Transcript of BBC World Service Phone-in
Peter Howarth Lees: An American was killed
in Khobar two years ago. An American couple were attacked—a
bomb was placed on their vehicle one week after Simon was killed
in June. A German national was killed in September. So this is
simply not true that it's just against British, it's against western
nationals. There are terrorists operating in.. (cut off)
Interviewer: Let the Ambassador get a word
in.
HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud: What
I'm saying to you is that the people who were held for these cases
have confessed to their crimes, Now may have an issue with that..
Peter Howarth Lees: They were tortured into..
(cut off)
Interviewer: They were tortured, Peter says
HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud: They
were tortured and there was a complaint about it and that complaint
would have been investigated and the torturer would have been
punished because it is against the law to torture people there.
So, it is not just an issue of or a matter of you telling me that
it is against all of the westerners. It is not. But I will agree
with you on one thing We are as much concerned about the issue
of the security and of the safety of residents of the Kingdom
as you are and we would go out of our way to try to find the root
cause of this problem without any smokescreen putting on our eyes.
And the fact that we are doing all our best and cooperating with
your government as you know we've had visitors from your security
forces to the Kingdom to help us in trying to reach a conclusive
termination of this issue.
Interviewer: We're going to have to leave
it there I'm afraid Ambassador Because we are out of time. That
is all we have time for Today so my thanks to my guest the Saudi
Ambassador here in London, Prince Turki Al Faisal and to everyone
who has taken part in this programme.
This is the full copy of the defence papers
the Saudi lawyers put together in July 2002 and handed it in,
it was translated from Arabic. . . I obtained this from Canada
and the FCO were furious they said I was not to see it, I then
shared it with the other families, the FCO had it already but
had no intention of telling anyone.
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