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	Prince Bandar Biography
		Prince Bandar was born in Saudi Arabia on March 2, 1949, at Taif, the summer capital of the Kingdom, the son of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation, and Inspector-General.
		Prince Bandar was appointed Ambassador to the United States by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud on September 27, 1983 and presented his credentials to President Ronald Reagan on October 24, 1983.
		Prince Bandar graduated from the British Royal Air Force College at Cranwell, England, in 1968 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF).
	www.saudiembassy.net /Country/Government/BandarBio.asp (546 words)

	Saudi-American Forum - The Prince - Saudi Arabia Relations Information
		Bandar, who is fifty-three and has been the Saudi Ambassador for twenty years, was accustomed to an unusually personal relationship with the White House; he was so close to the President's father, George H. Bush, that he was considered almost a member of the family.
		Bandar's father is Prince Sultan, one of the seven sons of Abdul Aziz, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, and his favorite wife, Hassa bint Ahmed al-Sudairi, who is perhaps the most revered woman in Saudi history.
		Sultan, who was in his early twenties at the time of Bandar's birth, had already held the position of governor of Riyadh.
	www.saudi-american-forum.org /Newsletters/SAF_Item_Of_Interest_2003_04_30.htm (7790 words)

	Bandar bin Sultan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bandar's father runs one of the largest such charities, which typically fund Wahhabist mosques and madrassas (2,000 in the United States), where children and youths are taught the strain of Islam that has fuelled al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
		Bandar, meanwhile, sees to it that the Saudi embassy provides "top-flight defence lawyers free of charge for any Saudi citizen detained as part of the Justice Department's crackdown on suspected terrorists," according to Newsweek last month.
		At Bandar's behest, his government arranged and paid for the airlift of the bin Laden clan from the United States to Saudi Arabia, a week after Osama was fingered in the World Trade Center attacks.
	www.emjournal.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /may03007.html (1048 words)

	Talk:Prince Bandar bin Sultan - SourceWatch
		Prince Bandar was appointed ambassador to the United States by his uncle, father-in-law, and mentor in 1983 at the age of 34.
		Prince Bandar's effectiveness has been attributed to his credibility with the Saudi Royal Family and to his cultural adaptability.
		Prince Bandar has exuberant charm; he is flashy, cunning and secretive.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Talk:Prince_Bandar_bin_Sultan (437 words)

	Saudi Arabia's influential ambassador to U.S. steps down / For 22 years, Prince Bandar bin Sultan was a key player in ...
		Bandar, a former air force pilot who came to the job with limited diplomatic experience, ended up as a central player in Washington politics.
		Bandar's father, the defense minister, is the leading candidate to become crown prince, although he is recovering from stomach cancer, U.S. officials say.
		Bandar, 56, who was the product of his father's liaison with a family slave, had a wily ability to blend Riyadh's wealth and Washington's power for a common end.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/21/MNGSJDR4521.DTL (815 words)

	Prince Bandar bin Sultan - SourceWatch
		Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia's "veteran ambassador to the United States, has resigned 'for private reasons,' the Saudi Foreign Ministry" said Wednesday, July 20, 2005.
		"Bandar, who served in Washington for more than 20 years and had close ties with several U.S. presidents, will be replaced by Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former intelligence chief who is currently ambassador to London," according to Reuters News Service.
		I serve America in the important dual role of longtime Bush family investor and official spokesman for the dictatorial Islamist monarchy that produced Osama bin Laden and fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Prince_Bandar_bin_Sultan (392 words)

	Saving the Saudis - Craig Unger
		Unbeknownst to Dan Grossi, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the 52-year-old Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, had been in Washington orchestrating the exodus of about 140 Saudis scattered throughout the country who were members of, or close to, two enormous families.
		Initially, Prince Bandar had hoped that early reports of the Saudi role in the attacks had been exaggerated - after all, al-Qaeda terrorist operatives were known to use false passports.
		The bin Ladens put $2 million in the Carlyle Partners II Fund, a relatively small sum that was said to be part of a larger package.
	www.wesjones.com /saudi1.htm (7346 words)

	frontline: looking for answers: saudi arabia
		Although bin Laden and his followers' primary obsession is ousting the U.S. from Saudia Arabia and other Islamic countries, they also want to topple the Saudi royal family, whom they accuse of corruption and of working against their own people and their Islamic faith.
		In this interview Prince Bandar argues that while U.S. policy in the Middle East has its flaws, it cannot be blamed for the atrocities of Sept. 11.
		Prince Bandar also speaks candidly about dissidents within his own country, about relations between Saudi Arabia and other governments in the Middle East, and about the role that Saudi Arabia may take in the fight against terrorism.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/terrorism/saudi (698 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Al-Fagih said that the son, Abdullah Osama bin Laden, who is in his early twenties and works for the family business, is one of some fifteen children that Osama has had with three or four wives.
		Prince Turki, Al-Fagih said, "made arrangements for Osama's mother and his stepfather to visit him and persuade him to stop what he was doing." When Al-Fagih was asked about bin Laden's response, he said, "He is very close to his mother, so he thought it was nice to see his mother.
		Bin Laden has cast himself as a messianic religious authority, but his degrees are in civil engineering and economics.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?011112fa_FACT3 (4300 words)

	Transcript for April 25 - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com
		PRINCE BANDAR: Not at all, because at that time, the options were either the United Nations solution will work and Saddam will respond to it, or that will mean serious consequences which definitely meant ultimately will be war. And you don't make plans the night before you go to war. It takes time to plan.
		PRINCE BANDAR: I don't talk about my conversations with the president or--but I believe that would have been the right way to go. There's no point of Monday-morning quarterbacking now. What we need now to do is to make things work.
		PRINCE BANDAR: Tim, if that was true, I think it would make a great movie, but it's not true. We terminated--Riggs Bank problem is a regulation problem that has nothing to do with Saudi Arabia. However, Riggs Bank and us came to mutual agreement to terminate our relationship.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4829855 (2960 words)

	Saudi Arabia: Prince Bandar bin Sultan
		Bandar knew that if Bush was unaware of views within the Arab world, he couldn't understand the impact that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was having in the region.
		Bandar was certain that Saddam would not forgive or forget his defeat in the Gulf War, and that any talk of compromise or containment was futile.
		Bandar replied that Saddam stayed in power because he was ruthless, and he also told Bush that even though many European and Arab countries were saying publicly that they opposed a military effort to topple Saddam, they were saying something else in private.
	www.saudi-us-relations.org /international-relations/prince-bandar.html (11720 words)

	Who let bin Ladens leave U.S.?=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The flight from Tampa to Lexington was one of several flights that Saudi Arabian citizens took in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, when the rest of the country was prohibited from flying.
		The New York Times has reported that bin Laden family members were driven or flown under FBI supervision to a secret meeting in Texas and then to Washington, from where they left the country when airports were allowed to open Sept. 14, 2001.
		Bin Laden’s family has long disassociated itself from Osama bin Laden, head of the al Qaeda terrorist network, which was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
	www.thehill.com /news/051804/binladen.aspx (962 words)

	Saudi Envoy Promised Bush a Drop in Oil Prices Ahead of Election
		Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, promised Bush that his country would lower oil prices before the November 2 presidential election, according to the author of a new book on the war in Iraq.
		Bandar learned of the attack plans on Jan. 11, 2003, two days before U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was told of the decision, according to Woodward.
		Bandar said he would take the message to the Saudi leadership if he got the same information he had just received directly from Bush.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0419-01.htm (737 words)

	A Diplomat's Call for War (washingtonpost.com)
		The Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, wrote a rather unusual article for last Tuesday's edition of the Saudi government daily newspaper Al-Watan.
		The British- and American-educated prince (he holds a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies) is a longtime friend of the Bush family and has easy access to the White House.
		His Excellency Crown Prince [Abdullah] has declared war on terror and on the terrorists, and he is right in doing so.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A17405-2004Jun5.html (1015 words)

	CNN.com - Bush tells Saudi no decision on Iraq - August 27, 2002
		The White House tried to put the focus on the positive, saying Bush and the prince agreed Saddam is a threat and that the president was able to make his case to Bandar.
		Bush and Bandar have been meeting on a regular basis, and Tuesday's visit was the prince's second to Bush's 1,600-acre ranch.
		During Tuesday's meeting with Bandar, Fleischer said Bush and the prince did not discuss the $1 trillion lawsuit filed by relatives of September 11 victims against banks, charities and individuals that the suit alleges have helped finance the al Qaeda terrorist network.
	www.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/27/bush.saudi.prince/index.html (1076 words)

	Tufts E-News -- Saudi Official Gives Rare News Conference At Tufts
		The Ambassador to the United States from Saudi Arabia, Prince Bandar told reporters that he supports U.S. troops in Iraq.
		“Prince Bandar, the longtime Saudi ambassador to Washington, said Thursday that the U.S. military presence should remain in Iraq for now,” reported the Associated Press, in a story that ran in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and London’s The Guardian.
		Prince Bandar praised the actions of President Bush in driving Saddam Hussein out of power, a revelation that came despite the fact that leaders of Saudi Arabia had previously spoken against the war in Iraq.
	enews.tufts.edu /stories/102403Bandar.htm (438 words)

	September 11, 2001 International Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz
		Attesting the innocence of Islam in these terrorist attacks, Prince Bandar expressed the hope that the mass media and the politicians will not arbitrarily throw out accusations against Muslims: whoever committed these criminal acts, which violate all divine religions and all religious, moral and human values, is not Muslim.
		As for oil, Prince Bandar gave assurances that Saudi Arabia, and all the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), are committed to keep prices stable and to meet all oil demands.
	www.patriotresource.com /wtc/intl/0913/saudi.html (517 words)

	Al-Assad receives Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Saudi role appreciated
		The meeting was attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Walid al-Muaallem.Before leaving Damascus, Prince Bandar bin Sultan expressed pleasure for visiting Syria, noting that Syria is his second country.
		The prince added that King Abdullah wanted to congratulate President Bashar al-Assad for his "wise and brave decision" taken two days ago to cooperate with the UN investigation into the murder of Lebaon's Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
		Bandar pointed out that the region is passing through a critical and sensitive stage so "all need to behave wisely and carefully." He noted that the letter he has delivered from King Abdullah to President al-Assad reflects the king's policy of consultations with other Arab leaders.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/051128/2005112802.html (309 words)

	Salon.com Books \| The great escape
		Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, had long been the most recognizable figure from his country in America.
		Widely known as the Arab Gatsby, with his trimmed goatee and tailored double-breasted suits, the 52-year-old Bandar was the very embodiment of the contradictions inherent in being a modern, jet-setting, Western-leaning member of the royal House of Saud.
		And when it came to embracing the culture of the infidel West, Bandar outdid even the most ardent admirers of Western civilization -- that was him patrolling the sidelines of Dallas Cowboys football games with his friend Jerry Jones, the team's owner.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2004/03/11/unger_1/index.html (326 words)

	Saudi Arabia (08/05)
		King Fahd's brother, Prince Sultan, the Minister of Defense and Aviation, became Second Deputy Prime Minister.
		Prince Sultan, Minister of Defense and Aviation, became Crown Prince and First Deputy Prime Minister.
		The kingdom is divided into 13 provinces governed by princes or close relatives of the royal family.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3584.htm (5065 words)

	Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Executive Policy Advisor to President Bush - Ask the White House - Submit Questions to Bush ...
		I am His Royal Highness Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
		Yes, the House of Saud is aware of the slanderous trash produced by the bloated pink swinebeast known as Michael Moore.
		Write that "Bandar Bush" is simply the name with which I have instructed the President to address the tiny minority of post-pubescent wives in my harem.
	www.whitehouse.org /ask/bandar.asp (1531 words)

	ipedia.com: Bandar bin Sultan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		and a personal friend to several US Presidents.]] His Royal Highness, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al Saud is a highly influencial Saudi politician and the current Saudi ambassador to the U...
		and a personal friend to several US Presidents.]] His Royal Highness, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al Saud (born March 2, 1949, Taif, Saudi Arabia) is a highly influencial Saudi politician and the current Saudi ambassador to the United States.
		Prince Bandar is a son of Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Second Deputy Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia.
	www.ipedia.com /bandar_bin_sultan.html (361 words)

	blog.mintruth.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry on Wednesday confirmed the resignation of Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, the kingdom’s long-serving ambassador to the United States, and his replacement by Prince Turki al-Feisal, the former spy chief who is now the Saudi envoy to Britain.
		The departure of the flamboyant Prince Bandar, for what the ministry described as “personal reasons,” comes at a time when tensions between the US and Saudi Arabia, provoked by the September 11 attacks, have started to ease.
		Prince Bandar has served in Washington for two decades and enjoyed unparalleled access to the American political establishment, including to the Bush family.
	www.mintruth.com /blog/index.php?cat=6 (9521 words)

	Freedom House: Saudi Publications on Hate Ideolgy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador, learned of GWB’s planed invasion of Iraq during the time the president was denying his intentions to his own people.
		Bin Baz was a government appointee who received a regular government salary, served at the pleasure of the King and presided over the Saudi Permanent Committee for Scientific Research and the Issuing of Fatwas, an office of the Saudi government.
		Bin Baz is famously remembered by many Saudis for a ruling he issued in 1966 declaring the world flat.
	www.prophetofdoom.net /freedomhouse_saudipublications.html (10309 words)

	President Bush's Crawford Summit With Saudi Arabia Ambassador Prince Bandar Bin Sultan - WHITEHOUSE.ORG
		PRINCE BANDAR: Never let it be said that your Christian whore is not civil.
		PRINCE BANDAR: My people have already sacrificed much in order to place your family in control of America.
		PRINCE BANDAR: Do not neglect to be generous with the Aloe Vera butter.
	www.whitehouse.org /news/2002/082902.asp (664 words)

	Glympton Park
		Is situated in Oxfordshire and is owned by the Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia with the approximate value of £90 million.
		When training as a pilot, Prince Bandar bin Sultan and the nephew to King Fadh of Saudi Arabia and long time Saudi ambassador to the US bought the estate in Oxfordshire.
		In 1992 the Prince bought the estate at its lowered price of £11 million, which Prince Bandar was said to spend £42 million in restoring the Glympton House.
	www.britain.tv /property_top_100homes_7.shtml (156 words)

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