Is Saudi Arabia somehow or another behind the terrorist attack on Boston? Much of the world, despite the conclusions of U.S. investigators that the culprits were ethnic Chechens who acted independently, believe that like 9-11, behind the Marathon attack is Saudi Wahhabism.
Two articles we posted yesterday address these continuing suspicions. One from from Iraq’s Sotal Iraq lays almost all global terrorism at the doorstep of the Saud dynasty and its continuing support for ‘Wahhabism and its twisted ideas.’ The other, from Saudi Arabia’s Dar al-Hayat, doesn’t deny the crime of Wahhabists on 9-11, but expresses consternation that U.S. media was so quick to label a young Saudi man as the culprit in the Boston bombings.
First, from the Sotal Iraq, which usually has a more Sunni disposition, in an article headlined Saudi Arabia: A Criminal State Responsible for Most of World’s Terror Attacks, columnist Zuhayr Chantaf asserts that there is almost no terrorism in the modern world that Riyadh is not responsible for. In reference to the Boston Marathon attacks, Chantaf writes in part:
It isn’t helpful to Saudi Arabia or its media to deny the connection of their terrorists to the Boston bombing. And no matter how much the Saudi media denies it, the truth is clear and not open to discussion. … Isn’t it true that al-Qaeda was founded with Saudi money and based on miscreant, sectarian Wahhabi ideas that call for the shedding of blood and extermination of people with differing beliefs? Aren’t those the ideas on which the crime of September 11 was based – followed by the London and Madrid bombings, later to spread to Iraq, where mosques, churches and all houses of worship, schools and markets were destroyed? And don’t they continue to execute their terrorist acts in certain Arab countries today?
The time has come for the Saud dynasty to pay the price for its worldwide terrorism, and for the international community to tell them “enough with terrorism and killing people. … What crime did the participants of the Boston Marathon commit that Saudi Arabia felt the need to avenge itself against them? What crime did a ten-year-old boy commit to make him worthy of murder in front of his mother, and while he happily watched and supported his father as he participated in the race? What were the crimes of the Iraqi women and children murdered by Saudi Arabia through its funding of terrorist organizations and its provision of men to carry out these criminal terrorist acts?
Then, in an article from Saudi Arabia’s Dar al-Hayat headlined Why Isn’t Saudi Embassy Suing U.S. Media Over Marathon Defamations?, columnist Abdelaziz al-Suwayed calls out the Saudi government for not suing The New York Post and others for ‘fabricating reports that a Saudi citizen was suspected of involvement in the Boston bombings.’ Mr. al-Suwayed writes in part:
“What’s stopping the Saudi Embassy in Washington from filing a lawsuit against the American newspaper that fabricated reports that a Saudi citizen was suspected of involvement in the Boston bombings?
This issue undermines all Saudis, particularly as we have yet to recover from the fallout from the events of September 11. Looked at from another point of view, this might be considered a public relations campaign that has a deeper meaning than most others.
If the Saudi Foreign Ministry fails to act or respond to this demand, which I consider to be one of the entire nation, what is to stop us from launching a public campaign to raise money to hire a respected U.S. law firm to defend us against such defamation and incitement of hatred toward us?”
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