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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 Com-
mittee 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Prohibit Aid to Saudi 
Arabia Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) More than 50 percent of the funding for 
Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, comes 
from Saudi Arabia.
(2) In its June 2004 report entitled ‘‘Update on 
the Global Campaign Against Terrorist Financing’’, 
the Council on Foreign Relations reported that ‘‘We 
find it regrettable and unacceptable that since Sep-
tember 11, 2001, we know of not a single Saudi 
donor of funds to terrorist groups who has been 
publicly punished.’’. 
(3) Abu Zubaydah, an al Qaeda operative, ad-
mitted to his American interrogators that al Qaeda 
had struck a deal with the Saudi Royal Family to 
desist from violence in exchange for Saudi financing. 
(4) On May 29, 2004, Saudi security forces al-
lowed 16 kidnappers to escape at a residential com-
pound in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, after killing 16 
westerners. 
(5) Al Qaeda terrorists who kidnapped and 
killed American contractor Paul Johnson used offi-
cial police uniforms and vehicles received from sym-
pathetic Saudi police officials. 
(6) Saudi Arabia denied United States officials 
access to several suspects in the custody of the Gov-
ernment of Saudi Arabia, including a Saudi Arabian 
citizen in detention for months who had knowledge 
of extensive plans to inject poison gas in the New 
York City subway system.
(7) The Saudi Royal Family has provided cash 
payments in the amount of $5,333 to each family of 
‘‘martyrs’’ killed while trying to murder Israelis. 
(8) Saudi Arabia is the center of Wahhabism, 
the ultra-purist, jihadist form of Islam followed by 
members of Al Qaeda. 
(9) In November 2004, 26 leading Saudi 
Wahhabi clerics publicly incited the Iraqi people to 
fight against United States Armed Forces in Iraq. 
(10) The Saudi Royal Family has wholly or 
partly funded 210 Islamic Centers, 1,500 mosques, 
202 colleges, and 2,000 schools in countries without 
Muslim majorities. 
(11) 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. 
(12) Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al- 
Harby, the terrorist who is linked to Osama bin 
Laden and the terrorist attacks against the United 
States that occurred on September 11, 2001, re-
turned to Saudi Arabia under an amnesty program
in June 2004, and remains in that country, a free 
man. 
(13) In March 2004, a group of Saudi reform-
ers calling for a constitutional monarchy were im-
prisoned and are still awaiting trial. 
(14) In September 2004, the Government of 
Saudi Arabia issued an edict banning most working 
Saudis from questioning the policies of the Saudi 
Arabian Government. 
(15) The Government of Saudi Arabia has 
sought to acquire nuclear weaponry from Pakistan. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR SAUDI ARABIA. 
No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
pursuant to an Act making appropriations for foreign op-
erations, export financing, and related programs may be 
obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance 
or reparations to Saudi Arabia. For purposes of the pre-
ceding sentence, the prohibition on obligations or expendi-
tures shall include direct loans, credits, insurance, and 
guarantees of the Export-Import Bank of the United 
States or its agents. 
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