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A London-based Muslim cleric was arrested by anti-terrorist officers on Monday amid allegations that he urged Muslims to kill Jews and non-believers, police sources said. Abdullah el-Faisal, 38, was seized by Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch officers in a dawn raid at his home in east London on Monday. Born in Jamaica and a convert to Islam, he had been touring Britain urging followers to kill Jews and non-believers, police said. Members of parliament had called for action to be taken against the cleric after it was reported that video tapes carrying his message were on sale in Islamic bookshops in ...

WASHINGTON, AP -Saudi Arabia asked President Bush on Sunday to intervene in Israel's military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon to stop the mounting deaths, but administration officials said they remain convinced that an immediate cease-fire is not the answer. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said that during an Oval Office meeting with Bush, he gave the president a letter from Saudi King Abdullah asking that Bush help seek an immediate cease-fire in the Middle East conflict. The meeting came on the 12th day of fighting in which Israel has bombed south Beirut and other targets while Hezbollah has rained...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said he is less worried that U.S. policies in Iraq will bring on a civil war there, and pledged anew to contribute $1 billion for rebuilding that war-ravaged country's shattered infrastructure. "My fears are much more eased," Prince Saud al-Faisal said Sunday following meetings with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice said Saudi Arabia can do more to root out the sources of terror financing, but said the two countries were working together well. "The reason that countries or leaders are fighting terrorism is not to please us, not to please...

For many people the idea of a state that cares for every aspect of its citizens’ well-being is a highly desirable even utopian ideal. The rise of the “nanny state” in many Western countries was heralded as a triumph of political evolution. For me, this is a highly dangerous prospect. There are several reasons that lead me to this conclusion. Firstly, human beings are, on principle, fallible and corruptible, who will take any opportunity to abuse power when it is placed in their hands. A state which intervenes in the affairs of its citizens to serve their every need inevitably...

PARIS (Reuters) - The CIA rejected as fantasy claims in a new book that it tried to negotiate a non-aggression pact with Osama bin Laden just two months before the September 11, 2001 airliner attacks against the United States. Richard Labeviere, author of "The Corridors of Terror," released on Thursday, says the CIA's Dubai station chief approached bin Laden while the al Qaeda leader was being treated for a serious kidney complaint in the United Arab Emirates. He said the meeting took place in the American Hospital in Dubai on July 12, barely eight weeks before al Qaeda militants slammed...

<p>April 15, 2004 -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner has demanded the resignation of Jamie Gorelick as a member of the federal 9/11 Commission. Frankly, given her blatant conflicts of interest, she should never have been appointed in the first place.</p>

The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks may be about to implode amidst partisan recriminations and charges of conflict of interest, with the chairman House Judiciary Committee calling on one of the panel's leading members to resign. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., demanded on Wednesday that former Clinton administration deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick resign from the investigation, charging that she "has an inherent conflict of interest as the author of this memo and as a government official at the center of the events in question." The Gorelick memo, issued under the authority of the Justice Department in 1995,...

What 'serious moral goal' justified the murder of British Consul Roger Short in Turkey? For two years now, it's been apparent that increasing numbers of us are living in entirely self-created realities. For example, when I switched on the TV last Thursday, I saw US President George W. Bush being warmly received at Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad. By contrast, Wayne Madsen, coauthor of America's Nightmare: The Presidency Of George Bush II, saw a phony stunt that took place not at dinnertime but at the crack of dawn. "Our military men and women," he insisted, "were downing turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce,...

Gorelick Must Resign the 9/11 Commision Yesterday, I wrote about a number of “wise men” who have chosen to be members of law firms that accepted money to represent Saudi Arabia, Saudi individuals or interests in the law suit brought by the families of the 9/11 victims. Mark Kleiman wonders whose side such persons are on. With regard to James Baker, Mark asks: how hard is it to figure out that the former Secretary of State of the United States shouldn't be carrying water for the foreign power responsible for the largest massacre of Americans ever carried out? The same...

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, has urged the United States to "have a breather" in its invasion of Iraq and give the United Nations another chance to disarm the country peacefully. "Stop the war, let's sit down, let's have a breather after what we have seen of the destruction," Prince Saud told Western journalists in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. The 61-year-old prince also called on Saddam Hussein to "start to think of the sacrifices he can make for his country", implying that the Iraqi leader should seek exile rather than see his country destroyed. While Saudi...

Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal arrived in Tehran Saturday for a one-day visit and was welcomed at Mehrabad International Airport by his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharrazi. Speaking to reporters upon arrival, al-Faisal said that his visit is aimed at examining the stances of the two Islamic states on a wide range of issues. He added he was also carrying a written message from Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz for Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. "Ways of expanding the two countries' relations as well as Middle East issues, including those relating to Iraq and Palestine, will be discussed in meetings...

In today's WSJ, there was an article on page A12 entitled "Saudi Intelligence Veteran Warns Against a U.S. Invasion of Iraq." The article contained remarks from Prince Turki al-Faisal. He headed Saudi Arabia's external intelligence service for almost thirty years. Anyways, among the most interesting excerpt was this: "Prince Turki, who resigned from the Saudi intelligence service one month before the Sept. 11 attacks, said the Saudi monarchy had long believed Mr. Husseing could be ousted with an internal coup, U.S. air support, and diplomatic measures to keep neighbors such as Iran and Turkey out of the fray. But he...

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal arrived in Washington on Monday in what Arab diplomatic sources termed a surprise visit. The sources said Prince Saud's mission was to ensure that President George Bush pressure visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to agree to a fast-track diplomatic process that would result in a Palestinian state. But Sharon is also bringing to his meeting today with President Bush captured documents as purported evidence that the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry has paid millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers and to the terrorist group Hamas. "The Saudis wanted to cover...

Saturday January 26 11:03 AM ET Saudis Duped Into September Attacks - Saudi Prince PARIS (Reuters) - Saudi Arabians implicated in the September 11 attacks on the United States were unwitting victims of Saudi-born Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), Saudi Arabia's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Saturday. ``The Saudis who perpetrated the attacks of September 11 were betrayed themselves. You can see it in the second video cassette from bin Laden where you can see him laughing, Prince Saud al-Faisal told French newspaper Le Figaro in an interview. ``He dragged fellow countrymen into a suicide ...

Saudis Desperate for Russian Help 19 April 2002 Summary Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal traveled to Moscow April 18 to seek Russia's help in countering a belligerent U.S. agenda against Iraq. But Saudi Arabia has little to offer Russia and will likely leave empty-handed, so Riyadh will have few options left but to ally with rogue nations Iran and Iraq. Analysis Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal traveled to Moscow April 18 to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. The three talked about Iraq, the recent Saudi-proposed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and Moscow's...

Fifteen thousand feet high in Kashmir and armed with a Kalashnikov–that was not how friends thought Jibreel al-Amreekee would end up. All of 19, the restless kid from Atlanta had grown up in a wealthy family attending Ebenezer Baptist Church, the home pulpit of Martin Luther King Jr. A soft-spoken youth with long dreadlocks, al-Amreekee had a passion for sky diving and reading books on the world's religions. One religion that drew his interest was Islam, and while he was at North Carolina Central University, that interest grew into a calling. By 1997, he had converted and was spending his...

Arab NewsSAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=16198 Tourism festival off to a colorful startBy Yasser Rasheed, Arab News Staff Published on Friday, June 21, 2002 JEDDAH, 21 June — Makkah Governor Prince Abdul Majeed, who is also chairman of the Tourism Committee in Jeddah, inaugurated yesterday the activities of Jeddah Tourism Festival at the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium in the presence of thousands of visitors. Jeddah Governor Prince Mishaal ibn Majed, chairman of the executive committee of the festival, was also present. The inauguration kick-started a number of popular programs to mark the two-monthlong festival. Prince Abdul Majeed noted...