Attacking al-Qahtani in Riyadh was made in collaboration with FBI

The official at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington, Nael Jaber, said that the Saudi authorities used lists from the American FBI office to identify the persons of Sultan Jubran Sultan al-Qahtani, better known as Abu Zubeir al-Reimi, who was killed in a breaking in operation carried out by the Saudi security forces two days ago in Riyadh.

The Saudi ambassador in Washington Prince Bandar Bin Sultan said al-Qahtani was an official of the second rank in al-Qaida organization, stressing that his country is making efforts to fight "terrorism" and had started pursuing the executors of September 11 attacks even before the attacks took place.

Meantime, an American diplomat announced that there is close cooperation between the Saudi authorities and the FBI, noting the terrorism funding fighting unit which was formed recently in Riyadh jointly between Saudi Arabia and the USA.

In a session for the banking committee at the US Senate, the assistant for the US Secretary Of State for Economic Affairs commended Saudi Arabia redeployment of basic and necessary changes in its systems and that it had also "agreed to work closely with us in the framework of the joint work group on sources of terrorism funding," describing this decision as "important."

On the other hand, Prince Bandar said that the situation of the Iraqi people seems today better than before under the rule of the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, adding that "most countries backed the collapse of this regime and the only country in the world which was able to carry out this mission was the US." He described Saddam Hussein as "a cancer on the heart of the Iraqi people and on the whole Middle East region."