Arabia Saudita & World against Terrorism

The first of Agust of 2005 came to the power of Arabia Saudita The King Abdallah bin Abd Al-Aziz. Hehas donde a lot of changes to change the face of this country. The web page www.memri.org, "middle east media research institute. It analize what he changed in this few years. In the terrorism level, those are the changes that Abd Al-Aziz promoted to finnish with it:

• Punishing those involved in terrorism.
• If someone contacts with terrorists pay a fine of 1 million euros.
• In the past year, Saudi authorities broke terrorist cells, including one connected to Al-Qaeda who planned and undermine the Hajj pilgrims. Also they thwarted 180 attempts to carry out attacks inside Saudi Arabia, arrested more than 500 operators of Al-Qaeda, and progressed to eliminate sources of terrorist financing.
• In December 2007, the conference of National Security and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia called for an international ban on the use of Internet and other technological media to spread terrorism.

Aso he did campaign in student institutions against terrorism and extremists.

"In his address to the 63rd session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said that the nations of the world needed to work together to combat extremists who seek to "propagate notions of intolerance, exclusion, racism and hatred."

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA51909

By Jorge