Saudis 'chief funders of Sunni militants' > > Saudi banker counts new riyal notes (2007) The cables said militant groups > had used front companies in Saudi Arabia to fundraise > > US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned last year in a leaked > classified memo that donors in Saudi Arabia were the "most significant source > of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide". > > She said it was "an ongoing challenge" to persuade Saudi officials to treat > such activity as a strategic priority. > > The groups funded include al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba, she > added. > > The memo, released by Wikileaks, also criticised efforts to combat > militants by the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait. > > Meanwhile, a lawyer for the founder of the Wikileaks website said he was > holding back secret material for release if anything happened to him. > > He told the BBC that a rape case being prepared in Sweden against Julian > Assange, an Australian national, was politically motivated. > 'Dependent on CIA' > > In one classified cable sent in December 2009, Mrs Clinton urged diplomats > to redouble efforts to stop funds reaching militants "threatening stability > in Pakistan and Afghanistan and targeting Coalition soldiers". > > "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," she wrote. > Pilgrims walk outside the Great Mosque in Mecca during the Hajj (18 > November 2010) Large sums are raised by militant groups during the annual > Hajj pilgrimage, US diplomats believe > > The Saudi government had begun to make important progress, but "donors in > Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni > terrorist groups worldwide", she added. > > Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba "probably raised millions of > dollars" annually from Saudi sources, often during the Hajj - and the Islamic > holy month of Ramadan, she alleged. > > Mrs Clinton said reforms to criminalise terrorist financing and restrict > the overseas flow of funds from Saudi-based charities had been effective, but > that they did not cover equally suspect "multilateral organisations". > > Another cable alleges that the Pakistani charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which has > been accused of being a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, used a Saudi-based front > company to fund its activities in 2005. > Continue reading the main story > "Start Quote > > The lack of effective border controls on cash is no doubt exploited by > Taliban couriers and Afghan drug lords" > > End Quote Leaked US diplomatic cable > > The US embassy in Riyadh said in February that the Saudi authorities > remained "almost completely dependent on the CIA" for information. > 'Key transit point' > > Wikileaks is currently working through the publication of more than 250,000 > US diplomatic cables, whose release has embarrassed the United States. > > Washington has condemned the disclosures - including indiscreet > descriptions of world leaders and instructions to spy at the UN - as an > attack on the world community. > > In the latest releases, three other US allies in the Gulf were also listed > as sources of funding for militants in the memo sent by Mrs Clinton. > > Al-Qaeda and other groups continued to "exploit Kuwait both as a source of > funds and as a key transit point", partly because it remains the sole Gulf > Co-operation Council (GCC) country that has not criminalised terrorist > financing, the cable said. > > "While the GOK has demonstrated a willingness to take action when attacks > target Kuwait, it has been less inclined to take action against Kuwait-based > financiers and facilitators plotting attacks outside of Kuwait," Mrs Clinton > wrote. > > Kuwaiti officials resisted the "draconian" measures sought by the US > against the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society, a charity designated a > terrorist entity in 2008 for providing aid to al-Qaeda and affiliated groups, > according to one cable. > > Qatar is meanwhile criticised for having "adopted a largely passive > approach" to fundraising activities, and its overall level of > counter-terrorism co-operation with the US is "considered the worst in the > region". > > The UAE is described as a "strategic gap" that militants can exploit, with > the Taliban and Haqqani Network believed to be earning "significant funds" > from business interests, kidnapping and extortion there. > > "High volumes of cash and electronic funds flow both to and from > Afghanistan and Pakistan, the vast majority of which is derived from > legitimate trade and remittances. The lack of effective border controls on > cash is no doubt exploited by Taliban couriers and Afghan drug lords, > camouflaged among traders, businessmen and migrant workers," one cable said. > > Another cable said militants avoided money transfer controls by sending > amounts below reporting thresholds, using couriers and hawala - an Islamic > informal transfer system. > > Emerging trends include mobile banking, pre-paid cards, and internet > banking. > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
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