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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/national/26SAUD.html
Classified Section of Sept. 11 Report Faults Saudi Rulers
(New York Times) - Senior officials of Saudi Arabia have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to charitable groups and other organizations that may have helped finance the September 2001 attacks, a still-classified section of a Congressional report on the hijackings says, according to people who have read it. The 28-page section of the report was deleted from the nearly 900-page declassified version released on Thursday. The chapter focuses on the role foreign governments played in the hijackings, but centers almost entirely on Saudi Arabia. Some people who have read the classified chapter said it 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 U.S.