Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait Must Stop Funding Extremists, Says Hillary Clinton
US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton says Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait must stop funding extremists in the region.
An “area that demands attention is preventing radicalization and countering efforts by ISIS and other international terrorist networks to recruit in the United States and Europe, for starters, it is long past time for the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Kuwaitis and others to stop their citizens from funding extremist organizations,” Clinton said in a national security speech in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday.
“And they should stop supporting radical schools and mosques around the world that have set too many young people on a path toward extremism.”
“We have to do a better job intercepting ISIL’ communications, tracking and analyzing social media posts,” she said, adding, “I have laid out a plan to defeat ISIL.”
Clinton made the remarks in the wake of Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, where some 50 people were killed and many others were injured when a gunman, identified as a Daesh sympathizer named Omar Mateen, attacked a gay nightclub.
The former secretary of state called for a ban on assault rifles and promised to fight for stricter gun laws and stop “lone wolves” who conduct terrorist and hate crimes.
“We have to make it harder for people who should not have those weapons of war,” she said. “And that may not stop every shooting, or every terrorist attack, but it will stop some and it will save lives and it will protect our first responders.”
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