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Boston Blast: Injured Saudi nationals not
suspects
Wednesday April 17, 2013 05:44:37 PM,
Agencies
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Washington: Two Saudi nationals were
injured in the bombings in Boston but neither was accused of
involvement even though one was initially put under armed guard at
a hospital, the embassy said Tuesday.
The Saudi embassy in Washington said that two of its nationals,
one man and one woman, were wounded in Monday’s blasts. Police
earlier said that the 20-year-old man was being guarded but was
not under detention.
US authorities told the embassy late Monday “that no Saudi
national was a suspect in the Boston Marathon attack and that the
Saudi national in question was a witness, not a suspect,” mission
spokesperson Nail Al-Jubeir said.
US investigators are still piecing together clues from Monday’s
attack and have not determined whether the assailants were from
the United States or overseas.
The presence of a Saudi man drew initial, albeit cautious,
attention from US media due to recent history. Fifteen of the 19
hijackers behind the September 11, 2001 attacks came from Saudi
Arabia, a longtime US ally.
The attacks came as Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Saud
al-Faisal, visited Washington, where he met Tuesday with Secretary
of State John Kerry.
Prince Saud offered “our solidarity with the great people of
Boston in this tragedy” and said Saudi Arabia condemned every
“terrorist act.”
“We have felt the evil of the act of terror. We support the
families and we give our condolences to the families of Boston,”
he told reporters in English after the talks.
Prince Saud said that Boston was “considered one of the homes” for
Saudis due to the large number who studied in the city’s numerous
universities. He said that the injured Saudi woman was married to
a student.
“We hope she is well and we hope well to all those who have been
injured,” he said.
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