[Refomatted] US neglects to include Saudi responsibility in 'translati

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In <3.0.5.32.20011221064445.00795100 at sarin.com>, you write:

> A new ABCNEWS translation of the Osama bin Laden videotape released
> last week reveals information that may be embarrassing to Saudi
> Arabia, a very important U.S. ally. Bin Laden Hunt Strains U.S-Saudi
> Relations Excerpts of the Bin Laden Video Weigh In Poll: Americans
> Believe Toughest Battles Ahead
>
> When the videotape of Osama bin Laden talking about the Sept. 11
> terror attacks was released by the United States government on Dec.
> 13, administration officials spoke at length about the extensive
> effort to achieve a full and accurate transcript.
>
> The translation commissioned by ABCNEWS, however, reveals new elements
> that raise questions about what the government left out of the
> official version and why.
>
> The new translation uncovers statements that could be embarrassing
> to the government of Saudi Arabia, a very important U.S. ally. Bin
> Laden's visitor, Khalid al Harbi, a Saudi dissident, claims that he
> was smuggled into Afghanistan by a member of Saudi Arabia's religious
> police.
>
> He also tells bin Laden that in Saudi Arabia, several prominent
> clerics some with connections to the Saudi government made speeches
> supporting the attacks on America.
>
> "Right at the time of the strike on America, he gave a very moving
> speech, Sheikh Abdulah al Baraak," bin Laden said on the tape. "And he
> deserves thanks for that."
>
> Sheikh al Baraak, to whom the visitor refers, is a professor at a
> government university and a member of an influential council on
> religious law.
>
> "It shows that bin Laden's support is not limited to the radical side
> of Islam but also among the Saudi religious establishment," says Fawaz
> Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern studies at Sarah Lawrence College.
> "And that is bad news for Saudi Arabia."
>
> ..... US protecting foreign tyrants, but hey, gas is cheap, and it
> only cost a spook, a marine's foot, a few thou newyorkers (and some
> of them were traders ferchrissakes, like NYPD corpses they're divine
> payback) and look at how the flag industry stimulated the economy
> and enhanced trade with WTO-China Inc another great bunch of freedom
> loving folks