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9/11 probe clears Saudi Arabia
Thursday, 17 June, 2004, 11:06 GMT 12:06 UK The United States enquiry into the 9/11 attacks says it has found no evidence the Saudi government funded al-Qaeda. It also clears the wife of the Saudi envoy to the US, who had been alleged to have given the 9/11 hijackers money. "The commission dispels two outrageous myths about Saudi Arabia," said Saudi official Adel al-Jubeir. US Congress members have previously questioned if the Saudi royal family provided support for the 9/11 hijackers and other al-Qaeda operatives. Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and 15 of the 19 hijackers on 11 September 2001. Suspicions about the Gulf kingdom intensified in 2003 when the Bush administration blocked the release of a 28-page section of a congressional report on the attacks believed to focus on terror funding in Saudi Arabia. Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Saudi Arabiaâs long-standing ambassador in Washington, was at one point implicated for making donations worth $130,000 to the wives of two friends of the hijackers in San Diego. more ... The only thing that will ever properly "clear" Saudi Arabia of any complicity in the 9-11 atrocity is an American hydrogen bomb. For those "unclear" on the subject, please read up on Saudi Arabiaâs Prince Turki al-Faisal. Posted by: Zenster 2004-06-17 |
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