{"id":11997,"date":"2012-07-01T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/exclusive-saudi-dissident-set-to-come-off-un-al-qaeda-blacklist\/"},"modified":"2012-07-01T00:05:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:05:52","slug":"exclusive-saudi-dissident-set-to-come-off-un-al-qaeda-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/exclusive-saudi-dissident-set-to-come-off-un-al-qaeda-blacklist\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE-Saudi dissident set to come off UN al Qaeda blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Saudi Arabia opposes exiled Faqih’s de-listing-envoys<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Faqih says he’s committed to peace, criticizes Riyadh<\/p>\n

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* U.K., Faqih’s home, supports de-listing; U.S. opposed<\/p>\n

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By Louis Charbonneau<\/p>\n

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UNITED NATIONS, June 30 (Reuters) – A U.N. Security Council
\ncommittee is set to remove Saudi dissident Saad al-Faqih from
\nthe United Nations’ al Qaeda sanctions list this weekend if no
\ncouncil member demands that the 15-nation body intervene, U.N.
\ndiplomats said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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The London-based Faqih was added to the U.N. al Qaeda
\nsanctions list in December 2004, days after the U.S. Treasury
\nDepartment hit him with U.S. sanctions for suspected links to
\nthe late Osama bin Laden’s militant network, which was
\nresponsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.<\/p>\n

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“Unless someone calls for the Security Council to take up
\nthe issue, Saad al-Faqih will be de-listed tomorrow at 5:30 p.m
\n(2130 GMT),” a council diplomat told Reuters on condition of
\nanonymity. “So far no one has called for the council to act.”<\/p>\n

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Other diplomats confirmed his remarks about Faqih, formerly
\na professor of medicine at a Saudi university. All said it
\nremained theoretically possible for the United States or another
\ncouncil member opposed to Faqih’s de-listing to call for
\nSecurity Council intervention at the last minute.<\/p>\n

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But even if the council took up the issue, it was not
\nimmediately clear Faqih’s U.N. delisting would be stopped,
\nthough it would undoubtedly be delayed past Sunday.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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* Saudi Arabia opposes exiled Faqih’s de-listing-envoys * Faqih says he’s committed to peace, criticizes Riyadh * U.K., Faqih’s home, supports de-listing; U.S. opposed By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, June 30 (Reuters) – A U.N. Security Council committee is set to remove Saudi dissident Saad al-Faqih from the United Nations’ al Qaeda sanctions list this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}