Combating Terrorism Through Education: The Near East & South Asian Experience HEARING before the COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Time: 10:00 AM 9:30 AM Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building Presiding: Senator Lugar Senator Lugar's Opening Statement   Witnesses:     Panel 1 Dr. Bassem Awadallah    Vice Chairman    King Abdullah II Fund for Development    Minister of Finance    Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan    Amman, Jordan Mr. Shahid Javed Burki    Consultant    Nathan Associates    Potomac, Maryland Ms. Dr. Samina Ahmed    South Asia Project Director    International Crisis Group    Islamabad, Pakistan    Panel 2 Mr. Frank Method    Director of International Education Policy and Systems    Research Triangle Institute    Washington, DC    Panel 3 Ms. Elizabeth Cheney    Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for      Near Eastern Affairs    Department of State    Washington, DC Mr. James Kunder    Assistant Administrator for Asia & the Near East    USAID    Washington, DC   Witness names in blue are links to the statement given. Statements are only posted if provided electronically by witness.