SAUDIS HINT OF IRAQI INVOLVEMENT IN ATTACKS ON U.S.

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- For the first time, Saudi Arabia, under heavy criticismfor its support of Osama Bin Laden, has hinted that Iraq could be involvedin the Islamic suicide attacks on New York and Washington. Saudi officials have suggested that a Middle East power, probably Iraq,was behind the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The officials have notnamed Iraq publicly but the clear implication was that President SaddamHussein was involved.