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| Middle East |
| Oh, how the Soddy money rolls in... |
| 2002-07-14 |
| A new Israeli report relayed to the United States details what officials term has been Saudi financing for Palestinian insurgents. The report is based on Palestinian Authority documents captured during the Israeli military offensive in the West Bank in April. The documents detail the flow of funds by Saudi government institutions to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The PA did not receive direct Saudi funding, according to the documents. "The documents clearly unveil that Saudi Arabia transferred inter alia large sums of money in a systematic and ongoing manner to families of suicide terrorists to the Hamas organization and to persons and entities identified with Hamas," the Israeli report, which has been relayed to the United States, said. We knew that... A source of funding for Hamas, the report said, was the Riyad-based Saudi Committee for Support of the Palestinian Uprising, Al Quds, an organization headed by Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz. The committee reported the transfer of $55.7 million mostly to the families of suicide bombers and to the families of imprisoned or injured Palestinian insurgents. No surprises, but it's nice to have it down on paper... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |