Connection - Pat Robertson = Charles Taylor = al Quaida

[donco6]

Wasn't it Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell who accused gays/lesbians et al. of bringing about 911? Well, golly, looks like Pat has a MUCH closer relationship than anyone else:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/9345943.htm?1c

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DAKAR, Senegal — Witnesses place six al-Qaida fugitives in Africa buying diamonds in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a report by U.N.-backed prosecutors.

The first-person accounts detailed by the prosecutors add to long-standing claims that al-Qaida laundered millions of dollars in terror funds through African diamonds before launching its deadliest offensive.

Al-Qaida figures, including some already wanted in pre-Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. targets, dealt directly with then-President Charles Taylor and other leaders and warlords in the West African country of Liberia from 1999 onward, according to the accounts.


Connection between Pat and Charles Taylor:

The United States has passed laws banning the import of diamonds from war-torn African countries, including Liberia, because they are used to fund war and terrorism. A United Nations-established tribunal has indicted Taylor for backing diamond-financed militias that raped and maimed civilians during the civil war in Sierra Leone.

None of this, however, sits well with Pat Robertson. In broadcasts of his 700 Club program, Robertson has criticized President Bush's call for Taylor to step down, has praised Taylor as a "fellow Baptist," and has accused the State Department of being the real cause of Liberia's problems. To quote Robertson's own words:

So we're undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels to take over the country. And how dare the president of the United States say to the duly elected president of another country, 'You've got to step down.'

http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/rr/blrr_rob_taylor.htm

[physioex]

1. I have know this for awhile...

Pat has been in the illegal diamonds in Africa. There was an article in Fortune awhile back...

[donco6]

2. Yes, but I hadn't seen the connection to al-Qaida before.

The Taylor/robertson/diamonds thing is old, but now that we know al-Qaida was financing operations with Liberian diamonds, I think the connection has become even more sinister.

[physioex]

5. I agree this is a new point...

But it is hardly surprising. What else would a person do with the profit from blood diamonds? Surely not food and medicine for the masses...

[donco6]

6. Snort.

Yeah, what a novel concept - actually help the people under your charge.

[Shallah Kali]

3. More interesting Taylor/USA connections

Al Qaeda's Growing Sanctuary
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48221-2004Jul13.html

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In 2000, among those operating simultaneously in Liberia under Taylor were: senior al Qaeda operatives; Hezbollah financiers; Victor Bout, an arms merchant who was supplying weapons across Africa and to both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan; Leonid Minin, a Ukrainian-Israeli drug dealer and arms merchant; and Aziz Nassour, the onetime bagman for Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire and middleman for al Qaeda and Hezbollah.

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Arms trafficker protected: report
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9584448%255E1702,00.html

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BRITAIN had bowed to US pressure to keep the name of a notorious arms trafficker off a list of those subject to planned United Nations sanctions, the Financial Times reported today.

The man is allegedly being used by the US to help supply coalition troops in Iraq.

"London had originally supported moves to freeze Mr (Victor) Bout's assets, but appeared to have reversed its view under pressure from Washington," the newspaper said, citing evidence from several western diplomats

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There is alot more information when I google taylor liberia robertson and taylor liberia al queda. I would post more but my pc is freezing up...

[liberal72]

4. I was thinking the same thing when I read that article today.

n/t

[Coventina]

7. As I posted in an earlier thread today....

Pat Robertson should be getting anally violated in Gitmo right now, in the name of the "War On Terror".

Where is poetic justice when you need it?

[donco6]

8. Oh the irony.

But the visualization has kept me awake.

[slojim240]

9. Why do so many "Christians" lie so much? Pat is one of the biggest.

They must not be afrais of the God they say they believe in...at least they aren't afraid of lightening.

[G_j]

10. he lies

in the glory of knowing he is defiling the compassionate message of Jesus.