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When it turned out that as many as 15 of the 19 suspected hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, alarm bells rang in Washington and Riyadh. Although Osama bin Laden himself is a Saudi - or, was, until the government stripped him of his nationality in 1994 - the Kingdom has never been seen as a breeding ground for terrorists...
...proved that this summer when he earned a bronze in the 100 for the United Kingdom at the World University Games in Beijing. His 10.24-second run that earned him fourth at British Nationals last year was nearly a full half-second faster than the winning time at Heps last season...
...jihad. Soon after, according to Turki, bin Laden began taking veterans of the Afghan war to North Yemen to fight the Marxist regime in the Republic of South Yemen. "North Yemen is an arms market. You can buy a weapon anywhere. He had to be stopped," says Turki. "The kingdom said, 'You have done your best to help the mujahedin in Afghanistan. Leave it at that.' He was not pleased...
...Laden grew angrier later that year when the government invited U.S. troops to the kingdom to defend against the menace of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. When bin Laden grew confrontational, the Saudis withdrew his passport. Nevertheless, he made his way to Sudan, where he began to organize for global Islamic revolution...
...after the U.S. had struck Afghanistan with cruise missiles in retaliation for the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania--which were attributed to bin Laden--they had a tense, half-hour exchange. "He reverses himself completely," Turki recalls. "He starts spouting bin Laden propaganda against the kingdom. He was very, very hysterical, high-pitched, screaming, gesticulating. I just stood up and said, 'I'm not going to hear any more of this.' I told him, 'What you are doing is going to bring harm to Afghanistan.'" Just as Turki never grasped the full dangers attached...