[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 72 (Wednesday, May 14, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H4093]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           SAUDI AMBASSADOR TO APPEAR ON ``HARDBALL'' TONIGHT

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Madam Speaker, tonight on the program 
``Hardball'' on MSNBC, Chris Matthews, who is a very expert 
interviewer, will be interviewing Prince Bandar, who is the Saudi 
Ambassador to the United States of America. I hope tonight Chris will 
ask him some of these questions that are very, very important that need 
to be answered for the American people. Here are a few of them:
  Why were 15 of the 19 hijackers that attacked us on 9/11 from Saudi 
Arabia?
  Why does the Saudi Government provide financial aid to families of 
suicide bombers?
  Why does the Saudi Government support Wahabi clerics and institutions 
that preach hate and call for suicide attacks against Christians and 
Jews? They are teaching these children in their schools with the help 
of the Saudi Government on a daily basis.
  According to a Royal Canadian Mounted Police report, through phony 
charities, huge sums of Saudi money are sent to terrorists; $1- to $2 
million a month went to al Qaeda.
  Why did the Saudi Embassy provide travel documents to Maha Marri, the 
wife of a terrorism suspect, and her five children so they could escape 
the United States even though a grand jury had demanded testimony from 
that lady and the FBI had confiscated her passport? They helped her 
leave the country.
  And why was Prince Bandar's wife, Princess Haifa, providing $130,000 
to a Saudi woman in Virginia, who in turn gave some of this money to a 
family who gave shelter to two of the September 11 hijackers?
  And how is it that 19 al Qaeda operatives who battled the Saudi 
police in a gunfight just days ago escaped?
  These are things that must be answered. Tonight Chris Matthews has 
the opportunity to put it right to the Saudi Ambassador. I hope he will 
do that.

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