The story is on page A3 of the Washington Post today and it should come as no surprise: Saudis have been as generous with the Clinton family as they have with the Bushes:
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Bill Clinton’s presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation coming from Saudi Arabia, according to interviews yesterday.
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The royal family of Saudi Arabia gave the Clinton facility in Little Rock about $10 million, roughly the same amount it gave toward the presidential library of George H.W. Bush, according to people directly familiar with the contributions.
* Ten percent of the cost of the $165 million Bill Clinton presidential library is said to have come from foreign individuals and governments, sources said
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The presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has for months faced questions about the source of the money for her husband’s presidential library. During a September debate, moderator Tim Russert asked the senator whether her husband would release a donor list. Clinton said she was sure her husband would “be happy to consider that,” though the former president later declined to provide a list of donors.
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…A handful of major donors’ names to the Clinton library were disclosed in 2004 when a New York Sun reporter accessed a public computer terminal at the library that provided a list of donors. Soon after the article appeared, the list of donors was removed.
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The amount of the contribution from Saudi Arabia and several other countries, as well as the percentage of the total given by foreigners, had not been revealed.
The Post confirmed numerous seven-figure donors to the library through interviews and tax records of foundations. Several foreign governments gave at least $1 million, including the Middle Eastern nations of Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the governments of Taiwan and Brunei.
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In addition, a handful of Middle Eastern business executives and officials also gave at least $1 million each, according to the interviews. They include Saudi businessmen Abdullah al-Dabbagh, Nasser al-Rashid and Walid Juffali, as well as Issam Fares, a U.S. citizen who previously served as deputy prime minister of Lebanon.
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Anytime Saudi money flows somewhere red flags should be flying automatically and a simple question needs to be asked. “Why”?
I just wonder how much the Saudis are contributing to the western media…
steiner, quite a bit – so much so as to be able to call up the likes of Fox news (they are not the only ones) and tell them not to use the word ‘muslim’ when describing the riots in France a couple of years back. They used things like ‘disaffected youth’, etc. And the europeans are even more bought and paid by them – they call muslim violence – Asian, youths, etc – instead of muslims.
Fox news has had specials on muslim violence – but they had a lot of disinformation in it. They did not say anything of taqiyya/kithman, da’wa, hudna, immigration/uncontrolled birth rates, etc as being tactics other than the violent jihad they use to expand their islamic imperialism. They did not go into the fact that the M.O. of muslims in the countries that are now experiencing uncontrolled muslim violence began as peaceful immigration, turned into demands, more demands, violence, more violence, etc – all of which we are in danger of. Each of those countries had appeasers (people paid off, or threatened, or ignorant of islam) to help smooth over islam while they continue their take over/violence.
Not only businesses are being paid off but also businesses and especially our Universities. This is why we have our youth not listening to speakers who are trying to talk about islamofacists. They sit right along the muslims while disrupting speakers.
Read, ‘Prince’s of Darkness’ and you will also find that the saudi prince’s names were found in PCs in Kosovo – they back the violent ones in Eastern Europe too. Basically, they back the violence worldwide – and they are funding not only CAIR, but also over 1500 mosques in the USA alone. Another book about the bosnia/Kosovo war to help us slaughter more Christians for the muslims is ‘Revenge of the Prophet’. A book that tells of the M.O. of muslims in her land is Bridget Gabriel’s book, ‘Because They Hate’. You will see many comparisons to what muslims do when their numbers increase to a point where they feel they can start their crud.