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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.boston.com/dailynews/168/wash/Commission_finds_no_evidence_o:.sht ml Commission finds no evidence of Saudi funding of Sept. 11 hijackers By Ken Guggenheim, Associated Press, 6/16/2004 14:31WASHINGTON (AP) The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said Wednesday it found no evidence that the Saudi government funded al-Qaida, though the terror network found ''fertile fund-raising ground in the kingdom.'' The commission specifically cleared the wife of the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, saying it found no evidence she provided money ''directly or indirectly'' to the Sept. 11 conspiracy. Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers. Members of Congress, among others, have questioned whether the royal family provided some support to the hijackers or al-Qaida in general. Those suspicions increased after the Bush administration last year refused to allow the release of a 28-page section of the congressional inquiry into the attacks dealing with foreign support for the hijackers. That section was believed to center on Saudi Arabia. The princess, wife of Prince Bandar, came under scrutiny because she had sent checks to the wife of Osama Basnan, one of two Saudi nationals identified in the congressional report as having ties to two of the hijackers while they lived San Diego. The Saudi government, which strongly denies providing support for terrorists, says those checks were charitable donations to help cover the medical expenses of Basnan's wife. The commission report said there is no evidence that Basnan and the other Saudi, Omar al-Bayoumi, provided funding to the two hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. ''Saudi Arabia has long been considered the primary source of al-Qaida funding, but we found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior officials within the Saudi government funded al-Qaida,'' it said. ''Still, al-Qaida found fertile fund-raising ground in the kingdom, where extreme religious views are common and charitable giving is essential to the culture and, until recently, subject to very limited oversight,'' it said. Saudi Arabia has enacted regulations to block the flow of money to terrorist organizations, according to a report released Tuesday by a task force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. But the task force said the kingdom has stopped short of publicly punishing individuals and groups that have funded terrorism. The Saudi embassy criticized the report as ''politically motivated, ill-informed and factually incorrect.'' Terror attacks have been increasing in Saudi Arabia, with three Westerners killed last week. Another American, Paul Johnson Jr., was kidnapped Sunday and his captors have threatened to kill him unless Saudi authorities release al-Qaida prisoners. ''Any time there is an American citizen involved in a situation like this, it is a high priority'' for the administration, presidential spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters traveling with Bush to Florida Wednesday. ''It is a high priority for the administration,'' he said. ''We are in close contact with Saudi officials. ...We are in close contact with Mr. Johnson's family as well. The president is being briefed and kept in touch with the situation on a regular basis.'' ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! 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