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> A new ABCNEWS translation of the Osama bin Laden videotape released > last week reveals information that may be embarrassing to Saudi > Arabia, a very important U.S. ally. Bin Laden Hunt Strains U.S-Saudi > Relations Excerpts of the Bin Laden Video Weigh In Poll: Americans > Believe Toughest Battles Ahead > > When the videotape of Osama bin Laden talking about the Sept. 11 > terror attacks was released by the United States government on Dec. > 13, administration officials spoke at length about the extensive > effort to achieve a full and accurate transcript. > > The translation commissioned by ABCNEWS, however, reveals new elements > that raise questions about what the government left out of the > official version and why. > > The new translation uncovers statements that could be embarrassing > to the government of Saudi Arabia, a very important U.S. ally. Bin > Laden's visitor, Khalid al Harbi, a Saudi dissident, claims that he > was smuggled into Afghanistan by a member of Saudi Arabia's religious > police. > > He also tells bin Laden that in Saudi Arabia, several prominent > clerics some with connections to the Saudi government made speeches > supporting the attacks on America. > > "Right at the time of the strike on America, he gave a very moving > speech, Sheikh Abdulah al Baraak," bin Laden said on the tape. "And he > deserves thanks for that." > > Sheikh al Baraak, to whom the visitor refers, is a professor at a > government university and a member of an influential council on > religious law. > > "It shows that bin Laden's support is not limited to the radical side > of Islam but also among the Saudi religious establishment," says Fawaz > Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern studies at Sarah Lawrence College. > "And that is bad news for Saudi Arabia." > > ..... US protecting foreign tyrants, but hey, gas is cheap, and it > only cost a spook, a marine's foot, a few thou newyorkers (and some > of them were traders ferchrissakes, like NYPD corpses they're divine > payback) and look at how the flag industry stimulated the economy > and enhanced trade with WTO-China Inc another great bunch of freedom > loving folks
