Al Qaida has $500M Budget in Saudi Arabia

Middle East Newsline ^ | 2005 Jul 4

[Wiz]

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Al Qaida was determined to have a budget of more than $500 million for its insurgency campaign in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi security sources said Al Qaida has the assets in cash, property, firearms, munitions and precious metals throughout the kingdom. The sources said Al Qaida has used the budget to recruit and train insurgents in both Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Saudi authorities said Al Qaida network leaders might have raised the money from abroad. They said that neither Abdul Aziz Al Muqrin, killed in a Saudi shootout in June 2004, nor his predecessors were regarded as wealthy. Salah Al Awfi was also not regarded as the source of the funding.

[Wiz]

ping

[EdHallick]

Saudi authorities said Al Qaida network leaders might have raised the money from abroad.

A broad? What broad?

[Joe Boucher]

This can't be.
The saudi foreign minister stated just a few months ago that the saudi kingdom had completely solved its terrorist problem and that there were no more active terrorists in country.
IDIOT.
Hope the"royal house of saud" meets a timely and brutal end.

[river rat]

Personally, I regard the House of Saud, and their "holy" men - the Wahhabi clerics, as the LEADERS of the Militant Islamic lunatics who use AQ and acts of terror as their preferred strategy of war against Western Civiliation..

They KNOW -- that once American citizens realize that the House of Saud, and the Wahhabi clerics are BEHIND everything -- we will demand the total destruction of Saudi Arabia and "other Arab nations" with the same ambition..

Semper Fi