Saudi to open militant-monitoring center during Trump visit

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



Sat May 20, 2017 | 9:03am EDT

Saudi Arabia is taking new steps to counter the messages of Islamic State and other Islamist militant groups online, a senior Saudi official said on Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump began a visit to the kingdom.

Mohammed al-Issa, secretary-general of the Saudi-based Muslim World League, told reporters the kingdom will open a coordinating center on Sunday in an inauguration ceremony attended by Trump and Saudi King Salman.

Saudi Arabia aims to take the fight beyond military action "because we know these groups can only be defeated if we defeat their ideology", he said.

"Al Qaeda did not collapse after the fall of the Taliban because its ideology still existed."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-gulf-centre-idUSKCN18G09P?il=0

[nycbos]

1. You mean they will use the money we give them to...

... fund wahhabists and they will give it to terrorists.

[hedda_foil]

2. Excuse me, but isn't Al Qaeda's ideology Saudi Wahabbism?

This kind of setup isn't put together in a few months, so it almost certainly be was initiated during the Obama administration. But it strikes me as very iffy at minimum and potentially disastrous... especially when it's assisted by more than a hundred billion dollars of arms sales.

[Turbineguy]

3. Hah!

I read "mentoring center"!

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[yurbud]

5. that would fit their track record more

[yurbud]

6. "We are very concerned about their beheadings"

"They are not using a large sword and aren't doing nearly enough of them."

[Eyeball_Kid]

7. This should be a piece of cake for the Saudis because

they give financial support to Islamist militants!

All they have to do is read the names that they wrote on their checks.