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...discussion moved away from politics, his 18-year-old girlfriend delightedly declared her favorite actors to be Tom Cruise and Nicolas Cage. "I like John Travolta too," Lechali said. If any Iraqis have sympathy for bin Laden, it is not as automatic as it is on the streets of Saudi Arabia and Egypt, putative U.S. allies. Premed student Omar Alazwain, 21, had a quick answer when asked about the Sept. 11 attacks. "We think bin Laden is a terrorist," he said...
...said that starting in January 1999, payments of $2000 a month were made from Princess Haifa's checking account to a woman named Majida Ibrahim Ahmad Dwaikat, a Jordanian national with a green card, who is the wife of Osama Bassnan. Bassnan first came to the attention of the Saudi Embassy in Washington in April 1998, when he wrote a pleading letter to Princess Haifa introducing himself as a Saudi living in Washington with four children and a pregnant wife, who also had a severe thyroid condition. After vetting by the Saudi Embassy, sources say, the Saudi ambassador, Prince Bandar...
...source close to the Saudi government tells TIME that al-Bayoumi made repeated calls to the Saudi Embassy in 2001 - hooking up with the Embassy's Islamic Affairs unit to ask for religious books and materials. The FBI found out about this and asked permission to interview two Saudi diplomats at the Embassy - Ambassador, Prince Bandar gave permission, and the interviews occurred in October...
...being denied access to an FBI informant in the San Diego Arab community, has now spilled into public view. The leaks have thrown the FBI and Justice Department on the defensive. Now the spill-over from this long running dispute has put additional pressure on the already tense U.S.-Saudi relationship...
...Administration officials suspect that one reason the still-murky details of a possible Saudi funds connection to the San Diego hijackers have emerged is an angry behind-the- scenes dispute between the Joint Intelligence Committee's staff and the FBI and Department of Justice over the committee's final report on intelligence failures before the September 11 attacks. According to one source, the FBI was shown a 45-page draft report recently and responded with a 21-page rebuttal citing a long list of errors, overstatements and the like. If the committee proceeds to release its draft...