Al Qaeda-Saudi links?
Excerpts from a new book by Gerald Posner on the September 11th attacks suggest so.
From a TIME magazine article (via Eschaton):
[the author of the book] said bin Laden “personally” told him of a 1991 meeting at which [Prince Turki al-Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, the kingdom’s longtime intelligence chief] agreed to let bin Laden leave Saudi Arabia and to provide him with secret funds as long as al-Qaeda refrained from promoting jihad in the kingdom.
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The first question everyone will ask is, Is it true? And many will wonder if these matters were addressed in the 28 pages censored from Washington’s official report on 9/11. It has long been suggested that Saudi Arabia probably had some kind of secret arrangement to stave off fundamentalists within the kingdom. But this appears to be the first description of a repeated, explicit quid pro quo between bin Laden and a Saudi official.
To file along with the “Hillary Clinton to run for President” rumours: not necessarily true, but if it is, you read it here first ;-). (Assuming you did, of course, read it here first.)