Saudis Raise Cash for Palestinians

Newsday ^ | April 11 2002 | DONNA ABU-NASR

[knighthawk]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's official television and radio stations expect to raise millions of dollars in aid to families of Palestinian "martyrs" in an 11-hour nationwide telethon that began Thursday.

The ruling Al Saud family inaugurated the campaign Monday, with King Fahd donating $2.7 million, Crown Prince Abdullah giving $1.35 million and Defense Minister Prince Sultan handing out $800,000.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[blackdog]

Let me apply some Bush logic here....If drug use sponsors terrorists, then doesn't buying oil from Saudi's directly sponsor terrorism?

[japaneseghost]

My take on this is that the money is really for a Saudi war chest.

They have a lot of debt, so they're scamming their own people to buy missiles from China.

The Saudi populace is so brainwashed. This is truly sad.

[PsyOp]

Good Evening Ladies & Gentlemen, and welcome to the first annual "Suicide Martyr-Thon." Tonights hosts will be Yassir Arafat and that loveable group of TNT-toting tykes we like to refer to "Yasir's Kids." Our goal tonight is raise enough money to send these eager beavers to Alah with the pull of a fuse and to support their families in the manner to which they'd like to become accustomed.

Our first martyr-candidate is little abduhla. He can't read. He can't write. But he's memorized some key verses from the Koran with the help of his Imam, and now he wants to blow up an infidel. He's only nine years old, but he knows what he wants. Come on folks! Lines are open and operators are waiting......

[Texbob]

The Saudis do most of the terrorist financing. We should take them out before Iraq.

[japaneseghost]

Great links, thanks!

[colorado tanker]

LOL! Our oil dollars at work . . .

[knighthawk]

Whew, got some reading to do.

And here is one for you:

Saudis deny giving funds to suicide bombers (YEAH, RIGHT ALERT)