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Hamas thanked Saudi prince for aid: Paper


Hamas thanked Saudi prince for aid: Paper
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,210381,00.html?

WASHINGTON - A senior leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas personally thanked Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz last year for the financial support his group received, The New York Times reported yesterday, quoting a document summarising the meeting.
Visiting Riyadh last October, senior Hamas leader Khalid Mishaal and other representatives of his group thanked their Saudi hosts for continuing 'to send aid to the people through the civilian and popular channels, despite all the American pressures exerted on them'.



'This is indeed a brave posture deserving appreciation,' Mr Mishaal added, according to the document.
The meeting was held by the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, a Riyadh-based charitable organisation.
A summary of the meeting, written by a Hamas official, was seized by the Israeli military during a raid in Gaza last December and given recently to The New York Times by a former Israeli official, the daily said.

A Saudi official told the daily the document was 'trash'.

'There is nothing in it except the views and perceptions of Hamas members who attended this conference,' said the Saudi official whose identity was not given.
The allegations made in the document throw light on an ongoing US and European investigation into suspected Saudi aid to Hamas, said to be behind many of the suicide bombings.
US law enforcement officials, the Times said, estimate that half of Hamas' yearly US$10 million (S$17.5 million) operating budget comes from individual donors in Saudi Arabia.

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Looks like New York Times has some interesting piece of evidence!
And the Bush administration let them go and tried to hide the evidence!