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Greed that feeds terror Washington must press for radical reform in Saudi Arabia if al-Qalda is to be defeated Madeleine Albright Thursday November 27, 2003 The Guardian If there is a central front in the war against terror, it is Saudi Arabia, not Iraq. If Ihe battle there is lost, it will be because of a joint failure on the part of the Saudi royal family and the west, especially the US. If It is to be won, the worst habits of both must change. Saudi Arabia's direction matters because of its role as custodian of Islam's holy places, its status within the Arab world and its oil. A reformed Saudi Arabia could defeat terror at its roots. A radicalised Saudi Arabia could rock the global economy and destabilise the entire Middle East. The latter possibility remains unlikely, but is dire enough to demand serious attention. As the terrorist bombing of a housing complex in Riyadh earlier this month reflects, the House of Saud is besieged. Osama bin Laden has derided the regime as illegitimate, apostate, ineffectual in defending Arab interests, and a lackey of the US. These charges find echoes In the writings of western critics, whose sensationalist books portray Saudi leaders as greedy hypocrites funnelling money to terrorists while throwing wild parties that mock pretensions to piety. Domestically, the regime is facing pressure for greater political openness from both conservative clerics and newly vocal modernlsers. Popular disaffection Is fuelled by the government's inability, despite vast oil reserves, to balance its budget or provide jobs for the 25% of the workforce that is unemployed. What foreign minister Saud al-Faisal has described as "a Middle East sense of time" has not given the Saudi regime fast reflexes. Bludgeoned by criticism since the twin towers attacks, it has been slow to respond. But it is trying to respond. Between September 11 2001 and May this year, the Saudis arrested more than 300 suspected terrorists. On May 12, terrorist bombs killed 35 in the Saudi capital. Since then, the government has arrested 300 more suspects, engaged in shootouts with cells linked to al-Qaida and seized vast quantities of illicit guns, grenades and travel documents. Saudi officials have finally acknowledged - at least Implicitly - the connection between what happens in the streets and what is taught in mosques. More than 3,500 imams have been attending "programmes of re-education" designed to promote tolerance within Islam. The government in Riyadh is moving ahead with plans to privatise numerous economic sectors, encourage trade and foreign Investment, and apply for entry to the World Trade Organisation. One week after Vhe May bombings, a statement issued In the name of King Fahd renounced his country's insular tradition and declared: "We are part of this world and cannot be disconnected from it."

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The ties that bind: Barclays, a bin Laden relative, Carlyle and the BCCI boys By Kevin Dowling November 3, 2001 »

Barclays pic is a "core investor" in a merchant bank set up by Osama bin Loden's brother-in-law on Bcrgcnc's beat—Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Yemeni tycoon Khalid bia Mehfbuz established the Middle East Capital Group (MECG)" oo the tax-haven bland in 1996, only to bo placed under house arrest tn Saudi Arabia three years later. In the wake of the US Embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, Saodi defence minister Frtoe Sultan that Mahfouz bad channelled tens qfjniUions into terrorist accounts in London and New York. T* The maverick financier was no stranger to intrigue—he was the principal shareholder in BCCI ("the Bank of Criminals and Cocaine International")—when it perpetrated the biggest fraud in financial history. Mahfouz bad escaped unscathed in London and managed to plea-bargain his way out of civil and criminal liabilities amounting to more than $10 billion by agreeing to a $225 million settlement with prosecutors in New York. But when a Saudi government audit found another $2 billion missing from the treasury of the world's largest private bank—the $21 billion National Commercial Bank (NCB), which Mahfouz owned—Khalid was forced to sell his shares and take early retirement. U.S. intelligence services want to know how much of that missing money went to front groups secretly tunneling money to Osama bin Ladcn'l al-Qaeda organization. These are alleged to include:

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Saudi money aiding terrorist bin Laden By Jack Kelley, USATODAY WASHINGTON - More than a year after the U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa, prominent businessmen in Saudi Arabia continue to transfer tens of millions of dollars to bank accounts linked to indicted terrorist Osama bin Laden, senior U.S. intelligence officials told USA TODAY. The money transfers, which began more than five years ago, have been used to finance several terrorist acts by bin Laden, including the attempted assassination in 1995 of Egyptian President Hosnl Mubarak in Ethiopia, the officials said. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Is expected to raise the issue with Prince Sultan, the Saudi defense minister, during his visit to Washington next week. Saudi Arabia, the main U.S. ally In the Persian Gulf, has pledged to fight terrorism. According to a Saudi government audit acquired by U.S. intelligence, five of Saudi Arabia's top businessmen ordered the National Commercial Bank (NCB), the kingdom's largest, to transfer personal funds, along with $3 million diverted from a Saudi pension fund, to New York and London banks. The money was deposited into the accounts of Islamic charities, Including Islamic Relief and Blessed Relief, that serve as fronts for bin Laden. The businessmen, who are worth more than S5 billion, are paying bin Laden "protection money" to stave off attacks on their businesses In Saudi Arabia, intelligence officials said. Bin Laden, whose family runs the largest Saudi construction firm, has called for the overthrow of the Saudi government. The money transfers were discovered In April after the royal family ordered an audit of NCB and its founder and former chairman, Khalid bin Mahfouz, U.S. officials say. Mahfouz is now under "house arrest" at a military hospital in the Saudi city of Taif, intelligence officials said. His successor, Mohammad Hussein AI-Amoudi, also heads the Capitol Trust Bank in New York and London, which U.S. and British officials are investigating for allegedly transferring money to bin Laden. Amoudl's Washington lawyer, Vernon Jordan, could not be reached for comment. Mahfouz's son, Abdul Rahman Mahfouz, is on the board of Blessed Relief in Sudan. Suspects in the Mubarak attack are linked to the charity. Bin Laden faces U.S. criminal charges for allegedly masterminding the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people. Bin Laden, who is in Afghanistan, denies the charges. Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan declined to comment on the reports.

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Eotabs, or Bluster? By Madelelae K. Albright: From Poreiga Affaire, September/October 2003

HITHER, OR Every naeioa, in every region, now has a dtcisloo to mako. Bicher you are with us. or you are with ch« terrorists . Thare are only two powers now in th» world. One la America/ which is tyrannical and oppressive. xbia other is a warrior Who has net vat b«en avakenod froa hla sluwbar and Eh*.t warrior IK Islam, Make no mist*Xe about itt tha choice for 0ure la between two visions e£ the world. Pew readers will iail t« identify the tirct cicad above a it VKB Ute*r«»d fey Pr*8ida&e Oeoigo W. BuEh, opetoclng »oon oitar the »«tc«mber 11, 2003,, cerx«ri0t attaok». Pew readara, »i»ilwrly, will b« surprised to lean, that thj» second ^ote cataa Crom a Sunni Muslim cleric ID Baghdad, Zmara Mov«id al-Ubaldi. The third quota, however, nay be a bit harder to id«&eify: it waa 0poket\y reeach Foreign Mioiatac Dominique do Villepin. deocrlhing the di££ereat vorld views sow Held by Washington and Paris. And it should rwaind U9 that not everyone divides bh« world alongthe «ane liootf aa tha TOaitesS Fraaiog chola«9 is cracral to national aecuriry policy. Sinac World War XI, no nation h«q played a mote Influential role in deflfilag ouch alternatives th&n the XTnited States. Today, however, the Bueh adtttinitftratlon purportc to be reda£ining the funAMTOntal choice rev«ry natlcm, in avory rasion" muse make. America 'a radical «dversari«e <-- eagaj- co promote thema elves an the Cnited states ' chief benveo -- are echoing the atteiqpt. Those caught: in the middle, hevev«r, suggest ch« choicea before bhen nay be quite so simple, Preslawnc Buch, September 11 eana as a. revelation, leading hia Co the startled conclusion that the globe had changed ia waye gravaly hazardous to the Becvxity -- Indeed, tho v«ry wirviral --at the molted States. Thie eouolusion Boon, led Bush to a fateful deeiaiotn i

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> From: Saunders, Lisa > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:00 PM > To: O'Neal, Daniel L > Subject: FW: FW: Madeline Albright > > > Daniel, > > Have you translated the La Monde article attached? > If not, please do > so. I'm having it bates stamped today so it should > be ready by tomorrow > on the L:/ If you have please send a copy to me and > Mike's attention. > Thanks so much Daniel. I'll be gone tomorrow and > Friday so this is > probably the last s.ide project until Mon ;) ! ! ! > > ----- Original Message ----> From: Eisner, Mike > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:40 PM > To: Saunders, Lisa > Subject: FW: FW: Madeline Albright > > > Can you have Daniel translate the Le Monde article > if he has not already > done so. Thanks > > ----- Original Massage — • --> From: jc brisard [mailto:jcbrisardSyahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 7:11 AM

> To: Eisner, Mike; Davis, Ben; Moreland, Linda W. > Subject: Re: FW: Madeline Albright > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Mike, Attached is the French intel memo from PBS. I have another one, quite similar, from the same source, that I provided to you earlier. I can forward it again if needed. The 400 French parliamentary report has also been provided to you in original at the very beginning of the case. Its a report of the National Assembly money laundering committee which published in appendix my own report to the French intel on Osama Bin Laden financial networks. I can also forward this doc. Finally, the Yeslam point appears in my report and also in my book (first original edition). Yeslam later said he paid the courses for a former French policeman

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issued. I also attached the French daily Le Monde dealing with this.. Best Regards, JCB

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"Eisner, Mike" <melsnerQraotleyrice.com> wrote: > Jean Charles on page 4 of the attached article there > is a reference to a > 400 page parliamentary report. On page 5 there ia a reference to a 3

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Subject: FW: Prince Sultan's visit to Albright Nov. 3rd, 1999 Please file under Albright and Sultan. ---- Original Message ----From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:48 PM To: Modey, Ronald L; [email protected]; Migllori, Don; Flowers, Jodi; Eisner, Mike; [email protected]; Thompson, Jeff; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Prince Sultan's visit to Albright Nov. 3rd, 1999

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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION November 5, 1999

SAUDI EMBASSY DENIES 'EARLY END' TO PRINCE SULTAN'S VISIT The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington DC yesterday issued the following clarification: In view of Inaccurate reports disseminated by some news agencies that Second Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector-General Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz cut short his official visit to the United States, the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington DC would like to make it clear that Prince Sultan completed all scheduled meetings during his official visit to Washington DC from 1st to 4th of November. His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz met with Secretary of State Albright on Wednesday November 3rd Instead of Friday November 5th at the White House before his meeting with President Clinton. The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia would like to clarify this to all news agencies." - end -

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE Daily Press Briefing 1:20 P.M., 08 July 1999 Briefer: James B. Folcy TRANSCRIPT: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING (begin transcript) Foley: Good afternoon. Welcome to the State Department briefing. Q: Is the Secretary going to Singapore? Folcy: I don't think that has been decided yet. As you know, the Secretary is away on vacation now, and I expect that Mr. Rubin will be in a position to talk in detail about her travel plans. We've indicated that she's likely to make a visit to the Middle East in the near future, to be determined, in consultation with the parties, including during Prime Minister Barak's visit here, now set for the 15th of July. But in terms of her specific travel plans for the latter half of July, I think we'll have to await Mr. Rubin's return on Monday. Q: So you're saying - and we'll report it if we have it right - so let me try again. Secretary Albright hasn't decided yet whether to go to the ASEAN — Foley: Well, I can check that for you. Q: Could you, because everybody out there is ready. Folcy: What do you mean out there? »•

Q: Well, Singapore, they think she's coming. And if you think we ought to tell them that she doesn't know if she's going there yet, we will. Foley: Well, I know that you are quick to draw such conclusions, but Q: I'm not drawing conclusions. You said something, and I'm simply repeating it. Rather than leaving the room with what you said, I'm asking you to take another swing at it if I heard you right.

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