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Saudi royal involved in aiding terrorists, says Guantanamo detainee
[Jerusalem Post] Allegations of Saudi involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks still persists in the US despite denials by the FBI and White House.A suspected al Qaida operative detained at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, claims that a member of the Saudi royal family helped recruit terror operatives before the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a recently released transcript by the Pentagon. Ghassan Abdallah al-Sharbi recalled that a unnamed figure referred to as "your highness" by a religious figure in the organization was consulted by telephone before he was sent to the US to carry out an unfulfilled operation involving the use of an airplane. Al-Sharbi, who studied as a college student in Arizona, made the comments to the Periodic Review Board at Guantanamo Bay in June, 2016. The Periodic Review Board makes recommendations concerning the release or continued detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon released a transcript of al-Sharbi's comments on Thursday. "I remember, 'yes, your highness, yes your highness,' and he was talking to him about me," the transcript quotes al-Sharbi as saying. "'This guy graduated from an aviation school. Yeah, he wants'... then he turns off his phone," al-Sharbi added. The statements have been scrutinized as lacking important details, including if "the religious figure" in the al-Qaida organization had connections to any officials in the Saudi government. Furthermore, the Saudi royal family consists of thousands of members, none of whom are directly identified by al-Sharbi. But the transcript adds to growing suspicion among politicians in the United States that figures in the Saudi Arabian government may have had a hand in assisting the 19 terrorists who successfully carried out the worst terror attack in US history. Posted by: Besoeker 2016-09-19 |
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