Labeviere paints a detailed panorama of the evolution of the special Saudi, US, Islamist movement relationship from the time when Roosevelt made his first deal with King Ibn Sa'ud in February 1945 on board the Quincy. The kingdom holds 26% of the world's proven oil reserves and agreed to provide the bulk of America's fuel needs at moderate prices for sixty years. The companies now are tenants and in the year 2005, the wells, installations and material will return to the monarch's possession. The premium paid to the king is 18 to 21 cents a gallon for each barrel of oil. In return the US agreed to unconditionally support the stability of the kingdom internally and externally. (A monarchy which beheads 200 people a year…) Not in the contract, but in return, the Saudi's have invested some $350 billion in the US and have developed an almost exclusive economic, commercial and financial partnership. Together they funded, trained, armed bin Laden, and helped to create the famed Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan through the Pakistan ISI, but they also met directly with bin Laden.
Like Christian and Catholic movements, the Islamist movement is complex and multi-layered with competing Sunni and Shiite backers. Saudi Arabia (Sunni) has done everything in its power to counter the Iranian Shiite influence that has grown since 1979. Each supports movements likely to help "the cause" and the winner will embody the political future of "true Islam." The oil monarchies give without counting and without requiring accounting, but Iran has confined itself to giving assistance to where it can influence some degree of control.
There is so much misinformation, screwball news, lies, fiction and made up stuff it is simply astounding.
A lot of it is without purpose or simply sensless propaganda. Take the recent uttering by this fellow McCain for instance(ex presidential Republican hopeful).
He stated about a week ago...somewhere, publicly, that the 9/11 hijackers came into the USA via Canada, therefor the Canadian borders must be beefed up as it were. Misinformed nonsense,it is clearly understood that the 9/11 criminals came to the USA directly and quite legally, visitors or immigrants, not sure...and that they took flying lessons in Florida. So much for war hero McCain and his screwball utterances. By the way this fellow was bombing innocent women, children and other folks in Hanoi,when his plane was shut down he was captured and lingered in prison as a POW for a few years. Does that make him a war hero? More like a push button killer with talent and skill to fly an airplane.
Occasionally I keep reading about President H.Truman who caused to have the atomic bombs produced.Not so.Roosevelt during his last term authorized the Manhattan project, the creation and testing of an atom bomb. He did not communicate much with Truman and when President Roosevelt died his V.P. Harry T.had no knowledge or understanding of these super bombs...but once he became president he quickly authorized their deployment over Japan,partly, probably to impress Joe Stalin but that's another story.
Without the Billions of American Dollars and munitions there would not have been a Soviet Union, Stalin " Man made of Steel"...managed to turn the tide on Hitler only with the support of the USA, the rest is history.
What followed was almost 50 years of cold war with the Soviets, Iron curtain and wars in Korea and Vietnam to contain Communism..
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