By Gordon Duff and Press TV

However, in 2011, that changed. Using social networks, Kuwaiti charities, ostensibly collecting funds intended for Syrian refugees, stepped well over the line into pure barbarism.
Charities, many not yet on terror lists, began soliciting funds to purchase weapons, finance attacks on Christian villages and, in extreme cases, place bounties on the heads of members of targeted groups.
According to a Brookings Institute study from 2013, wealthy Kuwaitis used charities to recruit terrorists to follow their specific agendas, with as many as 1000 Kuwait-funded groups operating through Syria and Iraq, each under different orders, often fighting each other.
Over 100,000 Kuwaitis around the world took part in this effort with some listing the weapons they purchased on their Facebook pages. Many of these individuals are permanent residents of the US, Canada, Great Britain and other nations where, under any “normal” circumstance, such an act would land them in “Gitmo” or worse, but nothing was done.
One problem, of course, is that weapons designated for the eradication of Christian settlements in Syria would end up financing car bombs in Baghdad.
The United States only began to notice when Kuwaiti interference led to infighting that derailed American efforts to overthrow the Assad government. Only then did the massive influx of terror funding from Kuwait suddenly become an issue.
BACKGROUND
The Obama administration has officially named Kuwait as top funder of terrorists in the world. In a statement by David Cohen, Treasury Undersecretary heading efforts to trace the source of terrorist funds, Kuwait has used a series of charities to wage war, not just on Syria but its neighbor, Iraq as well.
According to Cohen, speaking with the full authority of President Obama:
“Kuwait…is the epicenter of funding for terrorist groups.”
The original document citing Kuwait as Al Qaeda’s largest terror funding source was originally published on the Treasury Department’s website on April 4, 2011 but received no publicity until the Washington Post revived the story today:
“Until recently, tiny, oil-rich Kuwait avoided public scrutiny as attention to terrorist financing focused more sharply on Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. But the fact that those countries have made strides in addressing the problem, a senior Treasury official said, has ‘shed more light on the less forward-leaning steps taken in Kuwait.’”
Several issues immediately come to light, citing American duplicity in dealing with very real terror threats that have led to not only massacres and nerve gas attacks in Syria but over 8000 terror bombing deaths in Iraq as well in 2013 alone.
1. Washington has only begun to track real Al Qaeda funding during the last 30 days, almost 13 years after that group reputedly attacked the United States with four hijacked airliners, killing thousands.
2. Fabricated intelligence on Iraq and Al Qaeda, sourced to an Israeli psychological warfare military unit, led to not only the destruction of Iraq but the collapse of the American economy as well.
3. Since 9/11, the US has chosen to ignore Kuwait’s role as the largest financier of world terrorism, instead continually citing both Iran and Pakistan, without ever presenting evidence.
4. While America has waged a virtual “witch hunt” for supposed terrorist funders around the world, kidnapping some, killing others with drones, the primary funders of Al Qaeda were entertained at the White House on numerous occasions.
In a Brookings Institute paper by Elizabeth Dickenson, published in December 2013, Kuwait was cited as the primary source, not just for funding of Al Qaeda but for broad conflicts between Sunni and Shiite and for financing the training of thousands of heavily armed jihadists now operating in Western Europe, North America and around the world.
“Today, there is evidence that Kuwaiti donors have backed rebels who have committed atrocities and who are either directly linked to al Qaeda or cooperate with its affiliated brigades on the ground. Fundraisers posted photos of cars and jewelry that had been sold to support the mujahedeen. They also earmarked specific costs for weapons. For example, advertisements would state that an $800 donation would buy a directed missile or an RPG for the fighters. Several of these new donors—including Herbash, Tabtabae, and Hajjaj al-Ajmi, also travelled to Syria to visit the brigades they helped fund, broadcasting their travels by social media.” (Brookings Institution)
KUWAIT, “THE OTHER SPECIAL COUNTRY”
Since Saddam’s Republican Guard entered Kuwait in 1990, that nation has enjoyed a “Get Out of Jail Free” card. Most remember the stories, babies being taken out of incubators, thrown out of windows by Iraqi soldiers. These stories, now known to have been written in Tel Aviv by “the usual suspects,” have long been an embarrassment to the United States.
On January 26, 2011, Texas Congressman Ron Paul went before the House of Representatives with leaked copies of State Department cables received from WikiLeaks. Paul read these astounding documents into the Congressional Record (page H203), documents outlining how the Bush (41) administration had given Saddam the “green light” to attack Kuwait.
America had authorized the invasion of Kuwait, a simply “follow-up” as Saddam saw it, to the decade-long Iraqi imposed war on Iran, a war where Bush family members supplied poison gas to one side and anti-armor and air defense systems to the other. They then used the proceeds to run narcotics into the US, an effort made public by investigative journalist Michael Ruppert, who died recently at 63. The family narcotics business is not just alive and well but has added an Afghan chapter, but that’s another story, an ongoing story at that.
Where Kuwait had become “a means to an end” for Bush family globalist ambitions, prominent Kuwaitis took on the “Teflon” armor of the other Bush family “partners in crime,” the Israelis. Drowning in oil cash, drowning in profits from logistical support of America’s Iraqi debacle, power-mad Kuwaitis became the conduits for funding for nearly all world terrorism, an unaccountable “empty hole” where money could go in dirty and come out “clean.”
Cash from government “slush funds,” drug cartels, the wealthy but criminally insane, and there are so many of those, could safely disappear into Kuwait and show up in Nigeria, funding Boko Harum slaughter, show up in Pakistan funding car bombs by the dozen or even in America, buying political power through newly elected and “morally flexible” Tea Party legislators.
CONCLUSION
It was perfectly OK for Kuwait to fund terrorism when only the right innocent people were dying by the tens of thousands or more. It was even OK for Kuwaiti cash to fund bombings around the world. Only when Kuwaiti internal politics derailed the “cohesion” of Syrian rebels and Al Qaeda jihadists, did the Washington Post, Brookings Institution and Obama White House take notice.
If promises made are promises kept and the money is followed, some very surprising individuals are going to be facing serious unpleasantness. Today we read that something is finally going to be done about terror financing. What will really happen when, as so many of us have known for so very long, that those really responsible are “us?”
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