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Saudi Prince: Critics of Kingdom Aiding Al Qaeda

HeadlineApr 28, 2004

Meanwhile Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister traveled to New York on Monday to criticize the US media for demonizing Saudi Arabia charging that critics of the kingdom are only aiding extremists who want to overthrow the monarch. In a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, Prince Saud Al-Faisal said “”It is ironic that those who most vociferously attack Saudi Arabia are unwittingly serving the purposes of al-Qaeda.” The prince cited by name several recent books on Saudi Arabia as problematic including Craig Unger’s “House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties” and Robert Baer’s “Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Its Soul for Saudi Crude.” He claimed the criticisms of Saudi Arabia in the books were “irresponsibly vicious.”

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