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...officials aren't the only ones on high alert. The May 12 bombings in Riyadh have jolted the Saudis into long-overdue action. FBI agents sent there have found local officials in an uncharacteristically cooperative mood. For the first time, sources tell TIME, Saudis have allowed foreigners to interrogate their citizens. Still, as many as 10 al-Qaeda cells exist in Saudi Arabia, U.S. officials say, and at least one is active. Moreover, the Saudi royals derive legitimacy from the country's fundamentalist clergy, many of whom may resent a crackdown on al-Qaeda. "It's like they...
...TIME has learned that FBI director Robert Mueller will make an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia this week to thank the Saudis for their cooperation and keep up the momentum. A U.S./Saudi task force has already conducted more than 400 joint interviews, end-running laws that forbid foreign investigators from questioning Saudi citizens, and FBI evidence recovery technicians are working closely with their Saudi counterparts to collect explosive residue and other forensic clues in the Riyadh wreckage...
...Relations improved after FBI director Louis Freeh made a number of trips to Saudi Arabia, and on June 21, 2001, the Justice Department obtained an indictment charging 13 Saudi members of Hezbollah and one unidentified Lebanese man with complicity in the bombing. (An important note as the Bush administration tries to make the case the Iran is currently harboring al-Qaeda members: The indictment charged that an Iranian military officer had directed two of the defendants to conduct surveillance on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast for likely places to attack Americans and that Iranian officials financed the Saudi Hezbollah...
...FBI officials say the Saudis were also less than helpful when the U.S. was looking at possible roles played by Saudi nationals in the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi and the suicide attack on the USS Cole. And after the 9/11 attacks, the FBI quickly established that 15 of the hijackers were almost certainly Saudi citizens, but the Saudi government denied that fact for months and moved slowly to respond to U.S. requests for their passport photos, fingerprints, associates and other data...
...first wave of 60 FBI agents sent to investigate the Riyadh attack has returned to Washington. A second, smaller team will soon be deployed to run down leads and search for possible links between the Riyadh bombers and simultaneous attacks that occurred in Casablanca...