Saudi Ambassador to UK: Terror attacks in Kingdom "serve the Zionism
interests"

Prince Turki Al-Faisal: Saudi Arabia is target of terrorism because of
World's largest Oil exporter and supporter of Muslim Causes
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Berlin, June 16, SPA -- Saudi Arabia is the target of international
terrorism because it is the World's largest Oil exporter and the major
supporter of Muslim World's issues, according to Prince Turki Al-Faisal,
Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

In a lecture, which he delivered in Berlin last night, Prince Turki
Al-Faisal said that killings and kidnappings are crimes and should be
countered, stressing that the Kingdom is one of the most stable countries
and the phenomena of terrorism will be annihilated because the Saudi people
are aware that terrorism is primarily directed against their country's
stability, and not against foreigners.

He pointed out that terrorism is not a strange phenomena since Germany
witnessed terrorist acts in 70s and 80s and no one had said at that time
that Germany was not stable.

He said that the national dialogue has concluded that these terrorist
attacks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "serve the Zionism interests."

On his part, Dieter Spranger, the former German Minister of Development and
International Cooperation said that the Kingdom is considered as a partner
of Germany in political, economic and scientific fields. --SPA 1515 Local
Time 1215 GMT