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| Sauds will call their citizens home if we're not nice |
| 2001-10-30 |
Saudi Arabia will tell its citizens to quit the United States if harassment against them continues, the Interior Minister was quoted as saying. "The Kingdom is working to put an end to this matter (harassment), and we hope it will end," Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said. "But if it continues, we would certainly tell our citizens to come home, or search for another place. But we hope it won't continue," he said. Scores of Saudi students, hospital patients and worker who returned to the Kingdom following the terror attacks have spoken of harassment, maltreatment and humiliation from both the US authorities and the public. The Interior Ministry meanwhile set up a hotline to answer queries from families of Saudis detained in United States. Prince Nayef also denied that Riyadh has arrested people linked to the terror attacks on New York and Washington. "The wicked flee when no man pursueth." Of course, it would be purely coincidental if all terrorist activity in the USA stopped when all the Arabians were out of the country. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |