Video: Saudi prince reveals Bashir’s offer rejected by the kingdom for the first time

Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal revealed that former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in 1996 told Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to hand over Osama bin Laden, the former of al-Qaeda leader, but in one condition.

The move came during a meeting with Al-Arabiya TV channel aired on Saturday.

“President Omar Al-Bashir came to visit the Kingdom in the beginning of 1996 for the pilgrimage or to Umrah and met with His Highness the Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and said to Prince Abdullah that we would like to cooperate with you and hand bin Laden to you,” al-Faisal said.

“At the time His Highness the Crown Prince was pleased and said: “Welcome to his country”.

Prince Turki continued: “I look at him Bashir and said to him, but on the condition, that you don’t trial him, then Prince Abdullah told him we don’t have anyone above the law and the sharia applies to all even to the king as it applies to the ordinary citizens to come and ensure a just rule of Sharia, Remember the Sudanese.”

On the September 11, 2001 attacks, Prince Turki said: “The first I thought of being responsible for these attacks are a group of Serbs because the US intervened in the civil war in Bosnia and then in Kosovo and forced the Serbs to retreat from their barbarism against Muslims in both places, Bosnia and Kosovo.”

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