Prince Bandar to Head National Security Council

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3//Gulf News Online, United Arab Emirates Published: 16/10/2005, 00:00 (UAE)

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=187115



PRINCE BANDAR TO HEAD NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL

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Riyadh: Saudi Arabia, which has been battling a wave of Al Qaida terror, has set up a National Security Council headed by former longtime ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan.



King Abdullah issued a decree on Sunday "approving the bylaws of the National Security Council," and in a separate decree named Bandar its secretary general, the official SPA news agency reported.



Bandar, who is the son of Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, was Riyadh's ambassador in Washington for 22 years until last July.



Saudi Ambassador to London and former intelligence chief Prince Turki Al Faisal was nominated to succeed Bandar in the US capital.



Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, in his first television interview on Friday as monarch, had vowed to eliminate Al Qaida.

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bandie and jr puffed stoogies on of 9/13
at the WH


http://www.hillnews.com/news/051804/binladen.aspx
"Democrats suspect President Bush, who met privately with the Saudi Arabian ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, on the morning of Sept. 13, 2001, may have personally authorized the controversial flights, several of which took place when all other U.S. commercial air travel had been halted."

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