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To: Inspector Harry Callahan
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12 posted on 09/16/2001 5:52:45 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
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To: Inspector Harry Callahan
Terrorist's brother at banquet with Prince Charles

ANANOVA
February 2001, 2001

The Prince of Wales has dined at a Saudi Arabian banquet attended by the brother of the world's most wanted terrorist.

Bakar Bin Laden is the younger brother of Osama Bin Laden, head of an Islamic extremist group blamed for devastating attacks against the United States.

But there is no suggestion that Bakar Bin Laden has been in any way involved in any of his brother's activities.

Charles, on a three-day visit to the kingdom, was a guest of honour at a lavish ceremonial banquet held on Friday night at the Al-Faisaliah Centre in the capital Riyadh.

He sat alongside the host, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, the deputy ruler of Saudi Arabia, which Charles is visiting to open an exhibition of his paintings.

Several tables away was Bakar Bin Laden, who owns a construction empire in Saudi Arabia and is a prominent businessman.

The US accuses Osama Bin Laden of ordering the bombing of its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in August 1998 - attacks which killed 224 people.

Charles had previously been introduced to Bakar Bin Laden, when the exhibition of his paintings first opened in London in June last year. A source who was at the event, in Whitehall, said: "Prince Charles and Prince Khalid were standing there greeting guests when Bin Laden's turn came.

"Prince Khalid said to him: 'This is Mr Bin Laden' and Charles's eyebrows shot up. He said: 'Not THE Bin Laden?'

"Prince Khalid said, 'No, no it is his brother', and Prince Charles turned to him and shook his hand.

"Then in a bit of mischief, Prince Charles asked Bin Laden: 'What is your brother up to these days?'

"I have no idea what his answer was," the source said.

13 posted on 09/16/2001 6:17:49 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
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