Saudis Sue for Secrecy by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
"The Saudis' efforts to keep a veil of secrecy over their support for al Qaeda and Hamas got a shot in the arm last week, as a British publisher opted to suppress a controversial book on the financing of terror.
Facing the mere threat of a lawsuit from Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz, Cambridge University Press agreed to pulp all the unsold copies of 'Alms of Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World,' issue a public apology to Mahfouz and pay his legal expenses and substantial undisclosed damages.
The prestigious publisher - the world's oldest publishing house - had carefully vetted the book before publishing it last year. Yet now it has asked more than 200 libraries worldwide to pull the work off their shelves."
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