{
  "id": 15551440,
  "title": "25 years after 9/11, documents reveal Saudi elite funding for Al-Qaeda",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/25-years-after-9-11-documents-reveal-saudi-elite-funding-for-al-qaeda",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-18T18:30:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/10/18/25-years-after-9-11-documents-reveal-saudi-elite-funding-for-al-qaeda_6758737_4.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "'On the Saudi Trail of the 9/11 Attacks' (2/4). Osama bin Laden may have been treated as persona non grata in Riyadh and pushed into exile, but declassified CIA documents show massive cash flows from the kingdom funded Al-Qaeda until 2003. Washington preferred to keep things quiet, so as not to offend the oil-rich monarchy.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}