Saudi Arabia Archives Digest
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March 12, 2005
NYSun: Saudi Arabia has funneled tens of thousands of dollars into the "outreach" programs of Columbia University's Middle East Institute, which until last week was training some of the city's public-school teachers in how to teach students about Middle East politics. Since 2002, the government-owned Saudi Aramco has given the...
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February 07, 2005
From this: What is happening in some American mosques, including a few in the Chicago area, is deeply disturbing. In certain Islamic schools, textbooks spit vitriol against Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims: "Be disassociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion." In mosque publications, America is the "Abode of...
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November 22, 2004
Hey Josh, here's your ticket for Little Rock. Just go to the Clinton library with a tape recorder or a notepad and stand at the only computer there that lists the donors. Then, collate those results and get linked to by Drudge: "Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President Clinton's Library"....
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November 18, 2004
From March 30, 2002's "Saudis Pledge up to $20 Million for Clinton Library": Disgraced ex-president Bill Clinton, whose disdain for national security over the last eight years is widely believed to have rendered the U.S. vulnerable to last fall's terrorist attacks, is set to collect millions of dollars from Saudi...
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September 25, 2004
From WND: "Saudi Arabia is working hard to shut down the facilitators and financial supporters of terrorism, and they have captured or killed many first-tier leaders of the al-Qaida organization in Saudi Arabia," the White House said in a Sept. 11 statement. "Today, because Saudi Arabia has seen the danger...
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September 03, 2004
From Long Island's Newsday: Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, a bond trading firm that lost two-thirds of its workers in the World Trade Center attack, has sued Saudi Arabia for allegedly supporting al-Qaida prior to the Sept. 11 attack through financing, safe houses, weapons and money laundering. The company, in a $7...
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July 02, 2004
The WaPo article on yesterday's raid at an Islamic institute puts things in a rather odd way: Federal agents yesterday swarmed into an Islamic institute in Northern Virginia that has been the target of a joint U.S.-Saudi crackdown over allegations that it promoted an intolerant brand of Islam... Last I...
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July 01, 2004
From Fox: Officials from the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (search ) were serving a search warrant Thursday on an Islamic center in Fairfax, Va., as part of a terrorism probe, four government officials told Fox News... ...The key part [of the search] is a probe into the possibility...
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June 09, 2004
Break out the non-alchoholic champagne and slaughter a goat! Oh, wait, you say, "Almost half of all Saudis said in a poll conducted last year that they have a favorable view of Osama bin Laden's sermons and rhetoric..." Note also that the poll was conducted last year, but the poll's...
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May 03, 2004
From WND: A top textbook consultant shaping classroom education on Islam in American public schools recently worked for a school funded and controlled by the Saudi government... The consultant, Susan L. Douglass, has also praised Pakistan's madrassa schools as "proud symbols of learning," even after the U.S. government blamed them...
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July 16, 2003
From the I'll-Believe-It-When-I-See-It department: ...Crown Prince Abdullah has issued new regulations prohibiting any reference to jihad, or holy war, in radio and television broadcasts. The royals are also drafting new regulations that the Wahhabi clergy will most probably consider sacrilegious. The new rules would actually remove elements of Wahhabi doctrine...
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June 17, 2003
From this: At a news conference called here to claim that the Saudi Arabian government was cracking down on terrorism, a top Saudi Arabian official yesterday refused to condemn the terrorist group Hamas. Adel Al-Jubeir’s refusal to condemn Hamas came on a day when the Bush administration was blaming the...
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May 10, 2003
From this: U.S. authorities expelled a Saudi consular official and Muslim leader who had been living in Southern California, saying he was suspected of having terrorist links. Fahad al Thumairy, 32, was detained at Los Angeles International Airport earlier in the week after arriving from Frankfurt and was deported Thursday......
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April 06, 2003
Glenn links to this update of the story of the S.A. diplomat who might be an AQ conspirator. Apparently, the Saudis want to question him, but they don't know where he is....
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March 28, 2003
From this: Authorities in Ivory Coast are investigating what they say was the murder of Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the West African country. Ivory Coast police say the body of Saudi Ambassador Mohammed Ahmed Al Rasheed was discovered by his driver early Friday morning. Police sources say the unclothed corpse...
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March 26, 2003
Again? Shark blog links to this Der Spiegel story and this Reuters story about a Saudi attache who had contact with Islamists who were later arrested for planning a terrorist attack. Whence followed a typical Saudi reaction....
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February 18, 2003
According to this: Saudi Arabia, which has often denied having an al-Qaida presence on its soil, announced yesterday that at least 90 citizens will be prosecuted for links to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. Prince Nayef, the interior minister, told Okaz newspaper that a further 250 suspects were still being...
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February 08, 2003
From the article Saudis Plan to End U.S. Presence: Saudi Arabia's leaders have made far-reaching decisions to prepare for an era of military disengagement from the United States, to enact what Saudi officials call the first significant democratic reforms at home, and to rein in the conservative clergy that has...
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December 18, 2002
It's official!...
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November 25, 2002
Publicly or privately, the Saudis need to realize that a large part of their citizenry and a small but very rich and influential part of their rulers are extremists and need to be dealt with. To a certain extent, they appear to be realizing this; Drudge links to the article...
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November 22, 2002
According to this article: The FBI is investigating whether the Saudi Arabian government—using the bank account of the wife of a senior Saudi diplomat—sent tens of thousands of dollars to two Saudi students in the United States who provided assistance to two of the September 11 hijackers... The account is...
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