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To: Ron who wrote (268207)	1/27/2015 7:25:04 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541504

This NYT article makes this Saudi prince in charge of their security sound pretty intelligent. Saudi Succession Hints at Shift in Foreign Role By BEN HUBBARD and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK JAN. 26, 2015 nytimes.com excerpt: Prince Mohammed is a second-generation security chief, the son of the former interior minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz. As deputy minister under his father, Prince Mohammed was credited with a leading role helping Saudi Arabia fend off Al Qaeda and other Islamist militants over the last decade. Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks portray Prince Mohammed as personally motivated to fight militant Islam and in tight cooperation with the United States. In one cable, he said it had been difficult to see that Saudis had played role in the Sept. 11 attacks and other incidents. “Terrorists stole the most valuable things we have,” Prince Mohammed told Richard C. Holbrooke, a former ambassador to the United Nations, in 2008. “They took our faith and our children and used them to attack us.” State Department officials credit Prince Mohammed with developing a distinctive approach to combating terrorist recruiting in the kingdom, working directly with the families of dead militants. By providing support to the families “and telling them their sons had been ‘victims’ and not ‘criminals,’ ” the program gave the families “a way out” and provided a public relations advantage to the government. “If you stop five but create 50,” Prince Mohammed was quoted as saying, “that’s dumb.”