1.   And the Saudi authorities have taken steps to tighten controls over bank transfers and charity funding.

2.   But they emphasized that the Saudi authorities would take the lead in the inquiry.

3.   During that time, he said the group was under constant surveillance from Saudi authorities.

4.   He said Afghanistan had asked the Saudi authorities to arrest them.

5.   He said he thought that Saudi authorities, who use prisons in part as re-education camps, had persuaded Awdah and others to reconsider their extreme views.

6.   In a factual discrepancy, Abdullah said that the three suspects who escaped on flights to Mecca have not been detained by Saudi authorities.

7.   It was not clear if the Saudi authorities spent any of the money to reduce the deficit.

8.   Last March, in an incident that is now being intensely scrutinized, Saudi authorities intercepted a car carrying bomb-making equipment from Lebanon into Saudi Arabia.

9.   More realism and cooperation from Saudi authorities after the first bomb attack might well have helped prevent the second.

10.   Officials conclude that al-Sayegh entered Canada to avoid arrest by Saudi authorities.