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To: LindyBill who wrote (58450)	11/23/2002 5:11:25 AM
From: Climber	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

The Saudi's will need all the PR they can get after this: msnbc.com Newsweek is reporting a link between Prince Bandar's wife and some rather unsavory characters. "9-11 Hijackers: A Saudi Money Trail? "Nov. 22 — 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, according to law-enforcement sources." .... Sources familiar with the evidence say the payments—amounting to about $3,500 a month—came from an account at Washington’s Riggs Bank in the name of Princess Haifa Al-Faisal, the wife of Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and the daughter of the late Saudi King Faisal. "....sources describe the financial records as “explosive” and say the information has spurred an intense, behind-the-scenes battle between congressional leaders and the Bush administration over whether evidence highly embarrassing to the Saudi government should be publicly disclosed—especially at a time that the White House is aggressively seeking Saudi support for a possible war against Iraq." And the NYT has this: nytimes.com "9/11 Report Says Saudi Arabia Links Went Unexamined" "The F.B.I. is still investigating how much financial support, if any, was provided by Mr. Bayoumi and Mr. Bassnan to the two men who later turned out to be hijackers. The bureau is also looking into whether senior Saudi officials in the United States may have played some role in distributing funds to Mr. Bayoumi and Mr. Bassnan. " I have a feeling this might turn interesting. Climber@inshallah.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (58450)	11/23/2002 10:08:27 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>And the kingdom -- with all of its piety and with a sharp eye on its own religious fundamentalists -- is all about keeping it that way.<< Accuracy in media. Good for the Washington Post.

To: LindyBill who wrote (58450)	11/23/2002 11:51:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Does your passport show that you were born in Israel? Prepare to wait until kingdom come. It's worse than that. Saudi Arabia doesn't let Jews in at all. They have never made "No Jews" a formal rule, but it's definitely in force. They make exceptions if it suits them, but they generally ask for help with their hypocrisy - I know one man, a religious Jew, who was asked to come for business reasons but told not to bring anything that could identify him as a Jew and to lie about his religion on the entry forms. Then he got to listen to hours of naked anti-Semitism from coworkers.