Posted on 04/04/2006 9:36:57 PM PDT by dervish
Saudi Arabia must do a better job at ferreting out major individual donors who continue to fund terrorism abroad, including in Iraq, a top U.S. Treasury official said on Tuesday.
Stuart Levey, the Treasury's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Saudi Arabia had made significant strides in counterterrorism efforts in recent years and that the kingdom was "doing an excellent job" fighting operatives of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network at home.
But he told a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee that concerns remained, including the existence of so-called "deep-pocket donors" and the abuse of charities to fund militants.
"Is money leaving Saudi Arabia to fund terrorism abroad? Yes," said Levey, who has traveled to Saudi Arabia twice in the last two months. "Undoubtedly, some of that money is going to Iraq. And it's going to Southeast Asia and it's going to any other place where there are terrorists."
He said Saudi Arabia had taken steps to curb terrorism financing, but had failed to set up a special charity commission to regulate the sector, as it had pledged. He said rules implemented as a stop-gap measure in the interim "haven't been uniformly implemented."
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NO I DON'T BELIEVE IT.
The Saudis are peaceful Wahhibis.
Another juicy target.
Individuals? How about their so-called Government...
Make a choice and make it soon. Got it?
"Saudi Arabia must do a better job at ferreting out major individual donors who continue to fund terrorism abroad, including in ..." America?
They are a very fiendly country..
Oh, say it isn't so.
Bears---woods
Muslimes--psychopathic retards!
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