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Book Review: The Eleventh Day, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan | Afterword | National Post
It's nothing new, really. Most people who follow this knows the Saudis were very involved.
And that Bush was protecting them.
Book Review: The Eleventh Day, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan | Afterword | National Post
The most damning element of the LIHOP story is that the CIA identified two of the 9/11 hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, as Al-Qaeda operatives and knew they had entered the United States months before the attacks. Yet, it alerted neither the FBI nor U.S. Immigration to the fact. Rather than condemning the agency for simple incompetence, Summers and Swan bring up far more fascinating hypotheses: that the two terrorists were posing as double agents for Saudi Arabias intelligence service or that the CIA believed they had potential for recruitment. In either case, they conclude, the agency purposely allowed them into the country and, obviously, committed a tragic miscalculation.
Whether the Saudis played a role in all this is unresolved. Indeed, the relationship between Saudi rulers and Osama bin Laden, progeny of one of the most influential families in the kingdom, is an enduring mystery. The 9/11 Commission made little headway in solving it, and the Bush administration did all in its power to prevent disclosure on this point. Information alleging Saudi support for Al-Qaeda remains classified.
While it appears the U.S. administration went out of its way to protect Saudi Arabia, it told outright lies to justify attacking Iraq on the false premise that it was behind 9/11. Pakistan, yet another of Washingtons supposed allies, also has a dubious history with bin Laden, right up to providing his sanctuary until U.S. forces tracked him down and killed him. In no conflict has it ever been more difficult to differentiate friends from enemies.
It's nothing new, really. Most people who follow this knows the Saudis were very involved.
And that Bush was protecting them.