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June 16, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://daily.nysun.com/Standard/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=NYS/2003/06/13&ID=Ar00103&Section=National

Saudis Refuse to Condemn Hamas

(New York Sun)- At a Washington news conference Thursday, called to claim that the Saudi government was cracking down on terrorism, Saudi Arabian official Adel Al-Jubeir, foreign affairs adviser to the crown prince, refused to condemn the terrorist group Hamas. He also said some Saudi money might go to institutions run by the "political wing of Hamas. That may be the case. I don't know. I'm not an expert." Al-Jubeir further defended the practice of providing aid to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Policy analyst Stephen Schwartz explained: "They control Hamas." Another critic of the Saudi government, Ali Al-Ahmed, who runs the Saudi Institute in Washington, said there is no doubt of the Saudi link to Hamas.

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