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TERRORISTS FINANCING - $$$ FOLLOW THE MONEY $$$
Fri Aug 1 05:19:05 2003
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TERRORISTS FINANCING - $$$ FOLLOW THE MONEY $$$
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Hearing on Financing Terrorism - HURRY, WATCH THIS BEFORE IT GOES DOWN!
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) chairs a hearing on the origins, organization & prevention of terrorism financing, with a focus on the role of Saudi Arabia.
THURSDAY ON C-SPAN AT 10AM ET
http://www.c-span.org/

Financing Terror?
The Saudi government says it has cracked down on Islamic extremists. But new allegations suggest Riyadh has increased its support for Hamas. Plus, American efforts to shut down a source of funding for terrorists may be faltering
http://www.msnbc.com/news/946237.asp?0cv=CA00&cp1=1

July 30 — Even as the White House tries to tamp down the furor over alleged Saudi links to the September 11 terror attacks, a U.S. Senate panel is poised to stoke the fire even further. At a hearing this Thursday, NEWSWEEK has learned, it will unveil new allegations that the Saudis are continuing to funnel millions of dollars through Islamic charities that are winding up in the coffers of organized terror groups

U.S. AND Israeli intelligence officials have assembled fresh data showing that Saudi government-sponsored charities have actually stepped up their financial support of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas—even while the Saudis insist they have dramatically intensified their own internal crackdown of Islamic extremists, according to sources familiar with evidence that is to be presented at a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on terrorism financing.

“Unfortunately, while the Saudis appear to be taking their own domestic threat seriously, there is no indication that they have scaled back their support for Hamas,” according to an internal 11-page Senate staff memo obtained by NEWSWEEK. “The Israeli national assessment is that Saudi Arabia today funds more than 50 percent of the needs of Hamas and the Saudi percentage in the total foreign aid to Hamas is actually growing. U.S. assessments [of Saudi funding of Hamas] are even higher.”

The intelligence estimates on the level of Saudi support for Hamas—which is on the official State Department terror list—are based in part on recent documents seized by the Israeli military, sources said. At least some of the documents will be presented at the hearing by Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, and could prove highly embarrassing for the Saudis. One shows that, as recently as Oct. 29, 2002, Khaled Mishal, a top leader of Hamas, was the guest of a Saudi government-backed charity, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, at a convention in Riyadh that was sponsored by Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto ruler of the country. The captured Palestinian document shows that Saudi officials reassured Hamas of continued funding, according to the Senate memo.

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