Jordanian lender faces Hamas funding claims in NY trial - FT.com
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When the arguments begin, likely to be later this week, the trial is expected to focus on transactions performed by Arab Bank for charities in the Middle East and what their link was to the attacks for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
One particular charity is the Saudi Committee, which the plaintiffs argued in a court document in 2004 was part of “the backbone of the donor base and operational budgets of Hamas”.
Saudi government officials have repeatedly said that the country does not support terrorism and in 2002 the Saudi embassy in the US rejected Israeli criticism of its charities, saying that it did not finance suicide bombers but helped ordinary Palestinians. A Saudi government spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.