Saudi Arabian Support for Terrorism -- Sources
This list is but a small sampling of sources that suggest Saudi Arabia's support for terrorist organizations. I will update the list periodically.
Please feel free to add sources in the comments section:
- Ahmed
Rashid, Descent to Chaos: The United States
and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central
Asia (New York: Viking, 2008)
- Lori
Plotkin Boghardt, ‘Saudi Funding of ISIS’, The
Washington Institute, Policy Watch 2275, June 23, 2014
- Josh Rogin, ‘America’s Allies are Funding ISIS’,
The Daily Beast, June 14, 2014, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-funding-isis.html
- Steve Clemons, 'Thank God for
the Saudis': ISIS, Iraq,
and the Lessons of Blowback’, The Atlantic, June 23, 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isis-saudi-arabia-iraq-syria-bandar/373181/
- Salim Mansur, ‘ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the West’, Gatestone Institute, June 14, 2015, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5956/isis-saudi-arabia-iran
- Vicky Nanjappa, ‘Why Does Saudi Arabia Support the ISIS?’, oneindia, June 29, 2015 http://www.oneindia.com/feature/why-does-saudi-arabia-fund-the-isis-1791158.html
- Michael
Stephens, ‘Islamic
State: Where does jihadist group get its support?, BBC News, September 1, 2014,
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29004253
- Patrick
Cockburn, ‘Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take
over the north of the country’, The Independent, July 13, 2014. [Cockburn was
former MI-6 boss] http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/iraq-crisis-how-saudi-arabia-helped-isis-take-over-the-north-of-the-country-9602312.html
- Joshua Keating, ‘Why the Iraq Mess Is So Awkward for Saudi Arabia’,
Slate, June 13, 2014, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/06/16/the_saudis_helped_create_a_monster_they_can_t_control_in_iraq.html
- Kim Sengupta, ‘Turkey and Saudi Arabia alarm the West by backing Islamist extremists the Americans had bombed in Syria’, The Independent, May 12, 2015 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-crisis-turkey-and-saudi-arabia-shock-western-countries-by-supporting-antiassad-jihadists-10242747.html
- Thomas L. Friedman, ‘Our Radical Islamic BFF, Saudi Arabia’ New York Times, September 2, 2015
- Ben Norton, Saudi Arabia funds and exports Islamic extremism: The truth behind the toxic U.S. relationship with the theocratic monarchy, Salon, January 6, 2016 http://www.salon.com/2016/01/06/saudi_arabia_funds_and_exports_islamic_extremism_the_truth_behind_the_toxic_u_s_relationship_with_the_theocratic_nation/
- Ishaan Tharoor, 'The Saudi Origins of Belgium's Islamist Threat', The Washington Post, March 23, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/03/23/the-roots-of-belgiums-islamist-threat-reach-back-to-saudi-arabia/
