government officials repeatedly listed Saudi Arabia 
as a prime location. 
(5) A report released on January 28, 2005 by 
Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom 
found that Saudi Arabia is the state most respon-
sible for the propagation of material promoting ha-
tred, intolerance, and violence within United States 
mosques and Islamic centers, and that these publica-
tions are often official publications of a Saudi min-
istry or distributed by the Embassy of Saudi Arabia 
in Washington, D.C. 
(6) During a July 2003 hearing on terrorism 
before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology 
and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Ju-
diciary of the Senate, David Aufhauser, General 
Counsel of the Treasury Department, stated that 
Saudi Arabia is, in many cases, the ‘‘epicenter’’ of 
financing for terrorism. 
(7) The New York Times, citing United States 
and Israeli sources, reported on September 17, 
2003, that at least 50 percent of the current oper-
ating budget of Hamas comes from ‘‘people in Saudi 
Arabia’’. 
(8) The Middle East Media Research Institute 
concluded in a July 3, 2003, report on Saudi sup-
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port for Palestinian terrorists that ‘‘for decades, the 
royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has 
been the main financial supporter of Palestinian 
groups fighting Israel’’. The report notes specifically 
that Saudi-sponsored organizations have funneled 
over $4,000,000,000 to finance the Palestinian 
intifada that began in September 2000. 
(9) A joint committee of the Select Committee 
on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence of the House of Rep-
resentatives issued a report on July 24, 2003, that 
quotes various United States Government personnel 
who complained that the Saudis refused to cooperate 
in the investigation of Osama bin Laden and his net-
work both before and after the September 11, 2001, 
terrorist attacks. 
(10) After the 1996 bombing of the Khobar 
Towers housing complex at Dahran, Saudi Arabia, 
which killed 19 United States Air Force personnel 
and wounded approximately 400 people, the Govern-
ment of Saudi Arabia refused to allow United States 
officials to question individuals held in detention by 
the Saudis in connection with the attack. 
(11) As recounted by counterterrorism officials 
in a September 2003 issue of Time Magazine, Saudi 
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Arabia denied United States officials access to sev-
eral suspects in the custody of the Government of 
Saudi Arabia, including a Saudi Arabian citizen in 
detention for months who had knowledge of exten-
sive plans to inject poison gas in the New York City 
subway system. 
(12) The United States Commission on Inter-
national Religious Freedom has reported that Saudi 
Arabian Government-funded textbooks used both in 
Saudi Arabia and also in North American Islamic 
schools and mosques have been found to encourage 
incitement to violence against non-Muslims. 
(13) There are indications that, since the May 
12, 2003, suicide bombings in Riyadh, the Govern-
ment of Saudi Arabia is making a more serious ef-
fort to combat terrorism. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) it is imperative that the Government of 
Saudi Arabia immediately and unconditionally— 
(A) provide complete, unrestricted, and un-
obstructed cooperation to the United States, in-
cluding the unsolicited sharing of relevant intel-
ligence in a consistent and timely fashion, in 
the investigation of groups and individuals that 
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