[RichardEdward]

It is not just iraq giving them money... the USA should decrease the aid it gives everytime a suicide bomber strikes

[cardinal4]

Im sure some of those Islamic charities here in the US were funneling money for the Israeli bounties,before they were brought under scrutiny.

[Principled]

These countries aren't even trying to hide the fact that they support terrorism. They do not perceive there to be any consequences for such.

Well, freedom isn't free; and they will suffer consequences. Those who value freedom will not easily give it up- The US, Brits, Aussies and a few others will not allow themselves to be overrun by extreme feaks wishing an end to civilization.

It's getting closer and closer to being "Us or them". I guarantee you that many of them will die. Their countries will be ruined save the resources we choose to guard.

[The Great Satan]

I would suggest that we keep in mind the difference between Iraqi state support for terrorist proxies, and the support that is coming from individuals in Saudi and Qatar. Not that we don't have issues with the governments of those two fiefdoms, but I wouldn't lump them with Iraq anymore than I would Egypt.

[Mike Darancette]

One of the US victims should sue the offending governments and charities in civil court.

[RangeRatt]

have you ever seen an Israeli ambulance? Every last one of them has the names of the Americans who donated money to purchase (in both hebrew and english) them and send them to Israel. I stumbled across this a number of years ago in Jacksonville at the port, while picking up a car that I had shipped back from overseas. Thought it strange then, and still do today.

[Rome2000]

Gee, maybe the Mossad should send the families a present as well.

[GailA]

btt

[spanky_mcfarland]

I envision a Jerry Lewis telethon wherein US citizens call and pledge money for these suicide bombers to off themselves without injury to others.

"Lets go to the tote board!!"

[Mo1]

She said she plans to put the money toward buying an apartment. She wants to move her family from the small place they’ve been renting for more than 20 years. The money she received is about half the cost of a small apartment in Nablus

That is just sick .. and she calls herself a mother ..

[Thisiswhoweare]

Long past time to hold them accoountable, we cannot accept their outward offers of peace while they pour gasoline on the flames. Time to dispense with the PC rhetoric from the media, they support the terrorists - they are terrorists.

Then treat them accordingly.

[Hibernius Druid]

In that part of the world $25,000 must be an incredibly huge amount, eh what?

[a_witness]

It was the sons of Saudi Arabia who murdered our citizens on September 11th ...

[cookcounty]

"“We go to every family and give them a check,”

Oh, oh. Somebody's bank is gonna get busted.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

In the spirit of the Iraqis, we should send the suicide bomber's family something, too. May I suggest something containing high explosives?

[Rockitz]

Time to push our technology in fuel cells and solar and let these ba$tard$ choke on their oil. There's no reason to have these countries as allies other than to buy their oil.

[McGavin999]

"Listen children, mommie wants a new house. You kids talk amoung yourself and decide who's going to die so we can move".

Some of these people are cockroaches.

[EternalHope]

If this is true, the House of Saud must put a stop to it immediately.

If they refuse, the House of Saud must go.

(If was questionable if they were saving anyway.)

[MeekOneGOP]

But Saddam is not the only one giving money. Charities from Saudi Arabia and Qatar — both U.S. allies — pay money to families of Palestinians killed in the fighting, including suicide bombers.

The mother of Jamal Nasser, a 23-year-old architecture student who died trying to ram an explosives-laden car into a bus carrying Jewish settlers, said she received a check for $10,000 from Iraq and another for $5,000 from Saudi Arabia. She said she plans to put the money toward buying an apartment. She wants to move her family from the small place they’ve been renting for more than 20 years. The money she received is about half the cost of a small apartment in Nablus.

Now isn't that precious? How thoughtful!

Gee, I could say that these people aren't people but are more like wild animals, but that would be a high insult to animals everywhere...........

Hi, Mom! No, no!
Everything's going just as planned!
Mark Steyn Link Excerpt:

Just as revealing was the reaction from the European media. In the American press, you read things like: "An observer to the bomb-blast scene described a dead young girl, perhaps 10 or 12, lying on the ground with her eyes open, looking as if she was surprised." For Europe, on the other hand, the main significance of this development was that it was "unhelpful" to the "peace process". Before I'm accused of being more upset about dead Jewish than dead Muslim kids, let me say that I take people at their own estimation: in the Palestinian Authority schools, they teach their children about the glories of martyrdom; indeed, the careers guidance counsellor appears to have little information on alternative employment prospects; at social events, the moppets are dressed up as junior jihadi, with toy detonators and play bombs. It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do. So does Saddam Hussein, whose government (the subject of an admiring article in this week's Spectator) gives $25,000 to the family of each Palestinian suicide bomber. So does the Arab League, which at last year's summit passed a resolution hailing the "spirit of sacrifice" of the Palestinian "martyrs" and thus licensed Wednesday's massacre. As for the "peace process", those Europeans who, just a few months ago, were urging the Americans to cease operations for Ramadan evidently feel no compunction to demand from Chairman Arafat and his dark subsidiaries any similar "bombing pause" for Passover.

In the days after September 11, we were told that Muslims had great respect for their fellow "people of the book" - ie, Jews and Christians. This ought to be so: after all, the dramatis personae of the Koran include Abraham, Moses, David, John the Baptist, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. It's one thing to believe that the Israelis are occupiers and oppressors and that the Zionist state should not exist. But no Muslim with any understanding of his shared heritage could in good conscience blow up a Passover Seder. It marks a new low in the Palestinians' descent into nihilism - though, as usual, the silence of the imams is deafening. As for the nonchalance of the Europeans, that too should not surprise us: in my experience, the Continent's Christians, practising and nominal, find the ceremonies of Jewish life faintly creepy, notwithstanding that these were also the rituals by which their own Saviour lived.

But this year, when the Christians' solar calendar and the Jews' lunar calendar have coincided and Easter and Passover fall together, it's a safe bet that George W Bush will make the connection. The first time I ever heard him speak, he spoke openly about his faith and about Christ in a way that would be unimaginable for a British politician. He will know all the details - "the baby tried to crawl away, but it died, too".......................