US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned last year in a leaked classified memo that donors in Saudi Arabia were the “most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide”.
She said it was “an ongoing challenge” to persuade Saudi officials to treat such activity as a strategic priority.
The groups funded include al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba, she added.
So we are paying the people who are paying others to kill us? Do I understand this?
Well, duh! So we paid good money to get this “intelligence”? Do you mean anyone thought otherwise? Especially given that Osama bin Laden comes from a very wealthy Saudi family?