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CNN
SHOW:
CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL 10:00December
3,
2002 Tuesday
Transcript
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120301CN.V54
SECTION:
News; International
LENGTH:
8072 words
HEADLINE:
Saudi Arabian Press Conference on Terror Investigation
BYLINE:
Leon Harris, Andrea Koppel
HIGHLIGHT:
The
Saudi Arabian
press
conference
on
their terror investigation.
BODY:
LEONHARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Saudi Arabia talks about its role on the war on terrorism. Now, any minutenow,
officials
are set toreleaseareport detailing whatthekingdomhasdone,andsays willdo, totrack 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 conferenceis set to getunderway anytime this hour
—
as yousee, there'salive picture thatwehaveset
up
—
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 Koppel. 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 who is the top diplomat in this building here at the Saudi embassy, Prince Bandar bin Sultan,andhis
wife,
Princess
Haifa,
had been accused by unnamed U.S.
officials
of inadvertently supporting passing donations
to
individuals
who
ended
up
giving
the
money
- may
have given
the
money,
in
fact,
to two of the
9/11 hijackers.Itis 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
linkedto
terrorism that the Saudi government today decided to take the PR
offensive.
 
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The
Washington TimesDecember
4,
2002, Wednesday, Final Edition
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PAGE ONE; Pg. A01
LENGTH:
940 words
HEADLINE:
Saudis
seek
to cut cash
flow
to
terrorists;
U.S. critics of Riyadh angrily rejected
BYLINE:
By David R. Sands, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BODY:
Saudi Arabia
yesterday
announced new
controls
on its
Muslim
charities
to prevent the flow of
funds
to
violent
Islamist groups, as a top government spokesman angrily rejected criticisms that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom had not doneenoughin theglobalwaragainst 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 Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia's de
facto
leader, condemned whathe called a "feeding
frenzy"
of criticism in the United States directed at Saudi 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," Mr. Al-Jubeir told a packed news conference at the Saudi Embassy."What we need to do, as we have done, is join hands, wrack our brains together, and find ways 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
former
intelligence
chief,
as ambassador to Britain.He denied the appointment had anything to do with giving the prince diplomatic immunity to protect him
from
lawsuits stemming
from
the September
11
attacks.Relatives of about 900 people killed in the attacks on New York and Washington filed a civil lawsuit in the UnitedStates in August accusing three Saudi princes, including Prince Turki, as well as Saudi and foreign banks, of
funding
bin
Laden.
Officially,
the Bush administration has praised Saudi cooperation in the wake of the September
11
attacks, in which
15
of the 19hijackers carried Saudi passports."Our view
has
been
all
along that Saudi Arabia
has
been very cooperative
in
terms
of the war on
terrorism prior
toand
certainly
since
September
11,"
said State
Department
deputy spokesman Philip Reeker, who welcomed the news of
tighter controls over Saudi financial
flows.
Mr. Al-Jubeir said U.S.andSaudi
officials
also will
"reinvigorate"
ajoint
counterterrorism
committee that willmeetin Washington next month to assess the state of financial, intelligence and legal cooperation in the fight againstterrorism.
 
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Says Saudi Arabia is "Mobilized" to Fight Terrorism Page 1 of 3
U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF
SIATE
INTERNATIONAL
INFORMATION
PROGRAMS
International
Security
|Terrorism
12
June
2003
Saudi
Official
Says
Saudi Arabia
is
"Mobilized"
to
FightTerrorism
Says
religious,
financial
andeducation
reforms
areunderway
By
Charles
HaysBurchfield
Washington
File
Staff
Writer
Washington
— The
foreign affairs advisor
to
Crown Prince Abdullah
bin
Abdulaziz
Al-
Saud,
Adel
Al-Jubeir, said Saudi Arabia is doing "everything possible" to
fight
terrorism.
"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
by
al-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 Saudi
Arabia
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 taken
steps
to
improve
the
Saudi educational system.
Al-Jubeir
said Saudi authorities have questioned over 1,000 people since the
terrorist
attackson Sept. 11, 2001 and have detained about 300
Al-Qaeda
members,approximately100 ofwhomareawaiting court trialsin the
country.
In
addition
to
arresting Al-Qaeda members, Saudi Arabian officials have arrested three
clerics
who preached hatred and intolerance, according to Al-Jubeir.
"We
have looked more
intensely
in
terms
of
what
is
being said
in our
mosques
and
trying
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
in
order
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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