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...Bombs exploded almost simultaneously in four movie houses in northern Bangladesh, killing at least 15 people and wounding some 200 others. The movie houses were filled because of the Islamic 'Id al-Fitr festival marking the end of Ramadan's fasting. Authorities suggested al-Qaeda might be to blame. SAUDI ARABIA Getting Tough Foreign affairs adviser Adel al-Jubeir announced a series of measures to prevent Saudi charities from inadvertently funding terrorists. The new measures, such as money-laundering filters and auditing the accounts of Islamic charities, follow U.S. criticism that Saudi authorities were not doing enough to stem...
...Tensions between the longtime allies were obvious even before 9/11, as the Saudis sought desperately to persuade the Bush Administration to more actively pursue a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But when 15 Saudis were among the 19 hijackers on September 11, American public discussion of the kingdom began to change. Skeptics in Congress and the media began drawing uncomfortable attention to the Saudis' role not only in backing Afghanistan's Taliban regime, but in propagating a similarly stark worldview among the world's Muslims. Saudi opposition to a U.S. invasion of Iraq - for fear of consequences more dangerous...
...With bin Laden still at large and al-Qaeda continuing to strike, al-Jubeir's PR campaign faces considerable odds. The history of Saudi support for bin Laden doesn't help. There was a time, in fact, when America's leaders thought it was an exceedingly good idea for wealthy Saudis to send their millions to Osama bin Laden to be used for purposes of jihad. That was back in the mid-1980s, when the target of Bin Laden's jihad was the Soviet army occupying Afghanistan. Bin Laden was a star fundraiser and organizer for a program organized...
...Saudi Arabia's harshest critics in the media and on Capitol Hill have sought to portray the kingdom's rulers as intimately involved with al-Qaeda terrorism, although some of the evidence offered to support these claims is far from convincing - the suggestion that Princess Haifa, the wife of the Saudi ambassador to Washington sent money to 9/11 hijackers, for example, turns out to be based on a charitable check she wrote to a woman who, unbeknownst to the princess, had signed it over to a man who made brief loan to two of the hijackers without knowing their terrorist...
...Jubeir came to Washington this week to tell of the Saudis freezing suspicious bank accounts, questioning more than 2,000 people and holding more than 100 in custody over possible al-Qaeda links. His mission wasn't helped by remarks that same week by Saudi interior minister Prince Nayef blaming the 9/11 attacks on Israeli intelligence. But al-Jubeir soldiers...