U.S. Funds Being Funneled To Al Qaeda
New Yorker columnist Sy Hersh says the “single most explosive” element of his latest article involves an effort by the Bush administration to stem the growth of Shiite influence in the Middle East (specifically the Iranian government and Hezbollah in Lebanon) by funding violent Sunni groups.
Hersh says the U.S. has been “pumping money, a great deal of money, without congressional authority, without any congressional oversight” for covert operations in the Middle East where it wants to “stop the Shiite spread or the Shiite influence.” Hersh says these funds have ended up in the hands of “three Sunni jihadist groups” who are “connected to al Qaeda” but “want to take on Hezbollah.”
Hersh summed up his scoop in stark terms: “We are simply in a situation where this president is really taking his notion of executive privilege to the absolute limit here, running covert operations, using money that was not authorized by Congress, supporting groups indirectly that are involved with the same people that did 9/11.” Watch it:
Labels: corporatism, impeachment, neocons
posted by John Good @ 9:10 PM
6 Comments:
It's Iran-Contra all over again.
Aiding & giving comfort to the enemy? Yeah, right.
DubyaCo seriously needs to be impeached. Like today at 3 p.m.
As disturbing as this is, it doesn't surprise me. Dubya has been able to do whatever he wants, whenver he wants for most of his presidency. Let's be real here though. For every dollar the US spends on efforts to fund a particular group, probably ten times that amount is being spent by other countries to support the opposing group!
Is it America's duty to fund a holy war? Is this what the war on terrorism is all about?
Bush has to go, but even if not impeached, he will be out of office pretty soon. In the mean time, he must be contained so as not to do more harm than he has already done. Can the Democrats do stop him before he does something even worse like bombing Iran????
Can we ITMFA?????
Every week, more and more absurd and disturbing. This administration is the worst ever and they prove it every day.
well since we master-minded 911 -- no surprise to me...watch google/videos/loosechange
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