Wikileaks: Saudis ‘chief funders of Sunni militants’
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.
The memo, released by Wikileaks, also criticised efforts to combat militants by the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait.
Meanwhile, a lawyer for the founder of the Wikileaks website said he was holding back secret material for release if anything happened to him.
He told the BBC that a rape case being prepared in Sweden against Julian Assange, an Australian national, was politically motivated.
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on Dec 6 2010. Filed under Home Slide, Middle East.
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