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Rabu, 19 September 2007
Hamas: Decision is an act of war
A Hamas spokesperson on Wednesday called the security cabinet's decision to declare the Gaza Strip an enemy entity a comprehensive declaration of war, for which Israel would bear the consequences. The spokesman said Hamas would work to get international backing to prevent Israel from cutting off Gaza's water, electricity and fuel supply - a step it would now be able to take if it so chose and following legal examination.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also expressed anger over Israel's decision on Wednesday, condemning the plan as "an oppressive decision."
"This oppressive decision will only strengthen the chocking embargo imposed on 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip, increase their suffering and deepen their tragedy," Abbas' office said in a statement.
According to a government press release, Wednesday's unanimous decision determined:
"Hamas is a terrorist organization that has taken control of the Gaza Strip and turned it into hostile territory. This organization engages in hostile activity against the State of Israel and its citizens and bears responsibility for this activity.
"In light of the foregoing, it has been decided to adopt the recommendations that have been presented by the security establishment, including the continuation of military and counter-terrorist operations against the terrorist organizations.
"Additional sanctions will be placed on the Hamas regime in order to restrict the passage of various goods to the Gaza Strip and reduce the supply of fuel and electricity. Restrictions will also be placed on the movement of people to and from the Gaza Strip. The sanctions will be enacted following a legal examination, while taking into account both the humanitarian aspects relevant to the Gaza Strip and the intention to avoid a humanitarian crisis."
Following the decision, a UN official called the move problematic, telling Army Radio that since Gaza was still under Israeli occupation and Israel controlled all crossings in and out of the area, collective punishment of all Gaza residents would constitute a violation of international law.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak presented the plan to the cabinet on Wednesday morning. Barak reportedly told the cabinet that, at present, he favored cutting off electricity but not water to Gaza's 1.4 million residents.
Barak went on to say that he was not in favor of a large-scale military incursion into Gaza.
Meanwhile, however, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Tzahi Hanegbi told Army Radio on Wednesday that a ground incursion into Gaza was unavoidable.
In the meantime, Hanegbi said, there was no need to pamper them with fuel and electricity.
Cutting off electricity would be the most severe of the retaliatory measures Israel has taken recently against near-daily Kassam rocket fire from Gaza into the South. Israel hopes to force Hamas to stop the attacks because Israeli air strikes and land incursions against the rocket launchers have not been effective.
The crude rockets have killed 12 people in southern Israel in the past seven years, injured dozens more and badly disrupted daily life in the region.
Gaza's population, largely impoverished, is almost entirely dependent on Israel for the supply of electricity, water and fuel, and a cutoff would deepen their hardship. Since the Hamas takeover, Israel has closed crossings with Gaza almost entirely, allowing in only humanitarian aid.
Several ministers have expressed support for cutting off the supply of resources to the territory, but such action would draw international condemnation, and Olmert and the IDF are said to oppose it.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also expressed anger over Israel's decision on Wednesday, condemning the plan as "an oppressive decision."
"This oppressive decision will only strengthen the chocking embargo imposed on 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip, increase their suffering and deepen their tragedy," Abbas' office said in a statement.
According to a government press release, Wednesday's unanimous decision determined:
"Hamas is a terrorist organization that has taken control of the Gaza Strip and turned it into hostile territory. This organization engages in hostile activity against the State of Israel and its citizens and bears responsibility for this activity.
"In light of the foregoing, it has been decided to adopt the recommendations that have been presented by the security establishment, including the continuation of military and counter-terrorist operations against the terrorist organizations.
"Additional sanctions will be placed on the Hamas regime in order to restrict the passage of various goods to the Gaza Strip and reduce the supply of fuel and electricity. Restrictions will also be placed on the movement of people to and from the Gaza Strip. The sanctions will be enacted following a legal examination, while taking into account both the humanitarian aspects relevant to the Gaza Strip and the intention to avoid a humanitarian crisis."
Following the decision, a UN official called the move problematic, telling Army Radio that since Gaza was still under Israeli occupation and Israel controlled all crossings in and out of the area, collective punishment of all Gaza residents would constitute a violation of international law.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak presented the plan to the cabinet on Wednesday morning. Barak reportedly told the cabinet that, at present, he favored cutting off electricity but not water to Gaza's 1.4 million residents.
Barak went on to say that he was not in favor of a large-scale military incursion into Gaza.
Meanwhile, however, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Tzahi Hanegbi told Army Radio on Wednesday that a ground incursion into Gaza was unavoidable.
In the meantime, Hanegbi said, there was no need to pamper them with fuel and electricity.
Cutting off electricity would be the most severe of the retaliatory measures Israel has taken recently against near-daily Kassam rocket fire from Gaza into the South. Israel hopes to force Hamas to stop the attacks because Israeli air strikes and land incursions against the rocket launchers have not been effective.
The crude rockets have killed 12 people in southern Israel in the past seven years, injured dozens more and badly disrupted daily life in the region.
Gaza's population, largely impoverished, is almost entirely dependent on Israel for the supply of electricity, water and fuel, and a cutoff would deepen their hardship. Since the Hamas takeover, Israel has closed crossings with Gaza almost entirely, allowing in only humanitarian aid.
Several ministers have expressed support for cutting off the supply of resources to the territory, but such action would draw international condemnation, and Olmert and the IDF are said to oppose it.
Today's min-news lead-ins
Mailinfo Guysen Israel News - Wednesday 19 September 2007 Saudi Arabia has said that it will decline the invitation to the peace conference organized by Washington, if it is not assured of tangible results on the fundamental issues of the Israeli-Palestinian question. Egypt has adopted a similar position.
PM Ehud Olmert has made a request to the state committee for the participation in defense expenses for public service employees, to finance his legal expenses for his defense before the Winograd Commission.
The United States has said that it does not want the Syrian presence at the Middle East Peace Conference set for the fall in Washington. According to a White House source Syria is "a brutal and vicious regime, and a strategic ally of Iran", which also adheres to the "most primitive anti-semitic opinions".
The head of the Russian nuclear program, Sergey Kirienko, said on Tuesday that he saw no political reason likely to delay the construction of the Iranian nuclear plant. Russia will thus continue to help Iran complete its project as soon as the financial issues are settled.
According to a High Court decision given on Tuesday, the Interior Minister is authorized to strip the former MK Azmi Bishara of Israeli citizenship. Following this decision, organization Shurat Hadin has asked the Interior Minister to also remove citizenship from all MKs who visit Syria.
PM Ehud Olmert has made a request to the state committee for the participation in defense expenses for public service employees, to finance his legal expenses for his defense before the Winograd Commission.
The United States has said that it does not want the Syrian presence at the Middle East Peace Conference set for the fall in Washington. According to a White House source Syria is "a brutal and vicious regime, and a strategic ally of Iran", which also adheres to the "most primitive anti-semitic opinions".
The head of the Russian nuclear program, Sergey Kirienko, said on Tuesday that he saw no political reason likely to delay the construction of the Iranian nuclear plant. Russia will thus continue to help Iran complete its project as soon as the financial issues are settled.
According to a High Court decision given on Tuesday, the Interior Minister is authorized to strip the former MK Azmi Bishara of Israeli citizenship. Following this decision, organization Shurat Hadin has asked the Interior Minister to also remove citizenship from all MKs who visit Syria.
Extortion Continues!
The Palestinian Authority is demanding "far-reaching" concessions from Israel and the US as a precondition for attending the US-sponsored Middle East peace conference, PA officials in Ramallah said Tuesday. The officials told The Jerusalem Post that PA President Mahmoud Abbas would relay these demands to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during their meeting in Ramallah on Thursday.
This is the first time the PA has set conditions for attending the conference. The latest decision reflects the PA's increasing reluctance to participate under the current circumstances.
Among the concessions that Abbas has demanded are the release of hundreds of security prisoners from Israeli jails, the removal of dozens of IDF checkpoints in the West Bank, and a halt to the construction of the security barrier and of new houses in West Bank settlements.
According to the officials in Ramallah, Abbas will also demand millions of dollars to boost his Fatah-controlled PA security forces and to help build proper government institutions.
Earlier this week, the Post revealed that the PA was considering requesting the postponement of the peace conference.
On the eve of Rice's talks with Abbas, the officials reiterated this position, saying they saw no point in holding an international conference as long as the Palestinians and Israelis had not reached a "declaration of principles" on fundamental issues such as the status of Jerusalem, the borders of the proposed Palestinian state and the "right of return" for the refugees.
"We will inform Rice that the conference requires serious preparations - otherwise, it will fail and everything will explode in our faces," one official told the Post. "We only hope that Rice won't exert pressure on us to participate in the conference while we are still unprepared."
The official said Abbas would express his deep concern over remarks made by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier this week regarding the US-sponsored conference. Olmert was quoted as saying that the most he was hoping to achieve in Washington was a "joint statement," and not a declaration of principles. His remarks drew sharp criticism from Abbas's senior aides, who accused the prime minister of seeking to thwart the conference.
"Olmert is either unwilling or unable to reach an agreement over the core issues with the Palestinians due to his internal problems," said another PA official. "Olmert is politically very weak, and it's time to admit that he can't deliver. I don't even know why he has agreed to go to the conference."
Nimer Hammad, political adviser to Abbas, said it would be better for all if the US postponed the conference, which is scheduled for November. He said there was no reason for Abbas or any other Arab to attend as long as Israel was not prepared to reach a final-status agreement.•
This is the first time the PA has set conditions for attending the conference. The latest decision reflects the PA's increasing reluctance to participate under the current circumstances.
Among the concessions that Abbas has demanded are the release of hundreds of security prisoners from Israeli jails, the removal of dozens of IDF checkpoints in the West Bank, and a halt to the construction of the security barrier and of new houses in West Bank settlements.
According to the officials in Ramallah, Abbas will also demand millions of dollars to boost his Fatah-controlled PA security forces and to help build proper government institutions.
Earlier this week, the Post revealed that the PA was considering requesting the postponement of the peace conference.
On the eve of Rice's talks with Abbas, the officials reiterated this position, saying they saw no point in holding an international conference as long as the Palestinians and Israelis had not reached a "declaration of principles" on fundamental issues such as the status of Jerusalem, the borders of the proposed Palestinian state and the "right of return" for the refugees.
"We will inform Rice that the conference requires serious preparations - otherwise, it will fail and everything will explode in our faces," one official told the Post. "We only hope that Rice won't exert pressure on us to participate in the conference while we are still unprepared."
The official said Abbas would express his deep concern over remarks made by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier this week regarding the US-sponsored conference. Olmert was quoted as saying that the most he was hoping to achieve in Washington was a "joint statement," and not a declaration of principles. His remarks drew sharp criticism from Abbas's senior aides, who accused the prime minister of seeking to thwart the conference.
"Olmert is either unwilling or unable to reach an agreement over the core issues with the Palestinians due to his internal problems," said another PA official. "Olmert is politically very weak, and it's time to admit that he can't deliver. I don't even know why he has agreed to go to the conference."
Nimer Hammad, political adviser to Abbas, said it would be better for all if the US postponed the conference, which is scheduled for November. He said there was no reason for Abbas or any other Arab to attend as long as Israel was not prepared to reach a final-status agreement.•
Iraq Journal Anbar Awakens, Part II
Combat operations are finished in Ramadi. The American military now acts as a peacekeeping force to protect the city from those who recently lost it and wish to return. It is not, however, completely secured yet.
"Al Qaeda lost their capital," Maj. Lee Peters said, "and the one city that was called the worst in the world. It was their Stalingrad. And they want to come back."
Click here to visit Michael J. Totten's Web site.
In July and again in August they did try to retake it and lost pitched battles on the shores of Lake Habbaniya and Donkey Island just on the outskirts. They destroyed a bridge over the Euphrates River leading into the city with a dump truck bomb.
Four other bridges in Anbar province also were destroyed in acts of revenge in the countryside by those who no longer have refuge in cities. And just last week Sheik Sattar Abu Risha, the leader of the indigenous Anbar Salvation Council that declared Al Qaeda the enemy, was assassinated by a roadside bomb near his house.
That murder can’t undo the changes in the hearts and minds of the locals. If anything, assassinating a well-respected leader who is widely seen as a savior will only further harden Anbaris against the rough men who would rule them.
"All the tribes agreed to fight Al Qaeda until the last child in Anbar," the sheik’s brother Ahmed told a Reuters reporter.
Whether Anbar province is freshly christened pro-American ground or whether the newly founded Iraqi-American alliance is merely temporary and tactical is hard to say. Whatever the case, the region is no longer a breeding ground for violent anti-American and anti-Iraqi forces.
When the Army soldiers at Blue Diamond took me on their missions I could see why so many reporters write off Ramadi as a place where nothing happens: I was sent along in a convoy of Humvees to the outskirts of the city in a palm grove to attend an adult literacy class for women.
The class was canceled at the last minute, though, so our trip to the palm grove actually was pointless. But Iraqis descended on us from their countryside houses and kept us busy, happily socializing for hours.
Click here to read Anbar Awakens, Part I.
Experiences such as this are typical for the infantrymen of the U.S. military but extraordinary for a civilian like me who isn’t accustomed to casually hanging out with Arabs in Iraq’s notorious Sunni Triangle.
I was greeted by friendly Iraqis on the streets of Baghdad every day, but the atmosphere in Ramadi was different. I am not exaggerating when I describe their attitude toward Americans as euphoric.
Grown Iraqi men hugged American soldiers and Marines.
Young men wanted me to take their pictures with their arms around American soldiers and Marines. The Americans seemed slightly bored with the idea, but the Iraqis were enthusiastic.
Children hugged State Department civilian reconstruction team leader Donna Carter.
Ramadi has changed so drastically from the terrorist-infested pit that it was as recently as April 2007 that I could hardly believe what I saw. The sheer joy on the faces of these Iraqis was unmistakable. They weren’t sullen in the least, and it was pretty obvious that they were not just pretending to be friendly or going through the hospitality motions.
"It was nothing we did," said Marine Lt. Col. Drew Crane who was visiting for the day from Fallujah. "The people here just couldn’t take it anymore."
What he said next surprised me even more than what I was seeing.
"You know what I like most about this place?" he said.
"What’s that?" I said.
"We don’t need to wear body armor or helmets," he said.
I was poleaxed. Without even realizing it, I had taken off my body armor and helmet. I took my gear off as casually as I do when I take it off after returning to the safety of the base after patrolling. We were not in the safety of the base and the wire. We were safe because we were in Ramadi.
Click here to read the full report.
"Al Qaeda lost their capital," Maj. Lee Peters said, "and the one city that was called the worst in the world. It was their Stalingrad. And they want to come back."
Click here to visit Michael J. Totten's Web site.
In July and again in August they did try to retake it and lost pitched battles on the shores of Lake Habbaniya and Donkey Island just on the outskirts. They destroyed a bridge over the Euphrates River leading into the city with a dump truck bomb.
Four other bridges in Anbar province also were destroyed in acts of revenge in the countryside by those who no longer have refuge in cities. And just last week Sheik Sattar Abu Risha, the leader of the indigenous Anbar Salvation Council that declared Al Qaeda the enemy, was assassinated by a roadside bomb near his house.
That murder can’t undo the changes in the hearts and minds of the locals. If anything, assassinating a well-respected leader who is widely seen as a savior will only further harden Anbaris against the rough men who would rule them.
"All the tribes agreed to fight Al Qaeda until the last child in Anbar," the sheik’s brother Ahmed told a Reuters reporter.
Whether Anbar province is freshly christened pro-American ground or whether the newly founded Iraqi-American alliance is merely temporary and tactical is hard to say. Whatever the case, the region is no longer a breeding ground for violent anti-American and anti-Iraqi forces.
When the Army soldiers at Blue Diamond took me on their missions I could see why so many reporters write off Ramadi as a place where nothing happens: I was sent along in a convoy of Humvees to the outskirts of the city in a palm grove to attend an adult literacy class for women.
The class was canceled at the last minute, though, so our trip to the palm grove actually was pointless. But Iraqis descended on us from their countryside houses and kept us busy, happily socializing for hours.
Click here to read Anbar Awakens, Part I.
Experiences such as this are typical for the infantrymen of the U.S. military but extraordinary for a civilian like me who isn’t accustomed to casually hanging out with Arabs in Iraq’s notorious Sunni Triangle.
I was greeted by friendly Iraqis on the streets of Baghdad every day, but the atmosphere in Ramadi was different. I am not exaggerating when I describe their attitude toward Americans as euphoric.
Grown Iraqi men hugged American soldiers and Marines.
Young men wanted me to take their pictures with their arms around American soldiers and Marines. The Americans seemed slightly bored with the idea, but the Iraqis were enthusiastic.
Children hugged State Department civilian reconstruction team leader Donna Carter.
Ramadi has changed so drastically from the terrorist-infested pit that it was as recently as April 2007 that I could hardly believe what I saw. The sheer joy on the faces of these Iraqis was unmistakable. They weren’t sullen in the least, and it was pretty obvious that they were not just pretending to be friendly or going through the hospitality motions.
"It was nothing we did," said Marine Lt. Col. Drew Crane who was visiting for the day from Fallujah. "The people here just couldn’t take it anymore."
What he said next surprised me even more than what I was seeing.
"You know what I like most about this place?" he said.
"What’s that?" I said.
"We don’t need to wear body armor or helmets," he said.
I was poleaxed. Without even realizing it, I had taken off my body armor and helmet. I took my gear off as casually as I do when I take it off after returning to the safety of the base after patrolling. We were not in the safety of the base and the wire. We were safe because we were in Ramadi.
Click here to read the full report.
'Terror leader escaped notice for over two years'
BEIRUT: The mastermind of the terror cell uncovered by the Internal Security Forces (ISF), Mohammed Rashid Ammar, was known as a glass merchant who hid the true nature of his activities for more than two years in the village of Anout in the predominantly Sunni Iqlim al-Kharroub area The ISF said it recovered weapons and explosives after raiding a house, a shop and a warehouse belonging to Ammar, including nine assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and canisters of liquid hydrogen used in manufacturing explosives.
A well informed source told The Daily Star Tuesday that trucks had been seen unloading shipments "every other day" at Ammar's property, what people assumed to be glass shipments. The ISF is testing the confiscated explosives to check if the type and batch match those used in other terrorist attacks and assassinations that have taken place over the last three years in Lebanon, including the June assassination of Future Movement MP Walid Eido.
Security sources have not released the exact quantity of explosives recovered.
An unidentified Libyan man, netted in the raids over the weekend, is believed to be the technical expert who calibrated Katyusha rockets fired at northern Israel three months ago, the source added.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb
Two Katyushas fell near the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on June 17 this year, the first such breach of the cessation of hostilities since the summer 2006 war ended. No casualties were reported as one of the rockets hit a factory and the other struck a car.
The source said investigations are proceeding with the seven suspects detained in the raids, including four men arrested in Yareen, Ammar and the Libyan man. Security sources had released two names, Saeed M., from Mina in Tripoli, and Mohammad H. H., from the village of Katr Maya in Iqlim al-Kharroub.
Judicial sources said army intelligence would continue interrogating the seven suspects for the next week to 10 days, especially since Investigating Magistrate Ghassan Oweidat will be traveling for the next week.
Local media reported that the cell had been active in carrying out attacks and planning for attacks in parts of South Lebanon patrolled by UNIFIL.
Following the conclusion of operations in Nahr al-Bared, authorities have clamped down hard on suspected terror cells throughout Lebanon, mostly using information gleaned from detained militants. The hunt continues for terror suspects and weapons caches.
A well informed source told The Daily Star Tuesday that trucks had been seen unloading shipments "every other day" at Ammar's property, what people assumed to be glass shipments. The ISF is testing the confiscated explosives to check if the type and batch match those used in other terrorist attacks and assassinations that have taken place over the last three years in Lebanon, including the June assassination of Future Movement MP Walid Eido.
Security sources have not released the exact quantity of explosives recovered.
An unidentified Libyan man, netted in the raids over the weekend, is believed to be the technical expert who calibrated Katyusha rockets fired at northern Israel three months ago, the source added.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb
Two Katyushas fell near the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on June 17 this year, the first such breach of the cessation of hostilities since the summer 2006 war ended. No casualties were reported as one of the rockets hit a factory and the other struck a car.
The source said investigations are proceeding with the seven suspects detained in the raids, including four men arrested in Yareen, Ammar and the Libyan man. Security sources had released two names, Saeed M., from Mina in Tripoli, and Mohammad H. H., from the village of Katr Maya in Iqlim al-Kharroub.
Judicial sources said army intelligence would continue interrogating the seven suspects for the next week to 10 days, especially since Investigating Magistrate Ghassan Oweidat will be traveling for the next week.
Local media reported that the cell had been active in carrying out attacks and planning for attacks in parts of South Lebanon patrolled by UNIFIL.
Following the conclusion of operations in Nahr al-Bared, authorities have clamped down hard on suspected terror cells throughout Lebanon, mostly using information gleaned from detained militants. The hunt continues for terror suspects and weapons caches.
Work on Security Wall Along Iraq Border to Begin Soon
Comment: Notice it is a security fence not an apartheid wall-no, it is not Israel-it is an Arab country. Double standard, but of course!Now use this information-please. JEDDAH, 18 September 2007 — Saudi Arabia will soon begin building a security wall along its border with Iraq, Interior Minister Prince Naif announced yesterday. The project is aimed at preventing the entry of terrorists and illegal aliens into the Kingdom and is estimated to cost SR4 billion.
“The contract for building the fence will be awarded soon, God willing,” the minister told reporters after meeting with the president of King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh.
In a previous statement, Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said tenders had been invited for building the barrier along the entire length of its 900-km desert border with Iraq.
The barrier is part of a package to secure the Kingdom’s 6,500 km of borders in an attempt to improve internal security and bolster its defenses against external threats.
Saudi Arabia is worried that the chaos in Iraq could cause an overspill of sectarian violence and terrorism. The Kingdom was successful in defeating Al-Qaeda militants in the country but wants to protect itself against insurgents from Iraq.
“The project will be carried out following the most modern international specifications,” Gen. Turki told Al-Riyadh Arabic daily.
The spokesman said the project would be totally or partially complete by the end of the next year. “The protection line will represent two rows of barbed wire equipped with the newest radar and infrared viewing devices,” he explained.
Five companies have been invited to offer bids. Among the companies are Saudi Binladin Group, Saudi Oger, Al-Saif Engineering and Construction Co. They have been given until Oct. 28 to submit their quotations.
Prince Naif said there was nothing new to announce about the deviant group. He was referring to Al-Qaeda militants blamed for a series of bombings and terrorist operations across the country since May 2003.
Prince Naif received Dr. Abdullah Al-Othman, president of KSU, and some of its deans and professors at his office yesterday to mark the signing of an agreement for establishing a chair at the university to conduct scientific research on intellectual security.
Prince Naif commended the university for promoting scientific research to meet the needs of society. Last April, the university announced plans to launch a major research and development program with the support of businessmen.
The agreement for setting up the chair, which is named after Prince Naif, was signed by Dr. Saaed Al-Harithy, adviser to the prince. The chair will begin its research work during this academic year (2007-8).
In a statement on the occasion, Al-Othman said his university would recruit highly qualified researchers from within the Kingdom and abroad in order to make use of their knowledge and expertise.
“The contract for building the fence will be awarded soon, God willing,” the minister told reporters after meeting with the president of King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh.
In a previous statement, Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said tenders had been invited for building the barrier along the entire length of its 900-km desert border with Iraq.
The barrier is part of a package to secure the Kingdom’s 6,500 km of borders in an attempt to improve internal security and bolster its defenses against external threats.
Saudi Arabia is worried that the chaos in Iraq could cause an overspill of sectarian violence and terrorism. The Kingdom was successful in defeating Al-Qaeda militants in the country but wants to protect itself against insurgents from Iraq.
“The project will be carried out following the most modern international specifications,” Gen. Turki told Al-Riyadh Arabic daily.
The spokesman said the project would be totally or partially complete by the end of the next year. “The protection line will represent two rows of barbed wire equipped with the newest radar and infrared viewing devices,” he explained.
Five companies have been invited to offer bids. Among the companies are Saudi Binladin Group, Saudi Oger, Al-Saif Engineering and Construction Co. They have been given until Oct. 28 to submit their quotations.
Prince Naif said there was nothing new to announce about the deviant group. He was referring to Al-Qaeda militants blamed for a series of bombings and terrorist operations across the country since May 2003.
Prince Naif received Dr. Abdullah Al-Othman, president of KSU, and some of its deans and professors at his office yesterday to mark the signing of an agreement for establishing a chair at the university to conduct scientific research on intellectual security.
Prince Naif commended the university for promoting scientific research to meet the needs of society. Last April, the university announced plans to launch a major research and development program with the support of businessmen.
The agreement for setting up the chair, which is named after Prince Naif, was signed by Dr. Saaed Al-Harithy, adviser to the prince. The chair will begin its research work during this academic year (2007-8).
In a statement on the occasion, Al-Othman said his university would recruit highly qualified researchers from within the Kingdom and abroad in order to make use of their knowledge and expertise.
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