Britain Backs U.S. Action Against Saudi Dissident
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Britain on Wednesday backed a U.S. call to the United Nations to freeze the assets of a London-based Saudi dissident who Washington says has provided support for al Qaeda.
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LONDON -- Britain defended yester day its decision to award knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie after Muslims worldwide contended that honoring the author of "The Satanic Verses" was offensive to Islam.
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The United States said it has put a leading Saudi dissident and another national of the desert kingdom on its list of terrorist financiers and is asking the United Nations to sanction them as well.
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The Bush administration moved Tuesday to block the assets of two Saudi men accused of providing support to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, Adel Batterjee and Saad al-Faqih.
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Britain was powerless to respond to threats by Saudi Arabia that it would withdraw intelligence cooperation unless a corruption investigation into arms deals with BAE was halted, a lawyer for the Serious Fraud Office told the high court today
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Canadian Bill Sampson and four British men have been granted the right to sue Saudi officials. A British court issued the ruling this morning.
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A British judge on Thursday approved the extradition of an American accused of supplying al-Qaida operatives with money and military equipment.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah received a lavish welcome from Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday at the start of a state visit to Britain, though human rights protestors decried his presence.
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A London-based Saudi dissident who has been declared a &quot;specially designated global terrorist&quot; by the US is expected to have all his assets frozen today by the UN security council.
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The United States said Thursday it has raised with Saudi Arabia its arrest of an Internet blogger who aired anti-government views, with Washington insisting on freedom of expression.
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The Bush administration took action Tuesday to freeze financial accounts and assets of a naturalized British citizen for allegedly providing "material and logistical" support to al-Qaida and other terror groups.
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The United States on Tuesday froze  the assets of two Saudi nationals for allegedly providing  support to al Qaeda, and has asked the United Nations to take  similar action.
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Dubai - The Saudi Arabian branch of the al-Qaeda network on Tuesday claimed the killing of a British man in the Saudi capital Riyadh, in a statement published on an Islamist website.
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The Saudi Arabian branch of the Al-Qaeda network claimed the killing of a British man in the Saudi capital Riyadh, in a statement published on an Islamist website.
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A Muslim cleric wanted by the United States is to be tried in Britain first, the BBC reports. British prosecution of Abu Hamza al-Masri blocks US efforts to extradite him to face terrorism charges.
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Britain voiced relief Tuesday after the release of five members of a British embassy group held for nearly two weeks by a rebel group in a remote part of Ethiopia.Comment
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Saudi authorities reiterate their pledge to crush Islamic militants after an attack on the US consulate in Jeddah.