August 29, 2003	Friday	Jumadi-us-Sani 30, 1424

RIYADH, Aug 28: The Abu-Dhabi based Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan International Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up, which in the past had hosted speakers with “anti-American and anti-Semitic views” has been closed down.

Questions were reportedly raised in the US about the Center. The UAE has been funding and hosting the centre when it started functioning in 1999.

The think-tank was established with the aim of promoting Arab unity and has hosted speakers including the former US Vice President Al Gore and the former US Secretary of State James Baker.

The centre had in past also hosted speakers such as Thierry Meyssan, author of “9/11, The Big Lie,” which implicated US military officials in the Sept 11, 2001 attacks.