Senior officials of Saudi Arabia have funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to charitable groups and other organisations that may have helped finance the Sept 11 attacks, a still-classified section of a Congressional report on the hijackings says. The 28-page section of the report was deleted from the nearly 900-page declassified version released on Thursday by a joint committee of the House and Senate intelligence committees. Quoting people who have read it, The New York Times says the chapter focuses on the role foreign governments played in the hijackings, but centres almost entirely on Saudi Arabia. The classified chapter represented a searing indictment of how Saudi Arabia’s ruling elite have, under the guise of support for Islamic charities, distributed millions of dollars to terrorists through an informal network of Saudi nationals, including some in the United States. Full Story
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