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...stanching the flow of funds to al-Qaeda, claiming that the U.S. has never presented evidence to merit a crackdown. That may change this week, when U.S. diplomat Bill Burns visits Saudi Arabia. He will bring with him, U.S. sources tell TIME, intelligence data linking some of the kingdom's leading money men and charities to Osama bin Laden. The data will include sensitive intercepts, human intelligence and wire transfers to back up American demands that the Saudis freeze assets of suspected bin Laden financiers...
...Saudi officials say that it is unfair to blame the country for fomenting terror simply because some of the hijackers were born and raised in the Kingdom. There is some truth in that. Saudi intelligence officials tell TIME that no more than 50 Saudis are thought to be allied with bin Laden in Afghanistan and that his al-Qaeda network in the Kingdom is very small...
...officials and many Saudis, Sept. 11 has focused fresh attention on an even more serious, if less immediate and obvious, concern: the Kingdom's rapidly growing pool of disaffected high-school and university graduates. The fear is that if they are not with bin Laden now, they might turn to him as a role model in the future...
...Even before Sept. 11, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, the Kingdom's de facto ruler, had undertaken a major effort to attract foreign investment and create new jobs. The Kingdom is now also revamping its school curriculum to churn out more scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs rather than religious scholars...
...involve setting foot in a church. Take Prague teacher Vladimir Havel, a Catholic who goes to Mass "maybe once a year." Since Sept. 11, "I have prayed every night," he says, drawing strength from the Paternoster's words and the idea that somewhere, someone is in control: "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven...