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Source: http://nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311121042.asp
Saudi Protection Racket Fails
National Review) Rich Lowry - The Saudi royal family can only be thinking, "What good is protection money if it doesn't protect you?" But the Saudi-funded International Islamic Relief Organization, the Benevolence International Foundation, and many other groups have all been implicated in terrorist financing. It is possible to be a target of radicals and accommodate them as well. Saudi Arabia is a classic "straddling state." Like the Pakistani government and the Palestinian Authority, it faces a radical opposition and often responds by trying to co-opt it. The U.S. must insist that the straddle end.