President Barack Obama\u2019s deputy national security adviser said that the government of Saudi Arabia had paid \u201cinsufficient attention\u201d to money that was being funneled into terror groups and fueled the rise of Al Qaeda.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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President Barack Obama\u2019s deputy national security adviser said that the government of Saudi Arabia had paid \u201cinsufficient attention\u201d to money that was being funneled into terror groups and fueled the rise of Al Qaeda.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben Rhodes was speaking to David Axelrod in his podcast \u201cThe Axe Files\u201d out Monday when he was asked about the validity of the accusation that the Saudi government was complicit in sponsoring terrorism.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that it\u2019s complicated in the sense that, it\u2019s not that it was Saudi government policy to support Al Qaeda, but there were a number of very wealthy individuals in Saudi Arabia who would contribute, sometimes directly, to extremist groups. Sometimes to charities that were kind of, ended up being ways to launder money to these groups,\u201d Rhodes said. \u201cSo a lot of the money, the seed money if you will, for what became Al Qaeda, came out of Saudi Arabia,\u201d he added. \u201cCould that happen without the government\u2019s awareness?\u201d Axelrod asked. Rhodes said he doesn\u2019t believe the government was \u201cactively trying to prevent that from happening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Barack Obama\u2019s deputy national security adviser said that the government of Saudi Arabia had paid \u201cinsufficient attention\u201d to money that was being funneled into terror groups and fueled the rise of Al Qaeda.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 President Barack Obama\u2019s deputy national security adviser said that the government of Saudi Arabia had paid \u201cinsufficient attention\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[235,38],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-al-qaeda","tag-saudi-arabia"],"yoast_head":"\n