Saudi king vows to destroy Al Qaeda
Saudi King Abdullah vowed in his first television interview as monarch to eliminate Al Qaeda even if the battle took decades to win, condemning the terror network as "the work of the devil".
Abdullah also told US channel ABC in an interview due to be broadcast later on Friday that Riyadh would work to bring down oil prices whose rise he admitted had helped Saudi Arabia while damaging other countries.
The new king, who took over from late half-brother Fahd in April, insisted that Saudi Arabia was doing all it could to halt terror following the 9/11 attacks on the United States, in which most of the hijackers were Saudis.
He said that Saudi would "fight the terrorists and those who support them or condone their actions for 10, 20 or 30 years if we have to, until we eliminate this scourge".
Abdullah also told US channel ABC in an interview due to be broadcast later on Friday that Riyadh would work to bring down oil prices whose rise he admitted had helped Saudi Arabia while damaging other countries.
The new king, who took over from late half-brother Fahd in April, insisted that Saudi Arabia was doing all it could to halt terror following the 9/11 attacks on the United States, in which most of the hijackers were Saudis.
He said that Saudi would "fight the terrorists and those who support them or condone their actions for 10, 20 or 30 years if we have to, until we eliminate this scourge".
posted by Subrosa at Saturday, October 15, 2005
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