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Feds Recommend Closing Saudi School in Virginia
[AP] Matthew Barakat - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom report leveled particular criticism at the Islamic Saudi Academy, a private school serving nearly 1,000 students in northern Virginia. The commission said the academy hews closely to the curriculum used at Saudi schools, which they criticize for promoting hatred of and intolerance against Jews, Christians and Shiite Muslims. The report recommends that the State Department prevail on the Saudi government to shut the school down until the school's textbooks can be reviewed and procedures are put in place to ensure the school's independence from the Saudi Embassy. The school found itself in the spotlight in 2005, when a former class valedictorian, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, was charged with joining al-Qaeda while attending college in Saudi Arabia and plotting to assassinate President Bush.