To: Hawkmoon who wrote (140 ) 11/30/2002 2:42:09 PM From: KLP Read Replies (1) | Respond to Bandar- Clinton Administration 1996.... Thought I'd see what google has to say about Bandar in the past.... This interview is particularly interesting when one looks at the current events and see what he had to say 6 years ago....saudiembassy.net two specific questions, why the four perpetrators of last November’s bombing were not allowed to be interviewed by American security, and why there had been refusal to widen the perimeter around the Al-Khobar apartment complex, Prince Bandar was adamant that neither statement was accurate, saying: “What’s accurate is there was great cooperation between us ….. the end result was achieved by mutual consent”. Referring to the punishment of those involved in the Riyadh explosion as a Saudi responsibility, he stated: “The families of the five Americans who died ….. at least saw justice being done”. As for security at the Al-Khobar complex, he said: “There was a request that was discussed, plans were made. Nobody knew that at ten o’clock the next evening or the next week, the bomb would go off.” Prince Bandar also pointed out that with the Riyadh explosion using 200 pounds of explosive, no one could have guessed that the next would use, not double, or triple that amount, but 3,000 pounds.
