Joe Scarborough
How one man's investigation has blown the lid off of Saudi Arabia's partnership with Osama bin Laden
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | A new story that reads more like a Tom Clancy novel, Time magazine reports this week on how one man's investigation has blown the lid off of Saudi Arabia's partnership with Osama bin Laden.
This week, TIME magazine reports on Gerald Posner's book, "Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11." While the book's title may borrow from a John Kennedy work, "Why America Slept" exposes intrigue, deception and possibly murder inside the house of Saudi. And proves once and for all that Saudi Arabia gave Osama bin Laden their money and their protection.
The spy story began 17 months ago when Osama bin Laden's right hand man, Abu Zubaydah, was arrested in Pakistan. As Time reports, U.S. interrogators used Sodium Pentothal to make Zubaydah talk. When questioning stalled, the CIA flew the terrorist to an Afghan complex fitted out as a fake Saudi jail chamber, where "two Arab-Americans, now with special forces," pretending to be Saudi inquisitors, used drugs and threats to scare him into more confessions.
But when Zubaydah was confronted by the false Saudis, "his reaction was not fear, but utter relief." Happy to see them, he reeled off telephone numbers for senior members of the royal family who would, said Zubaydah, "tell you what to do."
The numbers proved to be accurate. And Zubaydah explained how the Saudis aided Osama bin Laden in return for protection at home.
Soon after the CIA confronted the Saudis about their find, the 3 Saudi princes named by Zubaydah died of mysterious circumstances, all within a week of one another. One 43-year-old prince had a mysterious heart attack, a second prince died the next day in a high-speed car accident, and the next week, the third prince died-get this-of thirst.
Meanwhile, American leaders who continue believing they can fight our War on Terror without seeing the Saudis for who they really are, are compromising America's security.
That's why it is important that the White House
releases the entire 9/11 report. Even the 26 pages that are
unflattering to their Saudi friends. It's long past time that the
Saudi royal family stops lying to the world, and instead
starts telling us the Real Deal.
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