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Leaked US documents highlight Saudi terror fund woes

CAIRO  — Saudi Arabia made "important progress" in aggressively trying to curtail the flow of funds to terrorist groups, but the oil rich kingdom and its Gulf Arab neighbors still remain major sources of financing for militant movements like al-Qaida and the Taliban, according to leaked US government documents.
The findings, detailed in a series of internal US diplomatic cables spanning a period of several years, painted a stark picture of Washington's challenges in convincing key allies of the need to clamp down on terror funding, much of which is believed to stem from private donors in those nations.