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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017851)" |
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| 349 FEDERAL SUPPLEMENT, 2d SERIES |
| Saudi Royal family. Ashton Complaint |
| 1 261; Burnett Complaint 1 348. Plaintiffs |
| . Pain: |
| tions. Id. 15. In June 1998, King Fahd |
| sent Prince Turki to Kandahar to meet |
| allege Prince Turki facilitated money |
| with the Taliban and to relay the official |
| transfers from wealthy Saudis to the Tali- |
| Saudi request that Osama bin Laden be |
| ban and al Qaeda. Ashton Complaint |
| extradited to Saudi Arabia for trial. Id. |
| 1 259; Federal I 451. Additionally, the |
| 111. |
| The Taliban denied the Saudi re- |
| Federal Plaintiffs claim that, while Prince |
| quest and Saudi Arabia subsequently sus- |
| Turki was the head of DGI, Saudi Arabian |
| pended diplomatic relations with the Tali- |
| intelligence officers allegedly trained |
| ban in September 1998. Id. 113. Prince |
| member of the al Qaeda Spanish cell in |
| Turki denies facilitating money transfers |
| explosives and provided material support |
| to Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda, he denies |
| to two of the September 11 hijackers. |
| offering material assistance to Osama bin |
| Federal Complaint I449. The Federal |
| Laden, his representatives, or al Qaeda in |
| complaint also alleges that Prince Turki |
| return for their not attacking Saudi Ara- |
| made |
| personal contributions |
| to Saudi- |
| bia, he denies promising or providing oil or |
| financial assistance to the Taliban, and de- |
| based charities that he knew were spon- |
| nies ever hearing of the Syrian financier |
| sors of al Qaeda, including IIRO, MWL, |
| Mr. Zouaydi, with whom he is alleged to |
| WAMY, BIF, the Saudi High Commission, |
| have ties. Id. 11 14, 16, 17. |
| Saudi Joint Relief Committee for Kosovo |
| and Chechnya ("SJRC"), and Al Hara- |
| main. Federal Complaint 11 451-52. |
| [9] Prince Turki denies the allegations |
| against him in a declaration prepared in |
| concert with his motion to dismiss the D.C. |
| Burnett action. In reviewing this declara- |
| tion, the Court gives "great weight to any |
| extrinsic submissions made by the foreign |
| defendant[] regarding the scope of [his] |
| official responsibilities." Leutwyler, 184 |
| F.Supp.2d at 287 (internal quotation marks |
| omitted). Prince Turki explains that the |
| DGI "is involved in the collection and anal- |
| ysis of foreign intelligence and in carrying |
| out foreign operations." Decl. of HRH |
| Prince Turki 15, at HRH Prince Turki's |
| Motion to Dismiss Certain Consolidated |
| Complaints Ex. 1 (hereinafter "Prince |
| Turki Decl."). He was active in Saudi |
| Arabia's efforts to combat terrorism gen- |
| erally and the threat posed by Osama bin |
| Laden and al Qaeda specifically, and |
| served on a joint information-sharing com- |
| the Taliban were part of his official func- |
| 3. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| The Federal Plaintiffs claim that "[more |
| than any other factor, al Qaida's phenome- |
| nal growth and development into a sophis- |
| ticated global terrorist network were made |
| possible by the massive financial, logistical |
| and other support it received from the |
| Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, members of the |
| Saudi Royal family, and prominent mem- |
| bers of Saudi society." Federal Complaint |
| 1398. Further, the Federal Plaintiffs al- |
| lege September 11 was "a direct, intended |
| and foreseeable product of the Kingdom of |
| Saudi Arabia's participation in al Qaida's |
| jihadist campaign." Id. 1425. Specifical- |
| ly, the Kingdom allegedly maintained and |
| controlled several of the charities within al |
| Qaeda's infrastructure. Id. 1399. The |
| Federal Plaintiffs claim Saudi Arabia knew |
| the threat that these charities posed par- |
| ticularly to the United States, and did |
| nothing to stop it. Id. 11400-02. The |
| Kingdom allegedly used its relationship |
| with the Taliban to sustain al Qaeda in the |
| mid-1990s. Id. 11 403, 407. To the extent |
| the Federal Plaintiffs rely on actions by |
| members of the Saudi Royal family as |
| allegations against the Kingdom, they |
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