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kitty1 Donating Member (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 06:30 PM
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10. Here's an extraordinary claim by Bandar given just after the attacks...
in New York on 9/11 and following the London explosion on July 7th.

Bandar’s accusations that the U.S. government could have stopped 9/11, had they pursued leads provided by Saudi intelligence, were met with skepticism by some U.S. intelligence officials consulted by EIR. They pointed to EIR’s own June 29, 2007 revelations, drawn from the 9/11 Commission Report and other sources, that then-Saudi Ambassador Bandar had funnelled more than $50,000 through two Saudi intelligence operatives, to some of the 9/11 hijackers. One source emphasized that the Bandar payments were so controversial that a 28-page segment of the 9/11 Commission report, dealing with this incident, was classified and blocked, to this day, from publication. But the Prince’s charges of U.S. failures, leading to the 9/11 attacks, could signal a rift between the Saudi prince and his “war party” ally Dick Cheney, that could set back the Vice President’s schemes to build up a Sunni versus Shi’ite confrontation in the Persian Gulf—a scheme he launched with his November 2006 trip to Riyadh, arranged by Bandar personally.
Whether legitimate or not, Prince Bandar’s extraordinary claims mirrored comments made by King Abdullah on Oct. 29, in an interview with the BBC on the eve of his state visit to London. King Abdullah claimed that British authorities also failed to listen to Saudi intelligence warnings about terror plots in England; and the July 7, 2005 London subway bombings, which killed 52 people, could have been prevented, if British authorities had acted on specific warnings passed from Riyadh in advance of the attacks.
http://rinf.com/alt-news/911-truth/will-911-and-bae-derail-cheneys-plan-to-bomb-iran/1717/

Oh they got specific warnings alright. More like threats probably that transpired into a suicide attack with Abdullah's authorization.
I'm sure the U.S. and Britain are going to take security advise from the enemy.
We'll allow the coyotes to guard the sheep for sure.


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