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IT'S STILL THE SAUDIS By STEPHEN SCHWARTZ A GROUP calling itself "the Secret Group of al Qaeda's Jihad in Europe" has claimed "credit" for Thursday's deadly bombings in London. Some refer to the perpetrators of this latest horror as "an unknown group." But there is nothing mysterious about the background of the London atrocities. First, and foremost, there is nothing secret, unknown or hidden about the prime source of financing for the terrorists: Saudi Arabia. As the leading Saudi human-rights activist, Ali al-Ahmed, of the Washington-based Saudi Institute, puts it, "all the roads lead to Riyadh." The Saudi kingdom...

Israeli ambulance workers carry a wounded victim of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, March 21, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and at least two other people and wounded more than 40 on a busy Jerusalem shopping street. REUTERS/Nir Elias Israeli ambulance workers carry a wounded victim from the scene of a suicide bomb in Jerusalem, March 21 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a central Jerusalem shopping street on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding more than 40 people, police said. REUTERS/Ammar Awad A Palestinian gunman holds a rifle in...