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Article: Saudi official: Relationship with United States 'at its best'; Risk: Bush administration says bombing campaign needs to continue
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2001
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Bush administration officials said Monday that
even at the risk of inflaming Muslim anger, the United States must
press on with its bombing campaign in Afghanistan against the
terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center.
Officials in Saudi Arabia, a key if reluctant member of the U.S.-
organized anti-terror coalition, rejected accusations by Americans,
including Sen. John McCain, that they are doing too little to help
the United States in its campaign.
The U.S.-Saudi relationship "is at its best, and the United
States has shown great understanding for the Saudi position," the
Saudis' interior minister, Prince Nayef, told reporters Monday at a
meeting of Gulf officials ...