Two Saudi planes carrying food for "the Afghan people" have left for the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, the official SPA news agency said Friday, November 2. It said the planes carried sugar, rice, tea, milk and cooking oil.
Saudi Arabia has said it supports the anti-terror campaign but has not backed the US-led air strikes on Afghanistan, where Saudi-born Islamist militant and prime terror suspect Osama Bin Laden is based. — (AFP, Riyadh)
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