SAUDIS ARE BECOMING TOP THREAT TO OUR GI'S ----------New York Post Online Edition:

New York Post Online Edition::

"June 29, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — U.S. commanders in Iraq are facing a growing security threat from Saudi Arabia — which is emerging as a major center for recruitment and financing of terrorist operations in Iraq, The Post has learned.

Officials said that over the past few months, they have seen the Saudi connection to Iraq terror groups — like Abu Musab Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq — increase as more fanatics cross into Iraq to fight American forces.

New intelligence also suggests that after Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden earlier this year, there has been an increase in financing and other support from al Qaeda cells, radical clerics and wealthy businessmen inside Saudi Arabia, officials said.

'The Saudi border is becoming a real problem — almost as big as Syria,' said an official who has received recent briefings the new Iraqi government."