"al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations still have ready access to financial resources, and that fact constitutes an ongoing threat to the United States." # Saudi Arabia has not fully implemented its new laws and regulations, and because of that, opportunities for the witting or unwitting financing of terrorism persist. # There is no evidence that Saudi Arabia has taken public punitive actions against any individual for financing terror. As a result, Saudi Arabia has yet to demand personal accountability in its efforts to combat terrorist financing and, more broadly and fundamentally, to de-legitimize these activities. # Saudi Arabia continues to export radical extremism. "Saudi Arabia funds the global propagation of Wahabism, a brand of Islam that, in some instances, supports militancy... We are concerned that this massive spending is helping to create the next generation of terrorists." The task force recommends that: 1. U.S. policymakers build a new framework for U.S.-Saudi relations. |