(Jerusalem Post) Barry Rubin - Riyadh has been a major financier of terrorism and propagandist for the main ideology motivating such behavior. Most of the September 11 hijackers were Saudis. The Saudis have never accepted responsibility for these acts - which its leaders often claim were a Zionist or American plot - and it has not taken very effective action to change the situation. In contrast, Saudi liberals warn that the real source of terrorism is not some foreign plot but the result of the extremist ideas implanted among Saudis by their own school system, mosques, and media.
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