Saudis are funding Sunni insurgents who are killing US soldiers

Another of the ISG findings that has been downplayed,

Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash. .....

But the U.S. Iraq Study Group report said Saudis are a source of funding for Sunni Arab insurgents. Several truck drivers interviewed by The Associated Press described carrying boxes of cash from Saudi Arabia into Iraq, money they said was headed for insurgents.....

Some Saudis appear to know the money is headed to Iraq's insurgents, but others merely give it to clerics who channel it to anti-coalition forces, the officials said.

In one recent case, an Iraqi official said $25 million in Saudi money went to a top Iraqi Sunni cleric and was used to buy weapons, including Strela, a Russian shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile. The missiles were purchased from someone in Romania, apparently through the black market, he said......

Saudi Arabia is a key U.S. ally in the Middle East.

I've been desperately waiting for someone to say this out loud. This is how Al Qaeda was funded and formed in Afghanistan in the 80's. This method of funding allows the Saudi government complete deniability while wealthy citizens and Saud family members launder their money through these charities.

(In this article there's also the loose allegation that one of those Strela missiles mentioned above was used to shoot down the f-16 a little over a week ago.) Even if that is untrue, the majority of the medium and heavy weaponry wielded by the Sunnis right now is targeting US forces in Anbar.

$25 million in just one of the transfers.

The AP found and talked to "several truck drivers."

15 of the 32 US soldiers killed in the last 6 days were killed in Anbar.

(The next two photos are US personnel whose aircraft "crashed" in Anbar. One in an F-16 and one in the helicopter crash.)