They didn't carry attacks because the US didn't ask for their involvement and they made that clear many times. Also, you might want to follow the news since the collation in Yemen right now is fighting Al-qaeda in Adan but I guess it's fine not to mention that since it's against your agenda. Saudi don't send supporter to ISIS and I want some source on that. As for your part this is the only source you have and you're going to use YOUR interpretation as an evidence? lol you might want to bring an actual source because your interpretation is not one. Also, do you have numbers on how many civilians died from GCC attacks in Yemen? because I can get you 10x this number from the attacks of your beloved Hezbollah collation in Syria.
They didn't carry out any attacks because they got bogged down in Yemen and shifted their focus there, besides why would they bomb guys who follow the same ideology they do? Saying it's because US didn't ask for it is ridiculous when they were involved in carrying out airstrikes back in 2014. Also implying that Saudi Arabia give two shits about whether US asks it to carry out airstrikes or not is laughable.
It's actively funding radical Sunni Islamist groups in Syria whose ideology does not differ much from ISIS, it talked about sending ground troops to Syria (to fight against ISIS even though it's officials mainly talked about Assad) and has already sent warplanes to Turkey. It also hosted a conference where it tried to unite its Sunni Islamist terrorist brothers before the peace talks last month in Geneva.So much for caring about some magical US orders about not getting involved lol.
Saudi Arabia supporting terrorists and sponsoring/funding a Salafist/Wahhabi ideology across the world through its mosques is not exactly a secret or something kept hidden. Using Syria as an example we see which groups it supports which serves as good recent evidence when these groups are Jaish Al Islam and Ahrar Al Sham among others. There's plenty of media about these Sunni Salafist Islamist groups and what their goals are. As an example, please see my post above regarding the goal of Ahrar. There are plenty of other ways to see the connection between Saudi Arabia and terrorism:
Examples such as the sectarian Saudi Sunni coalition fighting together with Al-Qaida against the Houthis/Yemeni army, something that was only recently covered a short moment
The Saudi coalition fighting alongside terrorists is nothing new. Yemeni journalists and observers on the ground mentioned last year that there was an obvious and seemingly well-coordinated combined attack on the Houthi-Saleh forces by the Saudi coalition from the air and AQ from the ground. For the average joe in the western world though they'd probably need something as "credible" as BBC to even hear about it
moreso when their image of GCC is likely to be a "positive" one thanks to massive amount of money spent by GCC on lobbying and public relations to have them represented by poweful American firms in Washington ,
and thanks to money spent on journalist to give them a lovely image to the rest of the world.
Joe Biden also admitted in a Harvard(!) lecture that Saudi Arabia, Turkey and their Gulf allies supplied weapons to Al-Nusrah/AQ and other Sunni Jihadist groups who are designated as terrorist groups (and who are still being supported by Saudi Arabia & Turkey)
man look at all those students waving Hezbollah flags and listening to Pro-Assadist Joe Biden.
We also have the leaks, the Saudi cable. One of the leaks shows Saudi Arabia's foreign minister proposing to establish connections with Sunni tribes and politicians in Iraq (many of these guys are former regime, pro-Saddamist/Baathists tribes who fought alongside AQ against US in Iraq in the Anbar region) to undermine the Iraqi government and have them work for Saudi Arabia's terrorist policies in Iraq. Among the people are the Dulaimi tribesmen and other terrorists like Ali Hatem Sulaiman who resides in Erbil at KDP's warm invitation (not the first terrorist they host). These guys called for violent attacks against ISF so it's no wonder KRG and Saudi Arabia have a close relation when both have no problems with terrorists.
Another leak shows how Saudi Arabia had communication with Al-Hashemi, who at the time was wanted on charge of terrorism (and he still is). He was also warmly welcomed and hosted in Erbil (once again thanks to the KDP dictatorship). This is the same guy who called the ISIS invasion of Mosul as the Iraqi Spring.
Another leak shows the Saudi GID financially assisting Kurdish Islamists in KRG with "charity" and media/political support.
Another leak shows the son of terrorist and war criminal Izzat al-Douri requesting to have a meeting with the ambassador of Saudi Arabia in Yemen to deliver a message from his father. This guy's father is the same guy who represents an outlawed political party responsible for some of the worst crimes in modern history, a party responsible for much of the terrorism in Iraq. The same person who is responsible for attacks on ISF, Iraqi civilians and US personel since 2003.
Saudi Arabia providing financial support to Hikmat Azzawi, the former deputy prime minister in Saddam Hussein's government, a person on US most wanted playing cards and a terrorist. Similarly another terrorist, Adnan Al-Dulaimi (from the same tribe that called for attacks against ISF) who was the boss of Saddam's legal defense team, and who maintains strong relationship with the outlawed Baath party residing in Jordan (and Syria...you know back when you liked your thug Assad before you worked with US to incite sectarian tensions in Syria in 2006), maintains a strong relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Another leak has the former Republican Guard (Saddam's dogs) personally contacting the Saudi embassy in Jordan to tell them to not attend the Arab League summit in Baghdad back in 2012 since they were planning to target all attendees if it was held there.
Looks like lots of Islamists and terrorists turn towards Saudi Arabia (or in certain cases Saudi Arabia reaches out to them) for financial support, contact and other benefits. Jeez I wonder why.
The sectarian Sunni coalition dropping cluster bombs on densely populated areas in Yemen. Right from HRW, and this one was reported when no civilian casualties were confirmed yet. Since then more were dropped and civilians have died for them. Not only is it a violation of laws of war but it amounts to war crimes. That's like terrrorism directly from them.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia alarm the West by backing Islamist extremists the Americans had bombed in Syria - no more need to be said about this.
Another piece that reveals some interesting points -
Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of the country
Some time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the powerful Saudi ambassador in Washington and head of Saudi intelligence until a few months ago, had a revealing and ominous conversation with the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove. Prince Bandar told him: "The time is not far off in the Middle East, Richard, when it will be literally 'God help the Shia'. More than a billion Sunnis have simply had enough of them."
This is a statement that resonates very well with John Kerry's (politically motivated) speech about ISIS responsible for genocide against Yezidis, Christian, Shias, Turkmen, Shabak and other minorities, and one that resonates very well with UN
Continuing further on the piece:
He does not doubt that substantial and sustained funding from private donors in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to which the authorities may have turned a blind eye, has played a central role in the Isis surge into Sunni areas of Iraq. He said: "Such things simply do not happen spontaneously." This sounds realistic since the tribal and communal leadership in Sunni majority provinces is much beholden to Saudi and Gulf paymasters, and would be unlikely to cooperate with Isis without their consent.
and another interesting bit of it:
The forecast by Prince Bandar, who was at the heart of Saudi security policy for more than three decades, that the 100 million Shia in the Middle East face disaster at the hands of the Sunni majority, will convince many Shia that they are the victims of a Saudi-led campaign to crush them. "The Shia in general are getting very frightened after what happened in northern Iraq," said an Iraqi commentator, who did not want his name published. Shia see the threat as not only military but stemming from the expanded influence over mainstream Sunni Islam of Wahhabism, the puritanical and intolerant version of Islam espoused by Saudi Arabia that condemns Shia and other Islamic sects as non-Muslim apostates and polytheists.
The ideological thought of the last part is shared by both ISIS, KSA and Qatar, an ideology you surely are very familiar with since you live in the region.
The article also mentions leaked US official documents, one of them from 2009 from Hillary Clinton:
Saudi sympathy for anti-Shia "militancy" is identified in leaked US official documents. The then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote in December 2009 in a cable released by Wikileaks that "Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, LeT [Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan] and other terrorist groups." She said that, in so far as Saudi Arabia did act against al-Qa'ida, it was as a domestic threat and not because of its activities abroad. This policy may now be changing with the dismissal of Prince Bandar as head of intelligence this year. But the change is very recent, still ambivalent and may be too late: it was only last week that a Saudi prince said he would no longer fund a satellite television station notorious for its anti-Shia bias based in Egypt.
and no, the policy since then hasn't changed. It's obviously become worse with the tension between SA and Iran.
The German vice-chancellor accusing Saudi Arabia of financing Islamic extremism in the West by funding Islamist mosques and communities in the West, mentioning that many of the Islamists who pose a threat to public security comes from the very same communities and mosques funded by Saudi Arabia.
The German spy agency BND, while not mentioning terrorism directly, cite Saudi Arabia as a huge risk for the destabilization of the region. They could have probably said more but there would be political and diplomatic repercussions for that. They do point out support to the opposition group which mostly consist of Sunni Jihadists
The first UK inquiry in ISIS funding mentions that it's most likely dependent on funds from wealthy Gulf States.
Saudis have also sent death-row inmates accused of rape, murder, rape and drug smuggling to go and fight in Syria, so basically a bunch of savages from various countries facing capital punishment in the kingdom being sent abroad to kill.
Between 2-3k Saudis joining ISIS, measured in early 2015. It's per captita and they are only behind Tunisia and Jordan in countries with a majority Muslim population.
Source here
Daily Paul put it at 7000. Note that this probably does not account for all the Saudis captured or killed at the Iraqi-Saudi border. Contrary to the claim of Iraq's ISIS (Saudi) ambassador of no terrorist passing the borders ISF and volunteers capture/kill ISIS fighters of Saudi nationality on a weekly basis, with occasional periods of quieteness.
It's worth noting that thanks to Saudi Arabia promoting the ideology ISIS follows for decades through state-sanctioned mosques in Asia, US and Europe it has given a climate where the recruitment and spread of ISIS and their ideology is much stronger. To say that much of the radicalization of the Sunni Muslim youth in US, Europe,
South Asia and Southeastern Asia hasn't been done intentionally by SA is being intellectually dishonest.
Also stuff like this doesn't help either about Saudi Arabia and their role in terrorism:
Biggest amount of Pro-ISIS tweets come from Saudi Arabia
Former Imam of Masjd Al Haram - the Grand Mosque in Mecca - saying that ISIS shares the same ideology as them
That's not to mention current imams that stand at the Grand Mosque preaching pretty nasty stuff about Muslim minorities on their loudspeakers, all while you probably have those same minorities attending their pilgrimage there at that moment.
We also have former Saudi Army officers like Colonel Qahtani becoming AQ's security chief in Iraq. Captured and taken nicely care of by ISF some years ago.
Also, if you don't call the brutal and violent oppression of your country's minority and the minority of neighboring countries as terrorism then I don't know what to tell you. You won't silence the violent oppression going on in Qatif.
That Saudi would send support to ISIS is one of the least unbelievable things here, moreso when it supports groups that are very similar and have thousands of its citizens joining ISIS and thousands of sympathizers in it while spouting the exact same ideology ISIS does in Mecca.
As for my interpretation, I think the genocides comitted by these groups is enough of an evidence to assume that parents don't leave their kids to someone who wants to kill them for their faith. Use common sense. Would you say that a propaganda video of children of "moderate rebels" in Assad's control are merely there because their parents abandoned them? We all know how it would play out in the Sunni and Western world.
Saudi Arabia supports terrorism, funds terrorism and spread the ideology of terrorism across the world, and I know which camp you are in.
