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| SAUDI ARABIA STATEMENT | |
 September 25, 2001  |
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Full text of Saudi Arabia's announcement that the kingdom has severed ties with Afghanistan's Taliban regime. |
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The kingdom of Saudi Arabia stood
with all of its ability beside the Afghani people while they were struggling
for their independence, which gave Afghanistan a special status in the
hearts of those who champion nations' rights of freedom and independence,
until Afghanistan regained its independence.
It is unfortunate to see that the Taliban have used that special status for Afghanistan not for building the ties of brotherhood and for building and development and enforcing the lofty aims which Islam represents, but has made its land a center for attracting, training and recruiting a number of gullible men from different lands, especially citizens of the kingdom, in order to carry out criminal acts that violate all faiths and creeds, besides continuing to reject handing over those criminals to justice. In spite of what happened and what is happening, the Taliban government is still continuing to use its land to harbor, arm and encourage those criminals in carrying out terrorist attacks that horrify those who live in peace and the innocent and spread terror and destruction in the world. (It) leads to defaming Islam and defaming Muslims' reputation in the
world. Since the Taliban have ignored all of the contacts and the attempts
by the kingdom to persuade them to stop harboring criminals and terrorists
and training them and inciting them and making its land a refuge and
haven for them, (since) it did not respond to all exerted efforts and
attempts in that concern, the last of which is the Pakistani President
Gen. Pervez Musharraf's |
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