August 02, 2003

THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: SAUDI BENEVOLENCE

        The Arab News explains: Saudi Arabia- caring, compassionate, misunderstood.

"...The failure to prevent Sept. 11 was domestic. But Congress could not put the blame on the government’s top employees or any of its organizations, so it chose to blame foreign countries. The reality that the committee sought not to admit is that Al-Qaeda is a highly developed organization, extremely secretive, and took advantage of the benevolence and naiveté of Saudis,(our emphasis) the freedoms of America and of Muslim youths looking for any war to soothe their depression, without a thought for the danger of what they are doing..."

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