Bin Laden 'paid to spare Saudi targets'

SAUDI ARABIAN princes paid Osama bin Laden and the Taliban $200 million to spare targets in the oil-rich Gulf state, according to court papers.

Recently revealed evidenced contained in a $1 trillion lawsuit, filed this month by the kin of 9/11 victims against members of the Saudi royal family, Saudi banks and Islamic charities, alleges the payoff funded al-Qaida terror training in Afghanistan.

The deal was hammered out in two meetings between top Saudi princes, and officials from al-Qaida, Pakistan and the Taliban.