Saudi funding to charities has fallen by 40 percent after the September 11 attacks as Muslims fear falling foul of strict US efforts to monitor “terror funding”, the head of a leading Saudi charity said this week. Saleh Wohaibi, secretary-general of the Saudi-based World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), said total funds collected in the oil-exporting Gulf region do not exceed $1 billion a year. He said this was miniscule compared to annual US charity spending and the wealth of the oil and gas-producing region. “If you take WAMY, the reduction goes up to 40 percent, if you compare 2001 and 2003-04,” he said in an interview. Plenty of money for the Widows Ammunition Fund, however.