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Saddam, the ATM of Al Qaeda By Christopher S. Carson FrontPageMagazine.com | November 15, 2004 The Report of the 9/11 Commission has been digested, and the news media outlets have seized upon it as confirmation of their view that al Qaeda is a kind of purely stateless entity that never had "operational links" with rogue states like Iraq. Somehow, goes the thrust of the Report, Osama bin Laden was for years able to finance, train and supply an international terrorist corporation that had ongoing jihad operations in fifty countries - by himself, on no more than a $30 million personal...

The Saudi royal family sponsored what some are calling a TV "Terror-thon" yesterday - an eleven hour state sponsored fund-raiser for Palestinian "martyrs" broadcast on government-owned satellite channels. King Fahd himself kicked off the event with a whopping $2.7 million donation to the families of those killed in the so-called Palestinian intifada against Israel. Despite a warning from Secretary of State Colin Powell last Sunday that funding for families of Palestinians killed in recent violence "incentivises" terrorism, Saudi spokespeople denied any connection. "Reports that Saudi Arabia, or any group within the kingdom, is paying suicide bombers are baseless and false,"...