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SECTION: News; InternationalLENGTH: 8072 wordsHEADLINE: Saudi Arabian Press Conf erence on Terror InvestigationBYLINE: Leon Harris, Andrea K oppelHIGHLIGHT:The Saudi Arabian press conference on their terror investigation.BODY:

LEON HAR RIS, CNN A NCH OR: Saudi Arabia talks about its role on the war on terrorism. Now, any minutenow, officials are set to release a report detailing what the kingdom has done, and says will do, to track money from itscitizens. This is in answer to critics who say that Saudi efforts have been ineffective to this point and insincere as well.This news conference is set to get under way any time this hour as you see, there's a live picture that we have setup and we'll go there once it gets under way.Now, for more on what we can expect to hear at this news conference, let's bring in our State Departmentcorrespondent, Andrea K oppel. She is following the story for us in Washington.Good morning ~ Andrea.ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Leon.Well, as you know , anybody who has picked up a paper in the last week or turned on the television has seen reportswhich allege that the man wh o is the top diplomat in this building here at the Saudi embassy, Prince Bandar bin Sultan,and his wife, Princess Haifa, had been accused by unnamed U.S. officials of inadvertently supp orting passing donationsto individuals who ended up giving the money - may have given the money, in fact, to two of the 9/11 hijackers.It is in response to those reports, which the Saudi government adamantly denies, and in addition to a series ofnegative reports that have criticized the Saudi government for not doing enough to crack down on terrorism, inparticular to crack down on the giving of money, of tithing of Saudi incomes to charitable organizations linked toterrorism that the Saudi government today decided to take the PR offensive.


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Saudi Arabia yesterday announced new controls on its Muslim charities to prevent the flow of funds to violentIslamist groups, as a top government spokesman angrily rejected criticisms that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom had not doneenough in the global war against terrorism.U.S. critics of Saudi Arabia welcomed the proposed crackdown, but noted that past efforts to secure Saudi

cooperation had foundered when the trail veered too close to supporters of the ruling royal family.Adel Al-Jubeir, foreign policy adviser to Crow n Prince A bdullah, Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, condemned whathe called a "feeding frenzy" of criticism in the United States directed at S audi Arabia, saying the detractors wereplaying into the hands of Saudi-born terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in driving a wedge between two longtime

allies."We believe very strongly that pointing fingers and assigning blame doesn't get us or you or the rest of the worldanywhere," M r. Al-Jubeir told a packed news conference at the Saudi Em bassy."What we need to do, as we have done, is join hands, wrack our brains together, and find w ays to fight the scourge

of terrorism."Mr. Al-Jubeir also told reporters that Saudi Arabia plans to name Prince Turki al-Faisal, the kingdom's formerintelligence chief, as ambassador to Britain.He denied the appointment had any thing to do with giving the prince diplomatic imm unity to protect him fromlawsuits stemming from the September 11 attacks.Relatives of about 900 p eople killed in the attacks on New York and W ashington filed a civil lawsuit in the UnitedStates in Aug ust accusing three Saudi princes, including Prince Turki, as well as Saudi and foreign banks, of fundingbin Laden.Officially, the Bush administration has praised Saudi cooperation in the wake of the September 11 attacks, in which15 of the 19 hijackers carried Saudi passports."Our view has been all along that Saudi Arabia has been very cooperative in terms of the war on terrorism prior to

and certainly since September 11," said State Department deputy spokesman Philip Reeker, who welcomed the news oftighter controls over Saudi financial flows.Mr. Al-Jubeir said U.S. and Saudi officials also will "reinvigorate" a joint counterterrorism comm ittee that willmeet in Washington next month to assess the state of financial, intelligence and legal cooperation in the fight againstterrorism.


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12 June 2003Saudi Official Says Saudi Arabia is "Mobilized" to FightTerrorismSays religious, financial and education reforms are underwayBy Charles Hays BurchfieldWashington File Staff WriterWashington The foreign affairs advisor to Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz A l-Saud, Adel Al-Jubeir, said Saudi Arabia is doing "everything possible" to fightterrorism."The attacks in Saudi Arabia represented a major jolt, and they've brought out thedetermination by Saudis to ensure that we can do everything possible to prevent suchmurders from happening in our country again," Al-Jubeir said at a news conference inthe Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington June 12.The news conference was held exactly one month after four suicide car bombings byal-Qaeda terrorists killed 35 people and injured about 200 at housing compounds forWesterners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Al-Jubeir said the attacks have "galvanized" and "mobilized" the government of SaudiArabia to "go after the terrorists and bring them to justice." He said the Saudigovernment has detained over 25 people in connection with the bombing and hasquestioned "scores of people."He also said the Saudi government has sought help from a number of countriesincluding the United States, has started to root out extremism in Saudi mosques, ismoving to close the door on terrorist financing and money laundering and has takensteps to improve the Saudi educational system.Al-Jubeir said Saudi authorities have questioned over 1,000 people since the terroristattacks on Sept. 11, 2001 and have detained about 300 Al-Qaeda members,approximately 100 of whom are awaiting court trials in the country.In addition to arresting Al-Qaeda members, Saudi Arabian officials have arrested threeclerics who preached hatred and intolerance, according to Al-Jubeir."W e have looked more intensely in terms of what is being said in our mosques andtrying to curb incitement," Al-Jubeir said.He said over the last few months Saudi Arabia has dismissed several hundred imamsfor "straying out of the bounds of religion and/or engaging in political activity." Al-Jubeir said the government has referred over 1,000 imams to educational programs inorder to teach them "about their role and what is permissible and what is notpermissible so that we can eliminate extremism, intolerance and radicalism from our

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STATEMENTSA N DS P E E C H E S SAUDIARABIAN MONETARY AGENCY IMPLEMENTS NEWREGULATIONS REGARDING CHARITIES[Washington, DC] -- The Head Office of the Saudi Arabian MonetaryAgency (SAMA) recently distributed a circular to all banks and financialinstitutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia requiring the full andimmediate implementation of nine new policies and procedures thatrelate to the accounts of charitable and welfare institutions. SAMAGovernor Hamad Saud A l Sayyari issued the following order in regard tothe updated directives: "These rules and instructions are to beimplemented immediately upon receipt of this circular, and SAMA is tobe informed on the actions taken."

According to Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar binSultan, "Charitable funds can no longer go outside of Saudi Arabiawithout strict government oversight and control."The new policies and procedures have been implemented toensure that funds meant for charitable purposes are notmisappropriated. For example, all bank accounts of a charitable orwelfare society must be identified and consolidated into a single accountfor each such society; and deposits in these accounts will be acceptedonly after the depositor provides the bank with identification and allother required information for verification. No charitable or welfaresociety can open or operate these bank accounts without firstpresenting a valid copy of the required license. Cash withdrawals fromsuch accounts are strictly prohibited.Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan declared: "We have closedthe door on the possibility for charitable giving to be misappropriatedfor illegal purposes."In another memo issued by SAMA's Head Office regarding its

Rules Governing Anti-Money Laundering and Combating TerroristFinancing, the Agency states: "SAMA intends to-verify theimplementation of these rules by Saudi banks through the Agency's on-site inspections, receipt of regular compliance reports and certificationby external auditors." The rules incorporate the Banking Control Law, allof SAMA's regulations, the FATF 40 Recommendations, the FATF 8Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing, and all relevant UNSecurity Council Resolutions.Saudi Arabia remains determined to combat and bankrupt

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Financial war on terrorism suffers from agency rivalryEffort to cut cash flow stymied by lack of cooperation and evidence, turfbattlesLOS ANGELES TIMESOriginally published Sunday, April 7, 2002WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government's much-touted financial war on terrorism hasbeen hamstrung by bitter turf battles among federal agencies, questionableevidence against targeted Middle Eastern groups and a lack of cooperation byforeign allies, senior government officials said.In recent months, President Bush and his top Cabinet members have hailed theU . S . government's effort to "shut down the money pipeline" as a vitalcomponent of United States counterterrorism strategy.But privately, some administration officials are saying the strategy isn'tworking as advertised." Y o u read the papers and it seems like everything is going great," said onesenior law enforcement official. "But this is no way to run an investigation.And the worst part is that this is the biggest case in existence. And so muchis at stake."Range of woesDebate over the problems has occurred at the highest levels, according tointerviews with more than dozen law enforcement, intelligence andcounterterrorism officials familiar with the financial crackdown.Many of them say a number of financial crackdowns on groups with suspectedterrorist ties were launched prematurely or lacked evidence. They add that theUnited States is receiving far less cooperation than it needs from many alliednations, which have pledged to help choke off the terrorist money supply butlack the political will, technical know-how and legal framework to make thathappen.Some officials involved in implementing the Patriot Act, which grantedauthorities broader powers to track suspected terrorist money, are now sayingit is too unwieldy and unrealistic.

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S T A T E M E N T SA N DS P E E C H E SMONEY LAUNDERERS TO BE SEVERELY PUNISHED

[Washington, DC] ~The Consultative Council has approved newlegislation which puts in place harsh penalties for the crime of moneylaundering. The law consists of 29 articles and stipulates jail sentencesof up to 15 years and a fine of m ore than $1.5 million for anyonelaundering m oney through charities. O ther mone y-laundering offensesare punishable by up to 10 years in jail and a fine of $1.3 million.Adel Al-Jubeir, Foreign A ffairs A dvisor to C rown P rince A bdullah stated:"The new legislation will serve as a deterrent as well as facilitate ourability to monitor criminal financial transactions."The new legislation streng thens law enforcement by including bans onany comm ercial or financial transactions in which the parties involvedare unidentified; requiring financial institutions to keep records of alltransactions for a minimum of 10 years; and allowing the exchang e ofinformation between the Kingdom and other countries regarding moneylaundering operations.

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Report: Terror Funds Flow Through Saudi ArabiaFundraising by Al Qaeda Sympathizers C ontinues Unabated in the KingdomBy Douglas FarahWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, October 16, 2002; 7:43 PMThe Bush administration's efforts to cut off funds for international terrorism are destined to fail until itconfronts Saudi Arabia, whose leaders have tolerated some of its wealthy citizens raising millions ofdollars a y ear for al Qaeda, according to a new report from an influential foreign policy organization.The report from the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, scheduled for release today,contends that the administration must pressure the Saudis-as well as other governments - to crack downon terror financing, even at the risk of sparking a public backlash that could jeopardize the Saudigovernment."I t is worth stating clearly and unam biguously what official U.S. government spokespersons have not,"the report notes. "For years, individuals and charities based in Saudi Arabia have been the mostimportant source of funds for al Qaeda, and for years the Saudi officials have turned a blind eye to thisproblem."Adm inistration criticism of Saudi Arabia, the top oil supplier to the United States and a crucial ally if theBush administration takes military action against Iraq, has been largely muted since the Sept. 11 attacks,despite the belief of many law e nforcem ent and intelligence officials here and abroad that al Qaedarelies on wealthy Saudis for most of its funding.Earlier this year, however, relations became strained wh en a defense consultant told a Penatagonadvisory comm ittee that Saudis w ere active at all levels of the terror chain...a

;irThe Saudi government had no imm ediate response to the report. Its embassy in Washington put out astatement praising U.S.-Saudi cooperation in freezing terrorist assets and cracking down on charities,saying the support and financ ing of terrorism "cannot be tolerated."But the report drew a sharp rebuttal from the Bush administration. Robert Nichols, the TreasuryDepartment's depu ty assistant secretary for public affairs, said the report was "seriously flawed" and thathis departm ent considered it a "Clinton-era snapshot of what al Qaeda looked like in 1999 or 2000"without taking into account the new resources and strategies to combat terror financing."W e are not claiming victory, we are not spiking the football, but we are off to a good start," Nicholssaid.Administration officials said they were angry that Treasury and o ther agencies had not been invited tobrief the panel. B ut Maurice R. Greenberg, the panel's chairman, said that in late August the councilextended a written invitation to the NSC to address the group and an oral invitation to Tre asury. Bothwere declined, he said.The report, prepared by a bipartisan panel of financ ial and terrorism experts, reveals no new detailsabout U.S. or Saudi efforts to staunch terror funding. But it plainly asserts what many officials have said

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) Saudi mea culpaBy Arnaudde BorchgraveTHE WASHINGTON TIMESThe 24,000-strong Saudi royal family has finally conceded that the root cause of Islamist terrorism hasbeen its own Wahhabi ideology. It was Wahhabism that spawned Osama Bin Laden and his al Qaeda.The 1979 "concordat" between the House of Saud and the kingdom's clergy has now been breached.Following the al Qaeda suicide bombings of apartment buildings in Riyadh on May 12 that killed 35,including eight Americans, Saudi security and intelligence organizations reported what the royal familywas loath to hear: Almost 1,000 Saudi clerics are either linked to, or in sympathy with, al Qaeda. Theyhave been fired or banned from addressing worshippers after Friday prayers. Acting in the name of KingFahd, who is too ill to rule, Crown Prince Abdullah has issued new regulations prohibiting any referenceto jihad, or holy war, in radio and television broadcasts.The royals are also drafting new regulations that the Wahhabi clergy will most probably considersacrilegious. The new rules would actually remove elements of Wahhabi doctrine Islam's strictestinterpretation of the Koran as it is presently taught in mosques and schools around the kingdom.Security chiefs of the 22 Arab League nations, meeting in Tunis last week, quickly agreed on theexistence of a direct link between al Qaeda terrorist attacks and a clergy that promotes holy war in holyplaces.Mohammed bin Al Kuman, chairman of the Arab League's council of interior (internal security) ministers,said the most urgent need was for moderate clerics who can see that Islam has been hijacked byextremists who preach hatred of the United States and Israel in particular,Western values in general.President Bush has repeated frequently since September 11 that the United States is not at war withIslam. But radical Islam is very much at war with the United States. And Arab governments have nowdecided to face the challenge.The Saudi clergy has sent Wahhabi clerics as missionaries all over the world to build mosques and set upmadrassas (Koranic schools that teach only religion, to the exclusion of all other disciplines). There areabout 2,000 mosques in the United States, most of them started byWahhabi clerics.In 1979, scores of Muslim terrorists seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca and kept Saudi security forces atbay for two weeks. Non-Muslims are not allowed anywhere near Mecca or Medina, so Saudi authoritiesdeny to this day that French specialists were called in with sophisticated methods to subdue the Wahhabirebellion. The Wahhabi revolutionaries had sought refuge in the catacombs. The French specialistsadvised them to flood them and then stick high voltage cables in the water.The clergy pledged in the "concordat" that followed the near disaster to refrain from criticizing theextravagant excesses of the royal family. In return, the House of Saud gave free rein to the Wahhabis outside the kingdom. In Pakistan, they took advantage of the Saudi-U.S.-Pakistani entente to drive theSoviets out of Afghanistan to set up a string of madrassas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Theidea, first proposed by Gen. Zia ul-Haq, the late dictator of Pakistan, was to build an ideological barrieragainst what was then perceived to be the threat of Soviet expansionism through Baluchistan to theArabian Sea.Following the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in February 1989, the Saudi Wahhabislavished some $300 million a year on building a network of several thousand madrassas, from Peshawarto Islamabad, Lahore, and Karachi and hundreds of towns and villages along the way. From Pakistanimadrassas, young Muslim men from some 30 countries, went on to Afghanistan for training in al Qaeda'scamps. Those who showed more promise for intellectual pursuits stayed on an additional two years toqualify as imams and mullahs.The University for the Education of Truth, a leading madrassa in Khattak nearfPeshawar, graduated nineout of Taliban's top 10 leaders. With a student body of 2,500, the institution is fully funded by the Saudiclergy and wealthy Saudis. Its president, Sami ul-Haq, is now a prominent member of the MMA acoalition of six political-religious parties that governs the Northwest Frontier Province, shares power inBaluschistan and holds 20 percent of the seats in the National Assembly in Islamabad. Mr. Sami is aclose friend of Osama Bin Laden.U.S. aid to Pakistan includes some $100 million over five years to reform the madrassas and revise thecurriculum to include other disciplines besides religion. A small number of these schools have gone alongwith reform; the overwhelming majority of religious teachers have told the authorities to butt out. SaudiWahhabi money is still outspending U.S. aid to education reform by 10 to 1.


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Saudi Editor-in-Chief Fired Following Criticism of IbnTaymiyya, Spiritual Father of WahhabismO n May 27, 2003 , approximately tw o weeks after the suicide bombings inRiyadh , the editor-in-chief of the Saudi daily Al-Watan, Jama/ Khashoggi,was f ired by order o f the Saudi Information Ministry. At the t ime, no off icial reasonwas given for his dismissal.Al-Watan was founded in 200 0, in the city ofAbha in the southern Saudi district ofAsir, a district which is a major basis of suppo rt for S audi Islamists. Thecornerston e o f the paper's building was laid by Crown Prince Abdallah, and itsboard of directors is headed by Prince Bandar bin Khaled AI-Faisal. The papertakes an independent l ine and demonstrates a stance considered l iberal by Saudistandards. The new spaper's op-ed page reflects pluralism, and features art iclesexpressing diverse opin ions. The following offers a brief background of Khashoggias well as excerpts from an op-ed published in Al-Watan which l ikely led to hisdismissal:Editor-in-Chief KhashoggiJamal Khashoggi served as the paper's editor-in-chief for only a few wee ks; hisprevious position was as editor of the Saudi English-language weekly Arab News.Despite his brief tenure, he managed to arouse the ire of Saudi Islamist elements,both establishment and opposition, because of a series of articles condemning theSaudi government's Authority for the Promotion of Virtue an d Prevention of Vice(i.e. the religious police). Following th e publication of these articles, attacks werelaunched against Al-Watan by several Islamist websites which support bin Ladenan d oppose the Saudi regime. These websites also support the Saudi religiouspolice, even though it is a government body. The websites featured a parody ofthe Al-Watan ("The Homeland") logo, that read instead Al-Wathan - "The PaganIdol."The newspaper angered Islamists for other reasons as well. For example, itdiscussed women's issues such as identity cards and the right of women to drivecars. The result was a frequent turnover of editors-in-chief - Khashoggi was thethird, though the paper has been in existence for less than three years. He wasreplaced byTarek Ibrahim.It recently became known that the last straw that led to Khashoggi's terminationwas an op-ed on the Riyadh bombings that appeared in the May 22 edition; theop-ed criticized Ibn Taymiya (1268-1328), the spiritual father ofWahhabism, which is the Saudi kingdom's official stream of Islam.XI]'The Words of Ibn Taymiya are the Real Problem'The following are excerpts from th e article, titled "The Individual and theHomeland Are More Important than Ibn Taymiya," by Khaled AI-Ghanami: "It is

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3) Immigration Case in Virginia May Complicate Saudi-U.S. TiesBy GLENN SIMPSON and DAVID S. CLOUDWALL STREET JOURNALWASHINGTON -- The Justice Department secretly held for more than a month a man whomanaged some U.S. investments of a major Islamic charity sponsored by the Saudi government,turning up the heat on the charity as the Saudi government sought to help the U.S. interviewterror suspects in Iran.Soliman Beheiri, who was indicted on immigration charges last week, also founded a real-estatefirm where two U.S.-described supporters of terrorism allegedly made investments. Mr. Beheiri isbeing held as a material witness under a sealed U.S. grand-jury inquiry into a group of Saudi-backed charities in northern Virginia, people familiar with the matter said. Investigators haveevidence that funds from the charities may have flowed to alleged terrorism supporters, accordingto a search warrant.The case could become awkward because the Bush administration is relying on the Saudigovernment to help gain access to suspected senior al Qaeda members, including a son of terrorleader Osama bin Laden. Saudi officials recently sought Iran's permission to meet a prisonerbelieved to be Saad bin Laden to verify his identity and possibly arrange a handover, according totwo U.S. officials.The Bush administration also wants to apprehend Saef al Adel, another senior al Qaedaoperative whom U.S. officials believe Iran has detained. But Washington has refused to opendirect negotiations with Tehran. Saudis were reluctant to approach the Iranians about Saad binLaden, who has been stripped of his Saudi citizenship. U.S. officials say Riyadh has moved todemonstrate its desire to cooperate against al Qaeda.Saudi efforts to arrange a handover of the Iranian al Qaeda prisoners, which include as many aseight Saudi nationals, haven't been successful. Iranian officials rejected Saudi proposals toprovide DNA to verify the identity of the man believed to be Saad bin Laden, and Tehran said itwould put some al Qaeda figures on trial. But Saudi officials hope to arrange a handover at leastof the younger Mr. bin Laden, according to U.S. officials briefed on the discussions. Saad binLaden, one of two sons of Osama bin Laden believed to be active in al Qaeda, has assumed alarger leadership role in the organization since other operatives have been rounded up or killed, asenior U.S. intelligence official said.On Thursday, in a move that could further complicate Washington's relationship with Riyadh,federal prosecutors in Virginia indicted Mr. Beheiri for unlawful procurement of naturalization,false statements and making a false oath to win U.S. residency. The charges are denied by Mr.Beheiri. His lawyer couldn't be reached for comment.Mr. Beheiri founded BMI Real Estate Development Inc., a small real-estate investment firm thatoperated in New Jersey and the Washington, D.C., area. Through BMI, Mr. Beheiri managedabout $2 million in investments for the U.S. branch of the International Islamic ReliefOrganization, which is part of the Saudi government's primary vehicle for religious outreach, theMuslim World League.An IIRO branch in Pakistan was linked by the government there to al Qaeda operations, courtrecords show. According to a U.S. government cable, IIRO's Philippine branch served as a frontfor al Qaeda operative Jamal Khalifa, Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law. The IIRO funds investedwith Mr. Beheiri disappeared during the late 1990s. The U.S. branch of IIRO, called the IslamicRelief Organization, won a $2.1 million judgment against BMI. At that time, Mr. Beheiri was nolonger paying his lawyer and had been thought to have left the country.


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Special Dispatch Series - No. 526Ju n e 20, 2003 No.526A n EgyptianJournalist on the Connection Between

Wahhabism an d TerrorismFollowing the bombings in Riyadh on May 12, 2003, the deputy editor of theindependent Egyptian weekly Roz AI-Yousef, Wael AI-Abrashi, who Is alsoan expert on Sunni terrorist movements, wrote several articles on SaudiWahhabism and the development of Islamist terror. Th e following are excerptsfrom AI-Abrashi's article:A Wahhabi World ViewIn an article published on May 31, 2003 in Roz AI-Yousef, AI-Abrashi wrote: "AWahhabi Saudi sheikh warned young people not to speak English and not to try tostudy it. Meswal lowed his saliva, wet his lips, and screamed:This is the languageof the infidels, to the point where it has the word 'blease1 ['please'], which isderived from iblis [Satan]. This is the language of the devil...'""Anyone can come and say that this sheikh does not represent all Wahhabis , but Iwil l reply that most of the Wahhabi sheikhs have in the past forbidden the study ofgeography, English, philosophy, and drawing; besides that, what is the differencebetween what this Wahhabi sheikh said and the Fatwa of [Sheikh] Bin Baz - the[late] leader of Wahhabism - which stated that the planet Earth does not rotate?"AI-Qa'ida - A Saudi Wahhabi Organization"Wahhabism prohibits the woman from working, forbids her to drive a car, andbans democracy, treating it as a religion in addition to the religion of Allah.Wahhabism attributes great importance to the [outward] forms of Islam - growinga beard, ankle-length garments for men, and the requirement to use toothpicksinstead of the satanic Western toothbrush. One Wahhab i leader. Sheikh bin'Athimein, prohibited smoking, praying behind a smoker, shaving one's beard,praying behind a clean-shaven man, and wearing European clothing because it ispolytheists' clothing...""I say that this Wahhabism is incapable of establishing a modern state andincapable of spreading the values of tolerance that Islam has set out. On thecontrary, this Wahhabism leads, as we have seen, to the birth of extremist,closed, and fanatical streams, that accuse others of heresy, abolish them, anddestroy them. The extremist religious groups have moved from the stage of Takfir[1] to the stage of 'annihilation and destruction,1 in accordance with the strategyof AI-Qa'ida - which Saudi authorities must admit is a local Saudi organization thatdrew other organizations into it, and not the other way around. All theorganizations emerged from under the robe of Wahhabism."'Saudi Arabia Helped Perpetrators of Terror Attacks in Egypt, Beginningwith Sadat's Assassination'

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PrintPage |Sympathizers Are Terrorists Too: AbdullahP.K. Abdul Ghafour Arab News Staff JEDDAH, 15 Aug us t 2003 Crown Prince Abdullah, deputy premier and comman der of theNational Gua rd, yesterday vo we d Saudi Arabia would triumph o ver evil in its wa r against terror.In an a ddress to the nation, Prince Abdullah urged Saudis to give their full cooperation to theKingdom-wide crackdown on militants, a nd warne d that sitting on the fen ce was not an option."In the decisive battle betwee n the powers of good and evil, there is no place for neutrality and noroom for stragglers. There is only one path open to honorable believers, which is to stand shoulder toshoulder against the corrupt aggres sors in the h oliest places on E arth Makkah and Madinah," thecrown prince said.Prince Abdullah w arne d the public against harboring s uspe cted terrorists. "Those who protect oreven just sym pathize with terrorists a re thems elves terrorists, a nd they will receive their justpunishment," the Saudi Press Agen cy quoted him as sa ying."I am calling on every citizen to be a pillar of support to security officers, and to be the eyes , ears a ndhands of security officers," he said, and declared the Kingdom would em erge victorious in its war onterrorism.Prince Abdullah's comments followed a major gunbattle on Tuesday between Saudi security forcesand suspected militants, the second clash in three days. Three policemen were killed and a militantand two policeme n we re injured in the Sh ootout in R iyadh's A l-Suwa idi district.Prince Abdullah ca lled the secu rity officers who died in the confronta tion with militants "martyrs ." Hesaid the state would take care of their families a nd children."Without your sacrifices, the terrorists would not have been de feated," the crown prince said in hisspeech in which he hailed the brave ry displayed by Saudi security forces in the battle againstmilitants."This steadfas t state will never forget th e martyrs wh o died in defense of their faith and their nation. Itwill never forget the heroes injured on duty and the orphans whose fathers died in the battle of rightagainst falsehood," he said.The Kingdom ha s stepped up its campaign against s uspected militants following the triple suicidebombings at housing compounds in Riyadh on May 12 wh en 35 people, including nine terrorists ,were killed.On W edne sday, Was hington issued a new travel warning for Saudi Arabia, saying it had credibleinforma tion of thre ats aga inst Am erican and We ste rn interes ts, including civil aviation. Britain alsosaid it had intelligence on se curity threa ts to British aviation interests in the Kingdom.The UKsaid itbelieved the gunmen inSunday's battle might have been planning attacks on Britishinterests. But Interior Minister Prince Na if denied the British report.

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August 13, 2003Professor Richard BettsLeo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace StudiesPolitical Science DepartmentColumbia University420 West 11 8 th StreetNew Y ork, NY 10027Dear Professor Betts:The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States isdirected by statute to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding theSeptember 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This includes the nation's preparednessfor, and immediate response to, those attacks, as well as to evaluate thelessons learned and to make recommen dations for preventing future attacks.As part of its investigation, the Com mission hereby requests to interview youon issues relating to the following general topics: (1) the concept of surpriseattack, and the conduct of warnin g within the U.S. Governm ent; (2) themission, organizational structure, an d management of the U.S. IntelligenceCommunity; and (3) analysis an d collection of intelligence information forcounterterrorism purposes. The Commission does not anticipate thatclassified information will be discussed at this interview.Mr. Gordon Lederman, a member of the Commission's professional staff, willconduct the interview. The Commission would like to conduct your interviewon A ugust 19,2003 at 9:00 a.m. at your office in New Y ork City. At least twomembers of the Commission's staff will attend your interview. Please callMr. Lederman's assistant, Ms. Melissa Coffey, at (202) 331-4080 as soon aspossible to raise an y other questions you may have.Thank yo u very much in advance fo r your time and for your cooperation withthe Commission in this important matter.Sincerely,

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U.S. Faces Dilemma on Saudi PolicyBy Michael MandelbaumNewsday, July 30, 2003The 28 pages the White House deleted from the 850-page report Congress releasedlast week on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, illustrate the most acutedilemma confronting American foreign policy: what to do about Saudi Arabia. None ofthe choices is entirely satisfactory.According to press accounts, the report's missing pages describe support provided byofficials of the Saudi Arabian government to several of the hijackers of the airplanesthat crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Critics have charged thatthe Bush administration has suppressed this section of the report out of fear that, inview of its close ties with the Saudi royal family, the administration would sufferembarrassment and political damage from revealing it.President George W. Bush met yesterday with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal,but he refused to declassify the 28-page section - citing the need to protectintelligence sources.In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt hasmaintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil. TheSaudi kingdom contains an estimated 25 percent of the world's easily accessiblereserves of the petroleum that the American economy - and the economies of allindustrialized countries - need to function. For six decades, the United States hasmaintained a bargain with the Saudi rulers: support for their regime in exchange foraccess to the oil they control.But the rule of the Saudi royal family rests on another, internal bargain. The regimehas embraced as its official ideology a radical form of Islam known as Wahhabism,which preaches intolerance for, indeed hatred of, all others - Muslim and non-Muslimalike - who do not subscribe to its precepts. It is as if, says the eminent historian ofthe Mideast Bernard Lewis, the U.S. government were promoting the ideas of the KuKlux Klan.The Wahhabi ideology pervades Saudi society. Both Saudi officials and privatecitizens have used the kingdom's oil wealth to promote Wahhabism all over the world.They sponsored the schools that taught the leaders of the Taliban regime inAfghanistan, which welcomed the al-Qaida terrorist network on Afghan territorybefore being ousted by the United States in 2001, and funded mosques in WesternEurope where al-Qaida operatives were recruited. Osama bin Laden and the 19hijackers of Sept. 11 professed to be inspired by Wahhabi teachings.So the regime that the United States has faithfully supported presides over a societyand sponsors organizations that produce anti-American terrorists, which creates a

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dilemma for American policy makers.Opposing the Saudi regime might lead to its replacement by one even moreunfriendly to the United States. But continuing support for the rulers in Riyadh whileignoring their official ideology, as in the past, risks allowing global terrorism toflourish. In response to this dilemma, three distinct courses of action are available.One involves reform in the Saudi kingdom. Some Saudi officials have expressed acommitment to reducing the power of the Wahhabi clerics, changing the educationalcurriculum and opening the political system to wider participation. American officialshope that if democracy is established in neighboring Iraq this will, by example, moveother Arab countries in the direction of greater social tolerance and politicalopenness.But the benign effects of a new Iraq will be felt slowly and gradually, if at all. AndSaudi rulers have powerful incentives to oppose serious change because it coulddilute their power and call into question their practice of diverting much of therevenue from the kingdom's oil to their personal use.A second option is to muddle through, hoping that an unreformed Saudi Arabia cannonetheless keep under control the bin Ladens that its society and school systemproduce. This is the administration's preferred option, and its decision to removeAmer ican troops from Saudi territory is designed to eliminate a major source ofWahhabi- inspired anger at the United States. If this approach fails, a third possibilityis likely to receive serious consideration.If the world cannot live without Saudi oil but concludes that it also cannot live withthe current Saudi regime, it may decide to separate the two, putting the Saudi oilfields under some sort of international control. They might be administered by theUnited Nations, with the proceeds going to the world's poorest countries rather thanto the Saudi ruling family. This would cut off the funding for terrorism that, until now,has emanated from Saudi Arabia. It would represent a sharp departure from existinginternational rules and procedures. But if Saudi-funded terror continues, proposals ofthis kind will rise to the top of the international agenda.

Michael Mandelbaum, author of "The Ideas That Conquered the World," is a seniorfellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor of American foreign policyat the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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T H E W A L L S T R E E T J O I M A L .O N L I N 'February 6 ,2 0 0 2

AFTERMATH OF TERRORFROM THE ARCHIVES: February 6, 2002 CRACKDOWN

Saudis FinallyMove to CrackMonitorKeVBankACCOUntS D o w n on A l l e g e d Ter ro r F u n d s 302/04/02For Terror Funding at U.S. RequestB y J A M E S M . D O R S E YStaff Reporter of THE W A L L STREET J O U R N A LR I Y A D H , Saudi Arabia -- The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authori ty, the kingdom's central bank, is monitoring at the request of U.S. law-enforcementagencies bank accounts associated with some of the country 's most prominent businessmen in a bid to prevent them from be in g u s ed w i t t in g ly o ru n w i t t i n g l y for the fun n e l in g o f f u n d s to terroris t organ izations , according to U.S. off icials an d Sau d is fam i l ia r w i th th e issue.The acco u n ts ~ be lo n g in g to Al Raj h i Bank ing & Investment Corp., headed by Saleh Abdulaziz al Rajhi; Al Rajhi Commercial ForeignExchange, which isn ' t connected t o A l Rajhi Ban k in g ; I s lamic ban k in g co n g lo mera te Dalian Al Baraka Group, w i t h $ 7 bi l l io n in assets chaired b ySheik Saleh Kamel ; the Bin Mahfo u z fami ly , separate members o f w hich o w n N at io n a l Co mm erc ia l Ban k , Saud i Arab ia 's l a rges t ban k , an d the Sau d iEco n o mic D eve lo pmen t Co.;and the Abdullat i f Jami l G ro u p o f co m pan ies are amo n g 15 0 accounts being monitored by SA M A, the Saudis andRiyadh-based U.S. officials said.

,- , t ... ., , , 1 The U.S. officials said the names of the accounts w e r e presented by the U.S.to Saudi ArabiaSe e f u l l c o ve ra ge of the A f t e r m a t h o f T e r r o r 1 . ., c , ,, . . ,,. , . ., T I C , T -, .Y f ,. , ... , , . , a s in ce th e Sept. 1 1 terrorist attacks in th e U.S.They said four Saudi chanties an d eight businessesw ere also amo n g 140 w o r ld - w id e n ames g iven to Sau d i Arab ia l as t mo n th .The U .S. off icials said the U.S. had agreed n ot to publish the names o f Saudi ins t i tut ions and indiv iduals provided Saudi authori t ies took appropriateaction. Many of the Saudi accounts on the U.S.list belong to legit imate enti t ies and businessmen who may in the past have had an associat ion w i t hinst i tut ions suspected o f l i n k s to terrorism, th e officials said. T he officials said s imilar agreements ha d been reached with authori t ies in K u w a i t and theU ni t ed Arab Emirates . "This arrangement sends out a warning to people," one U.S. official said.Since Sept. 1 1 th e U.S. g o v e r n m e n t an d several mult inat ional bodies including th e United Nations have published a series o f l is ts o f gro u ps an dindividuals accused of involvement in terrorism. In many cases, those on the l is t have had their assets frozen. The lates t Saudi accounts aren ' t on anyofficial lists.SA MA couldn ' t be reached fo r co mmen t . I n a recent report to the U.N. about combating terrorism, however, the Saudi government said, " SA MA senta circular to al l Saudi banks to unco ver wh ether those l is ted in suspect l is ts have any real conn ection w ith terrorism."Saudi Arabia has frozen the accounts of several businessmen suspected by the U.S. o f hav in g fu n d ed te rro r is t o rgan iza t io n s , i n c lu d in g tho s e o f J id d a-based Y as s in a l Q ad i. Amo n g the Bin M ahfo u z fam i l y , Abd u l rahman b in Mahfo u z w as a bo ard m ember o f M u w a f a q , a defunct Jersey-registeredcharity headed by Mr. Qadi. Mr. Qadi is accused by the U.S. as being associated with terrorism._

^Mr . Qadi has challenged the freezing o f his assets in a B ri t ish court as well as at the European Court of Justice.Speaking in a telephon e interview , Mr. Mahfo uz denied that SAMA w as mon itoring accounts related to his family or business . "I don ' t bel ieve that ourn ames ar e a m o n g th e 150. N o n e of our accounts ar e under SAM A's supervis ion."H e said authori t ies in Britain had,however, recently frozen accounts of the In te rn a t io n a l D eve lo pmen t F u n d , a British-based charity operated byseveral of his uncles . A law yer for M r. Mah fouz said that he and his father , Kh aled bin Mahfo uz, had n o financial in terest in IDF or Saudi EconomicD eve lo pmen t , kn o w n as SED CO , the co mpan y o w n ed by K ha led b in Mahfo u z ' s fo u r b ro thers .I n a s ta temen t , th e fo u r B in Mah fouz brothers said, "SEDC O, l ike th e I D F , condemns utter ly an y terrorist activity. I t h as never funded terroristorganizations o r terroris ts , e i ther through man agers o r employees."


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17) The Saudi-Al Qaeda ConnectionBy Michael Isikoff and Mark HosenballNewsweek

A cache of documents purportedly recove red from the files of ex-Taliban chief Mullah Omar inAfghanistan provides potentially damning new evidence of a secretive money trail through w hichmillions of dollar in funds from Saudi Arabia allegedly flowed to A l Qaeda terrorists in the late1990s.ONE OF the documents, obtained by NEWSW EEK, appears to be a direct order from MullahOmar to the Afghan ambassador in Pakistan to turn over $2 million "in Saudi Arabia aids" to JonJuma Namangani, a charismatic former Soviet paratrooper wh o became one of the most fearedterrorists in Central Asia.Namangani--who headed the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the U.S. State Departmentdesignated a terrorist group-was once a close associate of Osama bin Laden until he was killedin a U.S. bombing raid nearly two years ago."Pay $2 million from Saudi A rabia aids to respected brother Jon Juma Namagani," reads thedirective signed "M.M. Omar" on the stationary of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The order,written in Pashto, is addressed to the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad and is dated Nov. 21, 1999.(The letter bears the Islamic equivalent date of 12/8/1420.)The letter is among hundreds of pages of documents that was purportedly recovered from MullahOmar's official files after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in the fall of 2001. Some 39 pages ofthese docum ents were recently turned over by sympathetic A fghan sources to agents of RonMotley, the lead U.S. lawyer in a massive $1 trillion lawsuit against top Saudi governmentofficials, charities and leading businessmen filed on behalf of the families of victims of theSeptember 11 terror attacks.The key phrase in the document--"Saudi Arabia aids"-is cryptic, and Motley concedes he doesn'tknow whether it refers to funds that came from the Saudi government, Islamic charities based inSaudi Arabia or som e other Saudi-based so urce. Still, he called the documents among the mostsignificant yet that have tu rned up in a nearly yearlong e ffort by his legal team to establish Saudicomplicity in the financing of Al Qaeda."This shows direct payments m ade to Al Q aeda from Saudi funds," said M otley. "Ev erybody talksabout the smoking gun. Well, we've found the pistol on the side of the road. Now all we have todo is f ind the smoking bullet."English versions of other docum ents, prepared by translators working for Motley, appear to showthe Taliban leader ordering similar releases of millions of dollars in funds "from the aids of SaudiArabia, brotherly country," as well as the "the brotherly nation" of the United Arab Emirates. Otherorders refer to "Wafa aids" and "the aids of AI-Rasheed"~two apparent references to Islamiccharities that have been linked by U.S. officials to the financing of terrorism. The other documentsdirect that the paym ents go to m ore obscure figures with Arabic names who could not beimme diately identified. B ut Motley contends that he was able to identify one of the recipients,Jaladin Haqani, as a former Taliban commander assigned to protect A l Qaeda forces, and that hebelieves the other recipients were aligned with either the Taliban or Al Q aeda.William Wechsler, a former National Security Council official who specialized in terror financingduring the Clinton administration, said the 1999 Mullah Omar directive to release funds to


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Saudi-Owned Wahhabi Mosques in America;An Entrenched Support Network of TerrorOverview

"Before September 11 , al-Mihdhar, al-Hazmi, Hanjour, Atta, alShehhi, an d possibly other hijackersattended at least seven mosques in California, Florida, Virginia, Arizona, and Maryland, some o f whichwere also attended by persons of interest to the FBI."- Repor t of th e Joint Inquiry into th e Terror is t Attacks of September 11, 2001To follow is an analysis of a number of Saudi-owned and financed mosques in America that have significantlinks to the 9/11 hijackers, other known al Qaeda terrorist operatives and financiers, and Burnett defendantIslamic charities. This memo illustrates a deeply-rooted web of Wahhabi activities at a number of mosquesnationwide that are supported by the Saudi government financed Islamic Society of North America (ISNA),and its subsidiary, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT).Of particular interest for our purposes is the revelation that ISNA an d NAIT are directly connected to YaqubMirza and a number of Islamic mutual investment funds based in the United States worth more than $60million in assets. NAIT is also connected to the Quranic Literacy Institute, Global Relief Foundation,and Benevolence International.hi addition, I believe this information illustrates a strong pattern of hub-and-spoke relationships betweenNAIT and increasingly extremist Wahhabist mosques that have supported al-Qaeda related fundraising,recruiting, and logistical activities since at least the early 1990s.At this point in time, there has not been a publicly acknowledged Government investigation of NAIT'sactivities, nor has there been a public report completed of the organization's contributions and receipts.The information included has been derived from various open news and web-based sources. A subsequentsearch of our internal collections will be conducted to learn of other international al Qaeda connections withthese mosques and organizations.

ISNA & NAIT: A "Clearinghouse forWahhabism"BackgroundAccording to the St. Petersburg Times, "The main clearinghouse fo r Wahhabism in the United States is agroup not known to be under investigation, the Islamic Society ofNorth America. ISNA is subsidized bythe Saudi government."(SOURCE: Mary Jacoby, "Saudi form of Islam Wars with Moderates, "St. Petersburg Times, March 11 ,2003.)In 1981, the Islamic Society of North America w as established by affiliates of the Muslim StudentAssociation as an umbrella organization to coordinate an d promote Muslim civic activities nationwide.(SOURCE: Jane Lampman, "Islam on Campus, "Christian Science Monitor, November 8, 2001)Th e North American Trust, an ISNA subsidiary, owns about 27 percent of the estimated 1,200 mosques inthe United States, or at least 250 out of some 1,200 nationwide, states a report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, entitled "The Mosque in America." Significantly, NAIT holds title to a number ofmosques and Islamic centers with direct links to the hijackers and other key al Qaeda operatives. These


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W A L L S T R E E T J O U R N A L .ONLINENovember 26, 2002

FROM THE ARCHIVES: November 26, 2002Terror Investigators FollowedFunds to a Saudi BusinessmanMr. Qadi's Deals Are Un der U.S. Scrutiny;H e Denies Charges, bu t Case Is I l lum inat ingBy G L E N N R . SIMPSO NStaff Reporter of THE W AL L STREET JOUR NA LYassin Qadi is a tall, bearded businessman whose financial interests in the 1990s spanned the globe fromJeddah to Malaysia to the suburbs of Washington. In Saudi Arabia, he is k nown as pious, wealthy an d mild-mannered. I n the U.S., he is seen by government investigators as a leading member of a global network thatfinances both Islam ic good works an d terrorism.One month after the Sept. 1 1 attacks, the U.S. Treasury labeled M r. Qadi, who is 47 years old, a "speciallydesignated global terrorist" and froze his assets in the U.S. and Europe. The government says that Mr. Qadian d organizations he controls move money from Saudi sources through numero us businesses an d charitiesworld-wide. Some of the money ends up in the hands of terrorists, the U.S. says. M r. Qadi declines tocomment, bu t through hi s lawyers, he denies ever kno win gly doing business with terrorists or financingthem. He hasn't been prosecuted, and his attorneys are trying to persuade the Treasury of his innocence.

SAUDI FINANCING Saudi Princess's Gi f t Strains U.S.Ties to Persian Gul f Ally411/25/02 Sept. 11 Suit to Add Defendants,Including Saudi Minister. Bank511/22/02 O'Neill Promises U.S. Caution inCiting Saudi, Terror Links603/07/02 Saudis Monitor Key Bank Accountsfo r Terror Funding702/06/02 Saudi Bu sinessman Qadi Petit ionsCourt to Release Assets812/21/01 Bush's Financial War onTerrorIncludes S trikes at Islamic Charit ies909/25/01

Three CasesPieced together from U.S. court filings an d interviews, some of Mr. Qadi's financial activities an d relationships offer tentative answers to two keyquestions: How does money ge t from wealthy Saudis an d Saudi charities to extremist groups around the world? And why does some of it movethrough the U.S.?

MORE COVERAGEMuslim FBI Agent Is Accused of Not TapingTerror Suspects1For continuing coverage, see War onTerror2.

In onecase, Mr. Qadi gave $820,000 to a Chicago charity that subsequently gave funds to a manconvicted in Israel of helping bu y weapons fo r Hamas, the Palestinian group known fo rsponsoring terror attacks against Israel. In a second instance, a Saudi-backed charity in Virginiainvested $2.1 million in a real-estate company that shared offices with a New Jersey firm ownedby Mr. Qadi and the money disappeared. U.S. investigators say they have evidence suggestingthat the real-estate company, in which M r. Qadi formerly was an investor, may later haveprovided funds fo r terrorism abroad.In a third case, the U.S. arm of a Malaysian company of which Mr. Qadi was a director alongwith that same S audi-backed charity in Virginia - invested in a Chicago company that wasstockpiling dangerous chem icals. The Chicago companywas headed by a man whom U.S. officials suspect of being a Hamas associate.

Preserving AppearancesSome U.S. officials say all of this complexity is designed to shield wealthy Saudis from direct association with extremist groups. "I t looked bad forpeople in Saudi Arabia to be writing checks from a bank in Riyadh to Hamas," says M ark Flessner, a former federal prosecutor. He spent yearstracking M r. Qadi an d suspected terrorist cells in Chicago as part of a Justice Department probe in the late 1990s known as Operation Vulgar Betrayal.Sponsors of extremist groups "were able to hide their Saudi financial sources by bringing funds into an d through the U.S.," M r. Flessner says.JTheinvestigation ended without indictments in 1999 bu t recently ha s been restarted.Th e Saudi money moves through the U.S. for the same reasons that attract other global investors, M r. Flessner says: American financial institutions

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List of Early al Qaeda Donors Points to Saudi Elite, CharitiesBy GLENN R. SIMPSONStaff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL(See Corrections & Amplifications item below.)WASHINGTON - A cache of al Qaeda documents seized last year by U.S. agents in Bosniaidentifies some of Saudi Arabia's richest and most influential families as among the firstfinancial supporters of Osama bin Laden, and shows how al Qaeda used charitable arms ofthe Saudi government.An account of the roots of al Qaeda found on a computer used by a suspected al Qaeda frontgroup contains a 1988 memorandum listing 20 Saudi financial backers of Mr. bin Laden - "theGolden Chain," as the bin Laden organization called it. The list includes the families of threebillionaire Saudi banking magnates, several top industrialists and at least one formergovernment minister.The Golden Chain list, which doesn't indicate the size of the donations, was drawn up at a timewhen supporting the Afghan revolt against Soviet invaders -- Mr. bin Laden's cause at the time- was a top U.S. foreign-policy objective, aswell as a Saudi national cause with deep patrioticand religious overtones. The list doesn't show any continuing support for al Qaeda after theorganization began targeting Americans, but a number of the Saudis on it have been underscrutiny by U.S. officials as to whether they have supported terrorism in recent years.U.S.-Saudi TiesDisclosure of the documents ~ hundreds of pages of internal correspondence over more thana decade between al Qaeda leaders, as well as the list -- comes at atfawkward moment forthe Bush administration. As the U.S. approaches war with Iraq, it is relying on Saudi Arabiansupport, particularly use of Prince Sultan Air Base, near the Saudi capital of Riyadh.THE GOLDEN CHAIN

See the list of donors originally filed under seal in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (United SEnaam Arnout.) The list was seized from the Benevolence International Foundation, an alleged al Qaeda front. A cfiling, "BIF possessed a handwrittendraft list of people referred to within Al Qaeda as the 'Golden Chain,' wealthymujahedeen efforts. At the top of the list is a Koranic verse stating 'And spend for God's cause.' The list contains1after each name is a parenthetical, likely indicating the person who received the money from the specifieddonor."

the Justice Department. It names billionaire bankers Saleh Kamel and Khalid bin Mahfouz, aswell as the AI-Rajhi family, another banking family, and Mr. bin Laden's own brothers. Anumber of the Saudis on the list, including the bin Mahfouz, AI-Rajhhand Kamel families, areamong those under U.S. scrutiny. rv

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Before Sept. 11, he says, the case mo st l ikely would have been worke d as a false-ID case andended there. Instead, dozens of law-enforcement agencies were involved and hundreds ofsubpoenas we re served. "This case was very high priority," says Featherston.Still, investigators have bee n unable to answe r questions such as: Where was the so dium-cyanide bomb destined? And w ere the we apons being prepared for a group or sold individually?Featherston says the investigation is ongoing and won 't end until these questions are answered.Experts say the case is important not only because of what it says about increased governmentcooperation, but also because it shows how serious a threat the, country face s from within. "Thelesson in the Krar case is that we have to always be concerned about dome stic terrorism. It wouldbe a terrible mistake to believe that terrorism always come /from outside," says Mark Potok at theSouthern Poverty Law Center in Montgome ry, Ala.The fact is, the number of dome stic ter rorist acts in/fhe past five ye ars far outweighs the numberof international acts, says Mark Pitcavage of the/act-finding department at the Anti-DefamationLeague. "We do have home-grown hate in the/United States, people who are just as ill-disposedto the Am erican government as any international terrorist group," he says.Levitas e stimates that there are approxh/nately 25,000 right-wing e xtremist me mbers and activistsand some 250,000 sympathizers. The/Southern Pove rty Law Center counted 708 hate groups in2002.While Mr. Pitcavage was surprise^ the Krar case did not receive m ore attention, "It is a fact that alot of stories involving domesti^extremists get undercovered," he says. He po ints to a case hecalls one of "the major terrorist plots of the 1990s" in wh ich m ilitia from around the countryconverge d in central Texas/allegedly to attack a military base. They we re arrested at acampground near Fort Hood on the mo rning of July 4, 1997, with a large collection of weaponsand explosives. "There was virtually no m edia coverage of that incident e ither," says Pitcavage.Featherston speculates that the Krar case got little attention because the arrests w ere m ade justafter the war began in Iraq. "E xcuse me, a chemical weapon was found in the hom e state ofGeo rge Bush," says Levitas. "I'm no t saying the Justice Department de liberately decided todownplay the story because they thought it might be embarrassing to the US government ifweapons of mass destruction w ere found in Ame rica before they were found in Iraq. But I amsaying it was a mistake not to give this higher profile."For his part, Krar has remained silent. He will most likely be sentenced s om etime in February,and could receive up to life in prison. His attorney, Tonda C urry, says the US governme nt has noreason to be afraid of h im. "It looks a whole lot wo rse than it is. He had a lot of things that mostpeople wo uld never have any desire to have, but much of what he had was p erfectly legal."

10. Saudi Funds Tied To Extremism in EuropeDAVID CRAWFORD and IAN JOHNSONWall Street JournalFor years, Saudi Arabian support for E urope's burgeoning Muslim population was seen as littlemore than benign help for some times beleaguered immigrants. In a remarkable change, Europe'spolice and intelligence force s have revised their view, identifying Saudi m oney and theo logy as acause for growing radicalism and support for terrorism.In recent mo nths, countries a cross the continent have launched inquiries into Saudi influence ontheir M uslim comm unities, which in som e countries account for more than 10% of the populationand are gro wing rapidly due to immigration. The investigations focus e specially on Saudi-backed

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". . .Are you among those who are called to spend in the Cause of Allah,yet among you are some who are niggardly.And whoever isniggardly, it is only at the expense of his own self.Bu t Allah is Rich (free of all needs), and you (mankind) are poor.And if you turn away (from Islam and the obedience to Allah),He will exchange you for some other people and they will not be your likes "[Surah 47 Muhammad: 38 ]

"Alhamdulillah Wa Salaatu w a Salaamu Alaa Rasool i l lah"(All Praise be to Allah, and Peace and Prayers beupon His Messenger, Muhammed;To Proceed:A l Haramain Charitable Foundation has establ ished the following bank accountsin order to receive donations directly for the specific projects l is ted:

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Your Beating Heart and Compassionate Handfor Your Muslim BrethrenAllah The Mighty and Majestic says in Soorah AI-Baqarah:If yo u disclose your sadaqaat (alms-giving) it is well, but if you conceal it and giveit to the poor that is better fo r you. Allah will forgive you some of your sins. AndAllah is knows al l that you do. Not upon yo u (Muhammad) is their guidance, bu tAllah guides whom He wills. And whatever yo u spend in good, it is for yourselves,

when yo u spend in good, it will be repaid to you in full and you shall not bewronged.AI-Baqarah 271 - 272Ab u Hurairah (radiallahu v anhu ) reported that th e Prophet (sallal lahu 'alaihi wa sal lam) said:Every day two angels come down and one of them says,'Oh Allah! Compensate every person who spends in your cause',and the other says,'Oh Allah! Destroy every miser.'(Mutafaqun 'alaih)

IntroductionAll praise an d thanks is due to Allah and may salaat an d salaam be upon ou r PropheMuhammad an d upon his fami ly an d fol lowers an d companions.Indeed e em aan (faith) increases and becom es stronger w ith obedienc e and righteous deecand for one who is beautified with the p raiseworthy characteristics is a sign of su ccess frorAllah and for one who is characterized as possessing honor and generosity is a sign ceemaan. Also whom Al lah opens their heart to these favors wi l l be counted among thrighteous if Al lah w i l ls . Whoev er finds it important to aspire an d str ive fo r higher matterkeeps themselves away from miserliness and purif ies their wealth through giving char i t(sadaqah) and getting close to Allah by the b est of deeds. Islamic society has qualit ies anpeculiarit ies which raise i t above all other human societies and these outstanding qualit iestem from the div ine shariah through w hich Allah has ennob led this um mah by m aking it thbest of nations from among mankind. This superiority however, is only conferred upon thoswho possess the above mentioned characteristics and adhere to those attributes.Among the m ost outstanding of the chara cteristics of Mu slim society is mu tua l responsib il i tand human understanding as wel l as continuity, goodness, cohesion, connectedness anwhere equality pre va ils along with kindness. Individuals are tightly connected througbrotherhood an d cooperat ion an d love is fostered between them as Allah states: "Verily thbelievers are brethren." And in deeds as He states, "and cooperate in righteousness anpiety".

The Most Important Aims of the FoundationTo establish the correct b eliefs (al'aqeedah as-saheehah) in the hearts of the M uslims ascomes from the Book of Allah and the Sunnah based upon the understanding of the righteouan d pious generations.Concentrat ion on teaching the authentic sunnah (as-sunnah as-saheeha h), c lar i fy ing andexplaining i ts importance in understanding beliefs, worship and practice.

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A StudybyA l i A I - A h m e d&S t e p h e n Schwartz

The Foundat ion forthe Defense of Democracies

Ha t eS p e e c hin U . S .Executive Summary

A dosereadingofSaudi-fundedtextbooksandother publicationsthat nonationshouldbepromoting, least ofallanationthat callsitself Americasally in thewaragainst terrorism.Thematerialsexaminedfcffthe purposes ofthisstudy includeanti-(non-Vfahhabi) Muslims,The materials includealso the followingincitement: **Ilie unbelievers, idolaters andothers like them mustbehatedanddespised."TJiesepnxlucts atedistributedbySaudiofficials including seniordiplomats at the Saudi Embassy - aswell as by Saudi-fundedorgariizauonssuchasthe\)(


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National ReviewDecember 5, 2002, Thursday

SECTION: National Review Online; Guest CommentLENGTH: 546 wordsHEADLINE: The Roots of TerrorBYLINE: By Jonathan Levin; Jonathan Levin is a terrorism analyst with the Investigative Project, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank tracking terrorists and their supporters around the world.BODY:

The well-oiled Saudi PR machine chugged into action this week with foreign-policy adviser Adel al-Jubeir at thehelm. "For too long Saudi Arabia has been wrongly accused of being uncooperative or ineffective in combatingterrorism," al-Jubeir proclaimed to an audience of newsmen at the Saudi embassy, "the unfounded charges against SaudiArabia have gotten out of control."Al-Jubeir went on to list the Saudis' successful strikes against terrorism: arresting the mastermind of 2000's USSCole bombing, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri; freezing nearly $5.6 million in terrorist assets; freezing Wael HamzaJulaidan's assets. The finishing touch, Al-Jubeir said, is the enactment of stringent measures by which the Saudigovernment can track the finances of charities that have in the past funded al Qaeda. Al-Jubeir then pointed out that thenew accounting measures are merely precautionary, telling reporters, "W e have not found a direct link between charity

groups and terrorism."Of course, Saudi-based charities have raised millions (if not billions) of dollars for terrorism. One Saudi charity, AlHaramain Charitable Trust, has had it offices in Bosnia and Somalia declared Specially Designated Global Terrorist(SDGT) entities. Another charity, the Rabita Trust, has been marked SPOT outright.The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) and International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) are two-ofRabita Trust's sister organizations. Th e W all Street Journal recently published an in-depth account of the tiesbetwegnIIKD, Saudi al Qaeda financier YassitTapQadi andlhe 1998 African-embassy bombings. liRTJhas been lmkedlo~^planned attacks in Pakistan, India, the PTulIppinesT-and-A-frtea:WAMY was founded in the United States by Osama bin Laden's brother, Abdullah. The short WAMY bookIslamic Views, printed by the Saudi government's Armed Forces Printing Press, contains passages such as, "[TJeach ou rchildren to love taking revenge on the Jews and the oppressors, and teach them that our youngsters will liberatePalestine and al-Quds when they go back to Islam and make Jihad for the sake of Allah."The Saudi promise to cut of fa l Qaeda funding is a welcome development. W hat is troubling is, just as Al Jubeir isannouncing his government's new accounting practices, Saudi royals are donating to some of the worst offenders. Theweekly political magazine Ain al Yaqeen ("Heart of the Matter"), reppiteilonJSfovember 29 that Prince Abdul Maieedibn A bdujAziz recently headlined a joint WAMX/aLHaramain fundraiser mid gave a $ 4 U , U O O donation. A coupleweeks later, Prince Mohammed ibn Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz spoke at a fundraiser for WAMY1, al-Haramain, and IIRO.American public opinion is against the Saudis because of precisely these sorts of deceptions. Saudi minister of theinterior Prince Nayef Ibn Abd Al-Azizs told the Kuwaiti paper al-Siyaasa, "w e [the Saudis] put big question marks andask who committed the events of September 11 and who benefited from the. Who benefited from events of 9/11? I think


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Voice of Am erica NewsDecember 14, 2002

SECTION: ON THE LINE 1-01244LENGTH: 3540 wordsHEADLINE: WHO BANKROLLS TERROR?TEXT:THEME: UP, HOLD UND ER AND FADE

Host: W ho bankrolls terror? Ne xt, On the Line,[music]Host: Inv estigators in the United States are looking into whether money from the wife of the Saudi Ambassador tothe U-S ended up in the pockets of two of the terrorists who crashed a plane into the Pentagon on September 11 th,2001. As first reported in Newsweek magazine, Princess Haifa Bint Faisal sent thousands of dollars in cashiers checksto a Saudi woman who had asked for help paying medical bills. Instead, the woman gave the money to a friend whosehusband in turn gave some money, an d other help, to two men who were part of the September 11th al-Qaida terroristattacks. The Saudi Embassy insists that the princess had no idea that the money she gave out of charity was put to otheruses. But the controversy ha s prompted new questions in Washington about whether money given to Saudi charities ha s

been diverted to finance terror. Joining me to talk about this issue, are Michael Isikoff, investigative correspondent atNewsweek magazine; Matt Levitt, senior fellow at the Washington Institute fo r Near East Policy an d Eleana Gordon,policy director at the Foundation for the Defense of Dem ocracies. Welcom e, thanks fo r joining us today.Michael Isikoff, you broke the story in Newsweek about these donations and where the money went, so why don'tyou walk us through the story yo u reported.Isikoff: Well, this really begins with investigations into the September 11th attack and, in particular, two of thehijackers. Khalid Alm ihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi were in San Diego came into the country in January 2000 -- and itturned out had a lot of help in San Diego from members of the Islamic com mun ity. In particular, on e guy, named Omaral-Bayoum i, a Saudi student in the United States who happened to have m et them at the airport when they landed in L-A, happened to have offered to assist them moving down to San Diego, drove them there, set them up in an apartmentnext door to his, helped them pay the rent an d then sm oothed their way for entree into the Islamic comm unity, includinggetting some of his friends to help them ge t into flight school, ge t social security cards, drivers licenses. It turned ou tthat al-Bayoumi in turn was receiving, had an associate, M r. [Osama] Basnan, another Saudi student in the UnitedStates, who was receiving a fairly substantial assistance from the Saudi Embassy in Washington. In particular, PrincessHaifa, the wife of the Saudi ambassador, Prince Bandar, in the form of cashiers checks, totaling about a hundred-and-thirty-thousand dollars over a four year period. Some of those cashiers checks that were sent to the wife of Basnan, weregiven to the wife of Bayoumi an d Bayoumi appeared to have gotten some of that money. The question investigatorswanted to know was, was Bayoumi an d perhaps Basnan being subsidized fo r some purpose to either assist the hijackersor keep an eye on them.Host: And what do investigators think?


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Publications Research Topics lAboutFDDPRINT & ONLINEPortrait of a WahhabiBy Stephen SchwartzFrontPage.comJune 30, 2003Website: http://wv\w.frontpagemag.com/Artic|es/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8642On Thursday, June 2 6 , 1 testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee onTerrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, chaired by Sen. Jon Ky i (R-Ariz).My topic was 'Wahhabism and Islam in the U.S." I outlined the outrageousdegree to which Saudi-funded Wahhabi extremists, who are supportersofterrorism, have come to dominate Islam in the U.S. My testimony was notgreeted with enthusiasm by James Zogby, the phony civil rights leader whoheads the "Arab American Institute." Zogby, a Lebanese Christian once knownfo r his moderate camouflage on Israel, but now a shameless apologist for theSaudis, immediately fired off a press release. He described me and my fellowwitness, Aex Aexiev of the Center fo r Security Policy, with mangled syntax, as"virulent anti-American Arab and Muslim critics whose writings and statementsdisplay a consistently misinformed and hurtful tone. Schwartz denigratesAmerican Muslims by describing Wahhabism as an 'extremist, puritanical andviolent movement,'" healleged. In reality, it is Zogby who may be described withperfect accuracy as a "virulent anti-American Arab." He demanded that hissupporters send e-mails to Sens. Ky i and Danne Feinstein (D-Calif), protestingagainst the very fact that the hearing was held. While this was taking place,federal agents were poised to arrest six Muslim men in the Washington area andin Pennsylvania. Two of their codefendants were already in custody. Three ofthem have fled to Saudi Arabia. They total 11, and are charged with conspiringwith a Wahhabi group based in Pakistan - Lashkar-i-Taiba or "Army of theRighteous" - to commit terrorism in Kashmir, Chechnya, andelsewhere.The lead indictee, arrested early Friday, is a man named Randall Royer, whocalls himself by the Islamic name "Ismail." He's someone I know pretty well. But Iknow some of his playmates even better. Royer used to operate a "blog," whichremains accessible on the net: ismailroyer.blogspot.com. Go to the page andlook in the right column and you will find me described as "Washington BureauChief, The Forward," a position I have not held for almost two years. This, ofcourse, is his way of identifying me as Jewish. And if you hit the link at my name,you go straight to the Nazi swill of Bill White, the compulsive liar from SilverSpring, Md., writing in the depraved Pravda, organ of the red-brown Communazialliance. I first heard of Royer in January 2002, when I was working at the Voiceof America. He had called my successor at the Forward, and, identifying himselfas Randall, not Ismail, asked if he could talk to me about religion in Bosnia. TheForward reporter passed the message on, and being the kind of free-speakingperson I am, I responded. But as soon as I e-mailed Randall Royer, what did Iget back? From an e-mail address in Bosnia, he falsely identified himself aswriting for beliefnet, a religious news website. He sent me a defamatory quotefrom the notorious Saddamizer and admirer of Axis seditionists, Dennis "Justin"Raimondo, proprietor of the antiwar.com website. Royer added a false

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PRINT & ONLINESaudi DupesBy Stephen SchwartzThe New York PostJuly 11, 2003Website: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/274.htmAdherents of the violently uncompromising Wahhabi sect, the state religion ofSaudi Arabia, are killing other Muslims overseas, and attacking coalition troops inIraq. On our side of the globe, bloodshed is blessedly limited, but a battlecontinues, for the education and mobilization of the public.On July 4, three Wahhabi terrorists killed 48 people and injured 50 more at aShia mosque in Quetta, Pakistan. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf andother high officials cautiously admitted they detected a foreign hand in theatrocity.Pakistani Muslims living in America filled in the blanks. Agha Shaukat Jafri,spokesman for the Universal Muslim Association of America (the top U.S. Shiacommunity organization), said: "Every Pakistani Muslim knows the blame forthese dreadful crimes belongs in one place the doorstep of the Saudi princesand the Wahhabi bigots in Riyadh."Top U.S. officials know it, too. Treasury Department General Counsel DavidAufhauser recently described Saudi Arabia as "in many ways, the epicenter" forfunding of al Qaeda and other terrorists. And he pointed to

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