Terror Meeting a Showcase for Saudi Efforts

[Rose Siding]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Delegates from the around the world will spend four days discussing ways to combat terrorism at a conference hosted by a country some in the West blame for exporting terrorism, even as Saudi Arabia sees itself as the victim of such violence.
...
The crown prince called for countries worldwide to create an international anti-terrorism center for quick information-sharing. He also told delegates the world cannot fight terrorism unless it fights three other global crimes linked to it - arms smuggling, drug smuggling and money laundering.
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Jamal Khashoggi, media adviser to Prince Turki, the Saudi ambassador to London, said the conference was "designed to be a showcase for Saudi efforts to counter terrorism."
"We want to put terrorism behind us and move forward by the actual fact that the war against terrorism has succeeded and telling the world we have done so," he added.
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In the last year, the report said, Saudi border guards have detained nearly 1 million people attempting to enter illegally into the kingdom and seized more than 10 tons of drugs and 2,000 weapons. Some 30,000 men were detained in the Yemeni border area in July 2004 alone, the report said. In all, 19,000 smuggling attempts were foiled and 8,000 smugglers arrested, it said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SAUDI_TERROR_CONFERENCE?SITE=TXDAM&TEMPLATE=NATIONALSECURITY.html&SECTION=HOME

Ironic that the same paper covers a report released this week by "Freedom House" (James Woolsey chairs the board of its parent org.)that concludes:

Anti-Jewish and anti-American propaganda published by the Saudi Arabian government has been on display at U.S. mosques, according to an American human rights group.

The publications – including some found in the largest mosque in the Dallas area – urge Muslims to hate Christians and Jews and to refuse service in "infidel" armies.

The preachings are in keeping with tenets of Wahhabi theology, the brand of Islam that prevails in Saudi Arabia.

A spokesman in the Saudi Embassy in Washington, Nail Al-Jubeir, said some of the materials cited may be obsolete and may not have been sent to America by the Saudi government. But he said the Saudis are investigating the claims made last week in a report by the Washington-based Freedom House.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/020505dnrelislamlit.533e8.html

[annabanana]

1. As the Saudi's put the screws to the "less connected" fundies....

the pressure cooker in that country will continue to expand.
Mene, Mene,....on the wall. How could this be any more dangerous?

[KittyWampus]

2. Saudi Terror Efforts Showcased? LOL! Article Title Is Kinda Funny

Edit to include- F*ck the Saudi Royals. They're funding terrorists. Maybe making a sincere effort to cut off money would be a START.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Terror experts to meet in bin Laden's birthplace

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5518202

RIYADH (Reuters) - A stone's throw from al Qaeda's last suicide bombing in Saudi Arabia, senior counter-terror
experts meet today for talks that Riyadh hopes will chart a global strategy to fight militants.

The rare gathering of security and intelligence officials from over 50 countries in the birthplace of Osama bin
Laden sends a message of support for Saudi Arabia, which is battling a 21-month wave of violence by bin Laden's
supporters.

The four-day conference will be held amid tight security at a hotel close to Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry, the
nerve centre of security services which militants targeted in a December 29 suicide bombing.

Saudi officials say the meeting, which also brings together U.N. and Interpol anti-terror experts, is more than
symbolic.

more

[hippiechick]

4. Cripes, all they have to do to stop terra

is turn the military-defense industry into a 503(b).

Once the profit motive's gone Bushco will back out REAL fast, and the companies they front for will stop selling weapons to smaller groups who disagree with each other, and the US will no longer be pissing off groups that disagree with us.

[emad]

5. MI5 chief at Saudi terror summit

BBC
MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller has flown to Saudi Arabia to join other intelligence chiefs from around the world at an anti-terrorism conference.

The four-day meeting is the first of its kind in the kingdom, which has been the target of Islamic militants.

Countries who were invited to send intelligence experts include Syria, Italy, the US, Kenya, Iran and Britain.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4238427.stm

[Rockerdem]

6. Sounds like an anti-crime meeting being held at the Gambino compound