Вот еще, о участии семьи любимца публики в "акции", ссылаются на статью в Сандей Геральд...
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Non-Financial SBG Company Resources Suspected of Playing a Role in Terrorist Acts
Maps and company trucks used in the takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s, in which a family member, who is now on the SBG board, played a central role (Sunday Herald)
Possible Use of Binladin Company Resources in Terrorist Acts
"One of bin Laden's brothers, Mahrous - who was once arrested over his connections to armed Islamists in Saudi Arabia - is currently manager of the Saudi Binladin Group, the family's multibillion- dollar business, at its branch in Medina. After studying in England in the 1970s, Mahrous struck up a friendship with members of the Muslim Brothers, a Syrian Islamic fundamentalist organisation then in exile in Saudi Arabia. Members of this organisation used bin Laden company trucks to get weapons into the city of Mecca in 1979 when at least 500 dissidents invaded and seized the Grand Mosque. The organisation justified the attack by saying the Saudi regime had lost its legitimacy through "corruption, ostentation and mindless imitation of the West". All the men who took part in the attack were later beheaded in the squares of four Saudi cities but Mahrous was freed from prison after a period of detention. Saudi intelligence later said that the bin Ladens were the only people in possession of full maps of Mecca. It is believed that the bin Ladens' close relationship with the Saudi royal family saved Mahrous... He [Bakr Mohammed] and 13 of Salem's brothers - including Mahrous - make up the board of the Binladin Group" (Neil MacKay, "Family Ties; The Bin Ladens", The Sunday Herald, October 7, 2001)
