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Trump trip to Riyadh to help Saudis not to be accountable for terrorism

In his article published in Washington Post website on May 25, The Indian-American Journalist Fareed Zakaria said, “President Trump’s journey to the Middle East illustrated yet again how the country central to the spread of this terrorism, Saudi Arabia, has managed to evade and deflect any responsibility for it.”

“In fact, Trump has given Saudi Arabia a free pass and a free hand in the region,” Washington Post quoted Zakaria as saying.

“For five decades, Saudi Arabia has spread its narrow, puritanical and intolerant version of Islam, originally practiced almost nowhere else, across the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden was Saudi, as were 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorists.”

“And we know, via a leaked email from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in recent years the Saudi government, along with Qatar, has been “providing clandestine financial and logistic support to Daesh and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”

“Saudi nationals make up the second-largest group of foreign fighters for Daesh and, by some accounts, the largest in the terrorist group’s Iraqi operations. The kingdom is in a tacit alliance with al-Qaeda in Yemen.”

“Daesh draws its beliefs from Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi version of Islam,” said Zakaria.

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