Rand Paul: Saudis Funding Terrorism Worldwide
- Rand Paul: Saudis Funding Terrorism Worldwide
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Republican Senator Rand Paul has slated Saudi Arabia as a sponsor of terrorism, saying the United States can no longer be blasé about the bad behavior of the kingdom.
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Speaking at a Montana rally on Saturday with Donald Trump Jr., the Republican senator condemned the Saudi-led brutal war on the impoverished Yemen, which, so far, has killed more than 15,000 Yemenis and wounded thousands of others.
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“We have to think through this idea that everything is going to be blindly for Saudi Arabia, they’re involved in a war in Yemen where tens of thousands of civilians are dying,” said Paul, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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The US along with the UK and France have been providing weapons and intelligence to Saudi Arabia and the UAE over the course of the unprovoked war, which initially consisted of a bombing campaign, but was later coupled with a naval blockade and the deployment of ground forces to Yemen.
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“Cutting off the arms sales will make them wake up,” Paul told The Hill before he went onstage at the rally. “In fact, their air force would be grounded in two or three months if they didn’t have spare parts.”
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