On the Edge of War

EDITORIAL You Have the Keys To Stop the Terror Wave: Use Them June 13-The mass murder rampage in Orlando, Florida, by alleged Islamic State follower Omar Mateen, is but the latest in a series of horrific terrorist attacks that all flow from a thirty-year-old "oil deal" between the British and Saudi monarchies. That deal has given them great power and great hidden resources to create today's global jihadist apparatus, for attacks against nations. Until and unless that Anglo-Saudi apparatus is exposed-as we can do with the exposure of the 9/11 documents kept secret for 15 years-and dismantled, the world will face blind terrorist attacks constantly, in any locale at any time. President Obama became a knowing and willing agent of the British and Saudis in his perpetual wars, which have spread chaos across the Mideast and North Africa, and terrorism across the world. What a "coincidence" that Obama is meeting today with Saudi Crown Prince Salman in Washington, while his CIA Director, John Brennan, is going all out to try to "exonerate" Saudi Arabia from its role in setting up the 9/11 attacks and killing 3,000 Americans. Both Obama and Prince Salman meet with bloody hands. EIR Founding Editor Lyndon LaRouche noted, today, that he has been aware of this British/Saudi power for evil for decades; and that this contributed to his making a very public, published warning back on Jan. 3, 2001, that a major terrorist attack on the United States was threatened in the Fall of 2001. "We are still dealing with the same case, even in yesterday's mass murder in Orlando," LaRouche said. The young Orlando killer had gone to Saudi Arabia in 2011 and in 2012, while employed by the British international security firm G4S; and came back an apparently very changed personality. LaRouche emphasized that because Obama's wars are leading immediately now into a confrontation with Russia, and threatening World War III, it is essential to expose the Saudi/British hands-starting with 9/11-and force Obama out. In 1985, Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, entered into a long-term partnership with the British government of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Under the cover of an oil-for-weapons agreement called Al-Yamamah (Arabic for "the dove"), the British and Saudi monarchies established an offshore fund which grew to huge proportions, and has been used for conducting global terrorism against targeted nations. During the more than 30 years since Al-Yamamah was launched, the British and Saudi monarchies have amassed well over $100 billion in a string of offshore secret funds, o finance terrorism, assassinations, coup plots and other crimes like the current Saudi/British/U.S. invasion and bombing of Yemen. Under Al-Yamamah, the British arms manufacturer BAE Systems provided an estimated $40 billion in weapons to the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation, and an additional estimated $20 billion in bribes to Saudi princes and defense officials. In return, the Saudis provided 600,000 barrels of oil per day to the British. Through the Anglo-Dutch oil giants British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell, the oil was sold on the international spot markets, generating hundreds of billions of dollars in profits. An EIR study in 2007 estimated that at minimum, $100 billion in excess funds was amassed and deposited in offshore secret bank accounts for use in joint Anglo-Saudi covert operations. In an official biography, Prince Bandar boasted of using these covert funds, and of the special nature of the Al-Yamamah deal, which could have only been carried out between two monarchies that could act above the law and blur the distinctions between public and private actions. ISIS, in other words, has definitely not been the world's richest Islamist terrorist operation.