(FrontPageMagazine) Stephen Schwartz - relations with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia remain clouded by an undeniable reality: the conspiracy to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as well as other probable targets, was a product of Saudi society. Al-Qaeda is a product of, an embodiment of, indeed the quintessential expression of Wahhabism, the state ideology of the Saudi kingdom. Saudi Arabia refuses to accept responsibility for its subjects' involvement in terrorism and has failed to participate as a trustworthy partner with the U.S. in the antiterror coalition. Two years later, our government faces the same urgent task it faced on September 12, 2001: we must obtain a full and transparent accounting of the involvement of Saudi subjects and institutions in the horrors of September 11th, no matter how high such involvement may reach in Saudi society.
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