| CLOSE FOLLOW UP ON
INTERROGATIONS OF SAUDI CITIZENS - SAUDI AMBASSADOR
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| KUN0014 4 GEN 0355 KUWAIT /KUNA-TZB2
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| POL-US-ATTACKS-SAUDI
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| CLOSE FOLLOW UP ON INTERROGATIONS OF SAUDI CITIZENS - SAUDI
AMBASSADOR
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| RIYADH, SEPT 17 (KUNA) -- THE SAUDI AMBASSADOR TO THE US
PRINCE BANDAR BIN
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| SULTAN BIN ABDULAZIZ CONFIRMED ON MONDAY THAT THE SAUDI
EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON
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| IS CLOSELY FOLLOWING UP THE INTERROGATION OF SOME SAUDI
CITIZENS.
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| PRINCE BANDAR DENIED RUMORS OF KILLINGS AND VIOLENCE AGAINST
SAUDIS IN THE
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| US ADDING HE HAS SOME IDEA ABOUT MOTIVES BEHIND SUCH RUMORS.
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| IN STATEMENTS PUBLISHED HERE TODAY, THE SAUDI DIPLOMAT SAID
THE EMBASSY HAD
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| ASSIGNED LAWYERS TO DEFEND THE SAUDIS WHO WERE BEING
QUESTIONED AND IS CLOSELY
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| MONITORING THE SITUATION OF CITIZENS AND STUDENTS IN THE US
AFTER THE
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| TERRORIST ATTACKS.
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| HE DISCLOSED THAT MOST OF THE SAUDIS WHO HAD BEEN QUESTIONED
HAD BEEN
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| RELEASED WHILE OTHERS ARE STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION.
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| THE SAUDI EMBASSY PROVIDES SUITABLE AND SAFE RESIDENCE IN
SECURE HOTELS AND
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| ALSO HELPS THEM TRAVEL TO THE US OR BACK HOME FROM THE US, HE
ADDED.
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| PRINCE BANDAR AFFIRMED SENIOR SAUDI OFFICIALS ARE MONITORING
THE STATUS OF
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| SAUDIS IN THE US ADDING THE CULTURAL ATTACHE IN WASHINGTON IS
ON CONSTANT AND
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| DAILY CONTACT WITH STUDENTS IN ALL US STATES.
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| SAUDI CROWN PRINCE AND DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND HEAD OF THE
NATIONAL GUARD
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| PRINCE ABDALLAH BIN ABDUALAZIZ HAD PHONED US PRESIDENT GEORGE
W. BUSH LAST
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| THURSDAY CONCERNING THE INCIDENTS TO ASSERT ACTS OF TERRORISM
REPRESENT
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| NEITHER ARABS NOR MUSLIMS.
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| PRINCE BANDAR ASSURED ALL SAUDI CITIZENS WITH RELATIVES IN
THE US THAT
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| THEIR KIN ARE WELL AND SAFE AND CAUTIONED AGAINST RUMORS THAT
SPREAD CHAOS AND
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| COMMOTION.
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| SAUDI FOREIGN MINISTER PRINCE SAUD AL-FAISAL BIN ABD AL-AZIZ
HAD EARLIER
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| SAID THERE ARE NO SAUDIS AMONG THE MISSING BUT ADDED SOME
SAUDIS HAD BEEN
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| SUBJECTED TO ARRESTS, HARASSMENT, AND QUESTIONING AFTER THE
ATTACKS.
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| US PRESIDENT AND SENIOR BUSH ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS HAD IN
PUBLIC
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| OFFICIAL STATEMENTS ASSERTED THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON
WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK
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| ARE NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF ISLAM OR ARABS IN AND OUTSIDE US
SOIL AND WARNED
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| AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE INNOCENT BASED ON RELIGION
OR NATIONALITY.
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| (END)
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| ZZ.WSA
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| KUNA 171218 Sep 01NNNN
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