(4) According to the final report of the Na-
tional Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the 
United States, when asked where terrorist leaders 
would likely locate their bases, military officers and 
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, DC. 
(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-
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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-
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 
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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 
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. 
(14) An official website of the Saudi Arabian 
Government’s Supreme Commission for Tourism in-
cluded the following text: 
‘‘Visas will not be issued for the following 
groups of people: 
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‘‘An Israeli passport holder or a passport 
that has an Israeli arrival/departure stamp. 
‘‘Those who don’t abide by the Saudi tra-
ditions concerning appearance and behaviors. 
Those under the influence of alcohol will not be 
permitted into the Kingdom. 
‘‘There are certain regulations for pilgrims 
and you should contact the consulate for more 
information. 
‘‘Jewish People.’’. 
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 
are suspected of financing, supporting, plotting, 
or committing an act of terror against United 
States citizens anywhere in the world, including 
within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 
(B) permanently close all charities, schools, 
or other organizations or institutions in the 
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that fund, train, in-
cite, encourage, or in any other way aid and 
abet terrorism anywhere in the world (hereafter 
in this Act referred to as ‘‘Saudi-based terror 
organizations’’), including by means of pro-
viding support for the families of individuals 
who have committed acts of terrorism; 
(C) end funding or other support by the 
Government of Saudi Arabia for charities, 
schools, and any other organizations or institu-
tions outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that 
train, incite, encourage, or in any other way aid 
and abet terrorism anywhere in the world (here-
after in this Act referred to as ‘‘offshore terror 
organizations’’), including by means of pro-
viding support for the families of individuals 
who have committed acts of terrorism; and 
(D) block all funding from private Saudi 
citizens and entities to any Saudi-based terror 
organization or offshore terrorism organization; 
and 
(2) the President, in deciding whether to make 
the certification under section 4, should judge 
whether the Government of Saudi Arabia has contin-
ued and sufficiently expanded the efforts to combat 
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