Date :9/13/01 11:24:19 AM
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SPA-1-GENERAL / ISLAM IS INNOCENT FROM THE CRIMINAL ACTS: SAYS PRINCE BANDAR

WASHINGTON, SEP 13, SPA -- PRINCE BANDAR BIN SULTAN BIN ABDULAZIZ, THE KINGDOM'S AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, STRESSED HERE ON THURSDAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA REFUSES THAT ANYONE HAS A TERRORISM CONNECTION TO BE BELONGED TO THE KINGDOM.

IN A PRESS STATEMENT TO THE SAUDI PRESS AGENCY (SPA), SAUDI TELEVISION, CNN AND CBS AMERICAN TELEVISION STATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO WHAT HAS BEEN CIRCULATED IN MASS MEDIA ON OSAMA BIN LADEN DESCRIBING HIM AS 'THE SAUDI', PRINCE BANDAR SAID THAT BIN LADEN'S SAUDI NATIONALITY HAD BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM HIM DUE TO HIS IRRESPONSIBLE ACTS.

PRINCE BANDAR EXPRESSED HOPE THAT MASS MEDIA AND POLITICIANS WILL NOT THROW ACCUSATIONS ARBITRARILY AGAINST MUSLIMS AND ISLAM AS ISLAM IS INNOCENT FROM WHOEVER COMMITTED THESE CRIMINAL ACTS WHICH VIOLATE OF ALL DEVINE RELIGIONS AND RELIGIOUS, MORAL AND HUMAN VALUES.--MORE


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