Former Saudi charity head to sue Rice in U.S. court (Reuters)

Former Saudi charity head to sue Rice in U.S. court

Sat May 14, 2005 02:50 PM ET

By Dominic Evans

RIYADH (Reuters) - The former head of Saudi Arabia's Al-Haramain charity said on Saturday he was filing a lawsuit in the United States against senior officials including Condoleezza Rice for putting him on a U.N. terrorist blacklist.

Saudi Arabia shut down Al-Haramain Foundation last October, four months after Aqil al-Aqil's name was placed on the U.N. list of suspects linked to al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, former rulers of Afghanistan, after a U.S. request.

Washington said the charity's international branches provided "financial, material and logistical" support to Saudi-born bin Laden's network, a charge Aqil repeatedly denied.

"Since my opponent is the American administration, which is working on the principle of 'guilty until proven innocent', then the way to clear my name is through the American judiciary," Aqil said in a statement. "... I have decided to file a case against the American
government in the federal court in Washington DC.

(More at link above)

them. I wish all people who are on no-fly lists and the like would sue - and inform international media.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

Sounds like another client for Baker & Botts.

Yeah, Cell Block K: The Kindasleezy Rice Bowl, where the most hardened criminals -- those without a clue -- are locked up for the betterment of us all.

When you pay for building or buying a mosque, you get to pick the imam.

from the article:

The organization, founded in the early 1990s, used to raise around $50 million a year, making it one of the largest Saudi charities. It mixed international relief work with programs to promote Saudi Arabia's austere Wahhabi Islam.

It said it provided assistance and food to Muslims in East Africa, the Balkans, Chechnya and several Asian countries. It also built 1,300 mosques, sponsored 3,000 preachers and produced 20 million religious pamphlets, Al-Haramain officials said.

Building churches, sponsoring pastors and printing religious pamphlets are no terrorist actions... or half of the US would be terrorist *g*

And if I remember correctly some right-wing US citizens mixed relief work with programs to promote some kind of "Christianity" quite heavily after the Tsunami...

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

WOW.
I never knew.
I guess it IS a CRUSADE after all.

some of those mosques in east africa, and they're lovely, but the truth is that hospitals would be more useful as there are plenty of mosques already.

as far as I've been informed a lot of US citizens can't afford the US hospitals...


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

Especially one run by CHABAD.

about any new and ostentatious place of worship in a developing country.

We can never see the hypocrisy of it all.

Condi is going to be getting the smackdown. If there's one power on this earth you can't f*** with in America, it's the Saudi Royal Family.