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Kuwait Times 30-11-2017.Qxp Layout 1 Established 1961 11 News Thursday, November 30, 2017 Prince Miteb is the first senior figure known to be to be applauded for trying something different - they Saudi prince freed in released among those detained. Around 200 people in Militants go to were one of the first to try a ‘talking cure’ for terrorists,” total have been questioned in the crackdown, authori- John Horgan, another expert at Georgia State ties said earlier this month. The allegations, which University, told AFP. “(But) without greater transparency $1bn settlement include kickbacks, inflating government contracts, rehab at ‘5-star’... about its participants... it’s impossible to know what val- extortion and bribery, could not be independently veri- ue added, if any, this program brings in reducing the agreement fied. Saudi authorities, who estimate they could eventu- Continued from Page 1 threat of re-engagement in terrorism.” ally recover around $100 billion of illicit funds, have AFP was given a chance to interview “beneficiaries” RIYADH: Senior Saudi Arabian prince Miteb bin been working on reaching agreements with suspects king-size beds, all framed by manicured lawns. Many if they agreed, but when two bearded, gym-buffed men Abdullah, once seen as a leading contender to the detained at Riyadh’s luxurious Ritz Carlton hotel, asking linked to groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Taleban walk were approached in their living quarters, they declined throne, was freed after agreeing to pay over $1 billion them to hand over assets and cash in return for their around freely in flowing white robes, and have access to to talk. Critics say there is a moral hazard of treating to settle corruption allegations against him, a Saudi freedom. a spacious gym, a banquet hall and furnished apart- militants, many with blood on their hands, with lavish official said yesterday. Miteb, 65, son of the late King Apart from Miteb, the Saudi official said that at least ments reserved for visits from spouses. “We make the facilities and financial incentives. But Saudi officials say Abdullah and former head of the elite National Guard, three other suspects had finalized settlement agree- ‘beneficiaries’ feel they are normal people and still have the threat of sanction is always hanging over them. was among dozens of royal family members, high offi- ments and that the public prosecutor had decided to a chance - a chance to return to society,” Abu Those who refuse to reform after a minimum stay of cials and senior businessmen rounded up this month in release several individuals. The prosecutor has decided Maghayed said, insisting the center refrained from call- three months at the center are returned to “the judicial a crackdown on graft that has strengthened the power to put at least five people on trial, the official said with- ing them prisoners or inmates. process”, Abu Maghayed said. of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. out disclosing their identities. The fate of billionaire Saudi Arabia, long accused of exporting its ultracon- But more than coercion, the center pushes for The official, who is involved in the crackdown and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, chairman of investment firm servative Wahhabist Sunni doctrine around the world, is increasing familial bonds, encouraging marriage and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Miteb was Kingdom Holding and one of Saudi Arabia’s most itself a victim of domestic terror attacks. Crown Prince children, a psychological tether meant to make it harder released on Tuesday after reaching “an acceptable set- prominent international businessmen, was not known. Mohammed bin Salman, who has sought to roll back the to return to violent ways. “You cannot counter terrorism tlement agreement”. The official said he believed the Kingdom issued a statement earlier this month say- influence of the ultra-conservative religious establish- by force,” said Ali Al-Afnan, an educational psychology agreed sum to be the equivalent of over $1 billion. “It is ing it was continuing to operate normally but has not ment, this week jump-started a 41-nation military coali- specialist at the center. “Only ideas can fight ideas.” The understood that the settlement included admitting cor- responded to queries about his status since he was tion to combat Islamist extremism, vowing to wipe ter- center uses art therapy as one of its tools. Comparisons detained early this month. Two Saudi sources told ruption involving known cases,” the official said, with- rorism from the face of the Earth. between portraits in the early days of incarceration and Reuters that Prince Alwaleed has so far refused to out giving details. According to the official, Prince But the rehab facility, founded in 2004, is one of the those at later stages are used as a metric to study reach a settlement and had asked for access to his Miteb was accused of embezzlement, hiring ghost centerpieces of Saudi Arabia’s strategy to expunge vio- inmates’ frame of mind. lawyer in order to fight allegations against him. employees and awarding contracts to his own firms, lent extremism at home. It claims to have treated more Abu Maghayed showed AFP one early painting, Relatives, his lawyer and officials in his office could not including a deal for walkie-talkies and bulletproof mili- than 3,300 men convicted of terrorism-related crimes, which he said depicted a gloomy “Guantanamo mentali- be contacted to comment. — Reuters tary gear. including repatriated Guantanamo Bay detainees. The ty” - with splashes of orange, the color of jumpsuits at center boasts of a “success rate of 86 percent”, Abu the infamous prison. Another canvas painted weeks later Maghayed said, measured by those men who did not showed bold brushstrokes and sparks of color, depicting leaders have been arrested and convicted. He is no ally return to jihad for at least a decade after graduating hope. As Afnan spoke to AFP, he fielded an abrupt tele- Trump pilloried or friend of ours.” Stephen Doughty, another Labour from the center. Of the remainder, he said, most only phone call from a former “beneficiary” who once trav- MP, called the videos “highly inflammatory” and his col- showed signs of “deviant behavior” and only a minus- elled to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taleban. Now for retweeting... league Yvette Cooper said Trump had given Fransen a cule number relapsed into violent jihad. married and with children, he was seeking advice from “huge platform”. Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said An American terrorism expert who has closely stud- Afnan over returning to university for a graduate pro- the retweets were “abhorrent, dangerous and a threat.” ied the Saudi program said the recidivism rate was high- gram. “This man is our role model,” Afnan said after Continued from Page 1 Fransen and Britain First leader Paul Golding were er, pointing out media reports of graduates from the hanging up. “A shining example of how people deserve a due to appear in court on Wednesday for a pre-trial center who have showed up on battlefronts. “Saudis are second chance.” — AFP Fransen was found guilty last year of a hate crime review on charges of “threatening, abusive or insulting after hurling abuse at a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. words or behavior” over a speech she made in Belfast. Britain First, which was formed in 2011 and is known for Trump’s interventions in British politics and controver- Washington Post reported. Trump denied the accusa- picketing outside mosques, has run and lost in several sial foreign policy have strained the so-called “special NBC fires star tions, accused rival Democrats and the media of a British and European parliament elections. Brendan relationship”. He has infuriated British authorities with smear campaign, and went on to win the election. Cox, widower of MP Jo Cox who was murdered by a his tweets on terrorism in Britain, including highly publi- Trump was also famously embarrassed in the final rightwing extremist last year, said: “Trump has legit- cized run-ins with London’s Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan. anchor Lauer... stretch of last year’s presidential campaign by the imized the far right in his own country, now he’s trying Yesterday’s retweets were part of an early morning release of audio in which he is heard boasting that his to do it in ours. Spreading hatred has consequences & burst in which Trump again dismissed CNN as “Fake Continued from Page 1 fame allows him to grab women’s genitals and get away the president should be ashamed of himself.” News” and insisted the US economy was in “record with it. At the time he acknowledged the veracity of the David Lammy, an MP for the opposition Labour territory” by many measures. Trump also said consumer “My client and I met with representatives from so-called “Access Hollywood” tape and apologized Party, said: “The president of the United States is pro- confidence was at an all-time high. “I guess somebody NBC’s Human Resources and Legal Departments at 6 publicly. It was initially thought the revelation could moting a fascist, racist, extremist hate group whose likes me (my policies)!” the president wrote. — AFP pm on Monday for an interview that lasted several derail his bid for the White House. Trump has since hours. Our impression at this point is that NBC acted changed his tone, and told a Republican senator shortly quickly, as all companies should, when confronted after his election victory that “we don’t think it was my Muslims and Bosnian Croats after an initial alliance fell with credible allegations of sexual misconduct in the voice”, the New York Times reported yesterday, quot- Bosnian war apart. The appeal judges said all six men, who had been workplace,” Wilkenfeld said in a story published by ing a person familiar with that conversation.
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