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| Osama Basnan denies all... |
| 2002-12-30 |
| A Saudi man in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, denied reports that he forwarded money from Saudi Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, to two of the Sept. 11 hijackers who crashed a plane into the Pentagon. "Lies! All lies!" Osama Basnan told the London-based, Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, that he used the money for medical care for his wife, Palestinian Majeda Dweikat, and that he had not met the terrorists. "And my mother needed an operation, too, see?" Bandar, in an interview posted late Tuesday on The New York Times' Web site, said he regretted that the donations were unfairly putting a strain on U.S.-Saudi relations. Regardless, the link remained strong, he said. "This is a war and we are in it together," Bandar said in an interview at his northern Virginia home. "We're just on different sides." His wife told the newspaper she was "outraged when people think I can be connected to terrorists when all I wanted to do was to give some help to someone in need." Guess the Salvation Army isn't on their list... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |