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Nearly a year ago, Khalid Mishaal, a senior leader of Hamas, the militant Palestinian organization, attended a charitable fund-raising conference here where he talked at length with Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto Saudi ruler. According to a summary of the meeting written by a Hamas official, Mr. Mishaal and other Hamas representatives thanked their Saudi hosts for continuing "to send aid to the people through the civilian and popular channels, despite all the American pressures exerted on them." "This is indeed a brave posture deserving appreciation," the Hamas officials said, the document said.

The American people are ahead of Bush is understanding that the Saudis are the primary enemy, regardless of political bleatings and the apologists for jihad who seem to pray and supplicate themselves on the altar of Saudi money.

To all these people, the continuing worldwide carnage financed and ideologically motivated by Saudi is immaterial and irrelevant to the acquisition of Saudi money, liberally handed out by the Saudis, to mollify their consciences and ignore the rivers of blood, bodies and limbs that define the most enduring legacy of Saud.