Surprise, Surprise--Our Arab "Friends" Fund the Jihad Without Let Up

Despite U.S. claims that it has made headway in preventing the faithful from siphoning their shekels to violent jihadis, WikiLeaks reveals the dough is still getting to them by hook or by crook (mostly by crook). From the New York Times:

The government cables, sent by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and senior State Department officials, catalog a long list of methods that American officials suspect terrorist financiers are using, from a brazen armed bank robbery in Yemen last year to kidnappings for ransom, drug proceeds in Afghanistan and annual religious pilgrimages to Mecca, where millions of riyals or other forms of currency change hands.
While American officials in their public statements have been relatively upbeat about their progress in disrupting terrorist financing, the internal State Department cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to several news organizations, offer a more pessimistic account, with blunt assessments of the threats to the United States from money flowing to militants affiliated with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba and other groups.

A classified memo sent by Mrs. Clinton last December made it clear that residents of Saudi Arabia and its neighbors, all allies of the United States, are the chief financial supporters of many extremist activities.

With "allies" like Arabs, who needs Iranians?

In light of the above, Harpoon Siddiqui's latest rant about how Canada blew a "healthy" relationship with the UAE seems especially--and delightfully--unhinged.