According to the February 7, 2001, testimony of Jamal al-Fadl: “The Saudis tried to dissuade bin Laden from his campaign against them. Saad al-Fagih says, ‘I know personally of three delegations that went to the Sudan to ask him not to target Saudi targets. They told him: *Your fight is with the United States, not with us.* ’ Bin Laden said that the Saudis ‘–sent my mother, my uncle and my brothers in almost nine visits to Khartoum asking me to stop and return to Arabia to apologize to King Fahd…I refused to go back.’ ”
– Peter Bergen, Holy War, Inc., Page 92