BURAIDAH: Saudi Arabia’s initiative to set up an international center to combat global terrorism, which was suggested at an international conference on terrorism held in Riyadh 2005, has been reconfirmed and reinforced at a pan-Arab scientific symposium at Qassim University yesterday.
The symposium was organized by Naif Arab University for Security Sciences in cooperation with Qassim University with the support of Qassim Gov. Prince Faisal bin Bandar.
The suggested center should build an international database to fight terrorism and urge all countries of the world to exchange information, Maj. Gen. Hasan Al-Shehri, the scientific supervisor of the symposium, said while announcing the recommendations of the symposium.
Prince Faisal lauded the role played by the Kingdom to fight terrorism. “The Kingdom was successful in fighting terrorism and ending terrorist acts,” he said, adding that security is a common responsibility between all citizens and security men.
Naif Arab University for Security Sciences was asked to build a scientific project for designing a database to combat terrorism with the intention of generalizing the idea among other Arab states, Al-Shehri said.
Other recommendations of the event include supporting scientific research on terrorism and exploiting knowledge, databases and experience learned from countering terrorism among countries of the world, said Al-Shehri.
Over three days, 13 Arab and international speakers examined the importance of building security databases and using technology to anticipate terror threats, said Al-Shehri.
