You know those videotapes showing CIA operatives interrogating terror suspects that were recently reported as destroyed? Well, according to investigative journalist Gerlad Posner, they weren’t destroyed, like most people think, because they proved that agents of the United States were torturing people. No, according to Posner, they were destroyed because of what the men said as they were being tortured – that there was a direct link between al Qaeda’s 9/11 attack on the U.S. and the governments of both Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Here’s a clip in which Posner discusses the Saudi and Pakistani leaders his sources tell him were named by al Qaeda’s Abu Zubaydah as he was being interrogated. Of course, it can’t be proven, as the videotapes have been destroyed.
…He named two other Saudi princes, and also the chief of Pakistan’s air force, as his major contacts. Moreover, he stunned his interrogators, by charging that two of the men, the King’s nephew, and the Pakistani Air Force chief, knew a major terror operation was planned for America on 9/11.
It would be nice to further investigate the men named by Zubaydah, but that is not possible. All four identified by Zubaydah are now dead. As for the three Saudi princes, the King’s 43-year-old nephew, Prince Ahmed, died of either a heart attack or blood clot, depending on which report you believe, after having liposuction in Riyadh’s top hospital; the second, 41-year-old Prince Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki al-Saud, died the following day in a one car accident, on his way to the funeral of Prince Ahmed; and one week later, the third Saudi prince named by Zubaydah, 25-year-old Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, died, according to the Saudi Royal Court, “of thirst.” The head of Pakistan’s Air Force, Mushaf Ali Mir, was the last to go. He died, together with his wife and fifteen of his top aides, when his plane blew up – suspected as sabotage – in February 2003. Pakistan’s investigation of the explosion – if one was even done – has never been made public.
Zubaydah is the only top al Queda operative who has secretly linked two of America’s closest allies in the war on terror – Saudi Arabia and Pakistan – to the 9/11 attacks. Why does Bush, and the CIA, continue to protect the Saudi Royal family and the Pakistani military, from the implications of Zubaydah’s confessions? It is, or course, because the Bush administration desperately needs Pakistani and Saudi help, not only to keep Afghanistan from spinning completely out of control, but also as counterweights to the growing power of Iran. The Sunni governments in Riyadh and Islamabad have as much to fear from a resurgent Iran as does the Bush administration. But does this mean that leads about the origins of 9/11 should not be aggressively pursued? Of course not. But this is precisely what the Bush administration is doing. And now the cover-up is enhanced by the CIA’s destruction of Zubaydah’s interrogation tapes…
I have no idea whether or not this is true, but it certainly seems like something worth looking into.
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