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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 505 

To prohibit assistance to Saudi Arabia. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 1, 2005 

Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on 

Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 

Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 

the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To prohibit assistance to Saudi Arabia. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Prohibit Aid to Saudi 

5 Arabia Act of 2005’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds the following: 

8 (1) More than 50 percent of the funding for 

9 Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, comes 

10 from Saudi Arabia. 
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1 (2) In its June 2004 report entitled ‘‘Update on 

2 the Global Campaign Against Terrorist Financing’’, 

3 the Council on Foreign Relations reported that ‘‘We 

4 find it regrettable and unacceptable that since Sep5 tember 11, 2001, we know of not a single Saudi 

6 donor of funds to terrorist groups who has been 

7 publicly punished.’’. 

8 (3) Abu Zubaydah, an al Qaeda operative, ad9 mitted to his American interrogators that al Qaeda 

10 had struck a deal with the Saudi Royal Family to 

11 desist from violence in exchange for Saudi financing. 

12 (4) On May 29, 2004, Saudi security forces al13 lowed 16 kidnappers to escape at a residential com14 pound in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, after killing 16 

15 westerners. 

16 (5) Al Qaeda terrorists who kidnapped and 

17 killed American contractor Paul Johnson used offi18 cial police uniforms and vehicles received from sym19 pathetic Saudi police officials. 

20 (6) Saudi Arabia denied United States officials 

21 access to several suspects in the custody of the Gov22 ernment of Saudi Arabia, including a Saudi Arabian 

23 citizen in detention for months who had knowledge 

24 of extensive plans to inject poison gas in the New 

25 York City subway system. 
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1 (7) The Saudi Royal Family has provided cash 

2 payments in the amount of $5,333 to each family of 

3 ‘‘martyrs’’ killed while trying to murder Israelis. 

4 (8) Saudi Arabia is the center of Wahhabism, 

5 the ultra-purist, jihadist form of Islam followed by 

6 members of Al Qaeda. 

7 (9) In November 2004, 26 leading Saudi 

8 Wahhabi clerics publicly incited the Iraqi people to 

9 fight against United States Armed Forces in Iraq. 

10 (10) The Saudi Royal Family has wholly or 

11 partly funded 210 Islamic Centers, 1,500 mosques, 

12 202 colleges, and 2,000 schools in countries without 

13 Muslim majorities. 

14 (11) The United States Commission on Inter15 national Religious Freedom has reported that Saudi 

16 Arabian Government-funded textbooks used both in 

17 Saudi Arabia and also in North American Islamic 

18 schools and mosques have been found to encourage 

19 incitement to violence against non-Muslims. 

20 (12) Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al21 Harby, the terrorist who is linked to Osama bin 

22 Laden and the terrorist attacks against the United 

23 States that occurred on September 11, 2001, re24 turned to Saudi Arabia under an amnesty program 
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1 in June 2004, and remains in that country, a free 

2 man. 

3 (13) In March 2004, a group of Saudi reform4 ers calling for a constitutional monarchy were im5 prisoned and are still awaiting trial. 

6 (14) In September 2004, the Government of 

7 Saudi Arabia issued an edict banning most working 

8 Saudis from questioning the policies of the Saudi 

9 Arabian Government. 

10 (15) The Government of Saudi Arabia has 

11 sought to acquire nuclear weaponry from Pakistan. 

12 SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR SAUDI ARABIA. 

13 No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 

14 pursuant to an Act making appropriations for foreign op15 erations, export financing, and related programs may be 

16 obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance 

17 or reparations to Saudi Arabia. For purposes of the pre18 ceding sentence, the prohibition on obligations or expendi19 tures shall include direct loans, credits, insurance, and 

20 guarantees of the Export-Import Bank of the United 

21 States or its agents. 

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