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...terrorist attack on the heart of the global financial system. Some politicians have gone so far as to use the attacks to discredit the movement. Clare Short, Britain's Secretary of State for International Development, told the Times: "Their demands turned out to be very similar to those of bin Laden's network...
When it turned out that as many as 15 of the 19 suspected hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, alarm bells rang in Washington and Riyadh. Although Osama bin Laden himself is a Saudi - or, was, until the government stripped him of his nationality in 1994 - the Kingdom has never been seen as a breeding ground for terrorists...
...officials say that it is unfair to blame the country for fomenting terror simply because some of the hijackers were born and raised in the Kingdom. There is some truth in that. Saudi intelligence officials tell TIME that no more than 50 Saudis are thought to be allied with bin Laden in Afghanistan and that his al-Qaeda network in the Kingdom is very small...
...officials and many Saudis, Sept. 11 has focused fresh attention on an even more serious, if less immediate and obvious, concern: the Kingdom's rapidly growing pool of disaffected high-school and university graduates. The fear is that if they are not with bin Laden now, they might turn to him as a role model in the future...
...Even before Sept. 11, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, the Kingdom's de facto ruler, had undertaken a major effort to attract foreign investment and create new jobs. The Kingdom is now also revamping its school curriculum to churn out more scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs rather than religious scholars...