Monday, July 17, 2006

Saudi ambassador pledges to continue helping New Orleans

You can read more about Disaster Relief on the AFP Disaster Relief Blog

Saudi ambassador pledges to continue helping New Orleans: "NEW ORLEANS -- A Saudi prince pledged Wednesday that his kingdom will keep helping bankroll the relief effort in hurricane-torn Louisiana.

'After the floods have receded, after the ground settled, after the plagues have gone away _ we all feel the same needs,' Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's to the United States, said Wednesday during a to New Orleans.

The prince, the youngest son of the Saudi king and the kingdom's former head of intelligence, did not name a dollar figure, citing a Quranic passage which encourages anonymous giving."

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