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| Captured Saudi "terrorists" had large quantities of charity cash |
| 2003-12-22 |
| Large quantities of cash discovered on some of the suspects that Saudi Arabia captured as part of a campaign to uproot militants came from charity boxes that did not comply with official rules, a Saudi spokesman said. "During the investigations with the terrorists who were caught, it became clear that some of them carried large quantities of money, and its sources were charity boxes that did not comply with official standards and regulations," Saud al-Musaybih, press relations officer for the Saudi interior ministry told the daily Al-Watan. Tap...tap, nope. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #10 *snicker* And Pravda was/is a news agency, too. They don't call it The Magic Kingdom for nothing. |
| Posted by: .com 2003-12-22 10:48:22 PM |
| #9 Wait just a minute here...this evening I read at LGF an article purporting to show the Kingdom is virtually crime free. Now mind you the crime stats don't take into account "honor killings", revenge killings, revenge rapes, murder or assaults on Chritians, or the everyday robbery, but what the hey: it's a controlled and safe environment. Makes Singapore look like the Wild, Wild West. Surely the Saudis are not involved in any anti-social behavior? Are they....? |
| Posted by: Mark 2003-12-22 9:35:38 PM |
| #8 Glenn, I think they fear their own citizens most of all. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-12-22 8:12:16 PM |
| #7 SH #6: Would they care? |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-22 2:12:12 PM |
| #6 You could also use the boxes to gauge the support of the poor for |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-12-22 1:52:51 PM |
| #5 I'd think the Royals would want the jihadis to know where the money was coming from. Or maybe they do. |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-22 1:42:59 PM |
| #4 Who says the royals aren't delivering the cash inside "chairty" boxes? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-12-22 1:23:28 PM |
| #3 .com, I would think that the cans are a subterfuge. Make it look like a grass roots effort when it's really the royals funding the charities with wads of hundreds. Your guess would be much more reliable than mine, though. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-12-22 11:59:21 AM |
| #2 about the size of a small box of Grape Nuts Wot? Grape Nuts, aka the dentists' friend? That's an obscure measure, I thought Cocoa Krispies were the Ranburg standard of choice. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-22 11:29:16 AM |
| #1 There's something odd about this story. The charity "boxes" I have seen (and I've seen hundreds - in almost every sort of store or shop by the register) are actually metal cans approx 2" thick x 5" wide x 10" tall (about the size of a small box of Grape Nuts) with a slot in the metal top for coins & folded bills. I would guess that most cans like these contain mostly coins (change at the checkout stand ala Jerry's Kids containers) - and are pretty heavy relative to the value of the money within - 100 halalas per riyal, 1 SR = approx $0.27 USD. There must've been a bunch of them full of these low-value coins to qualify as "Large quantities of cash" - and the weight would be substantial. Prolly driving truckloads of these puppies around for everything in the story to match up... As for those pecky regulations, perhaps the cans were missing the official stamp indicating the Royal baksheesh on the zakat had been paid. |
| Posted by: .com 2003-12-22 10:36:42 AM |