Saudis Paid Al-Qaeda Not to Attack
The Saudi royal family paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to al-Qaeda and the Taliban in exchange for an agreement that they wouldn’t attack targets in Saudi Arabia. This was clearly a waste of money. The tragedy is not only that al-Qaeda didn’t keep their part of the bargain?they used that money to finance training camps in Afghanistan that were attended by 911 hijackers. Without the Saudi payoff, 911 might not have happened.
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