Reply #12: May have been to prevent disclosure of Saudi & Pakistani complicity in attacks [View All]

It is interesting that this analysis comes from anti-JKF conspiracist Gerald Posner.

His theory is that the CIA interrogation tapes of Abu Zubaydah demonstrated that Saudi and Pakistani government officials were involved in the 9/11 attacks.

During the interrogation, the Americans created a false flag illusion, pretending to turn Abu Zubaydah over to Saudi interrogators. The "Saudis" however, were fakes; they were Americans. The CIA believed that Abu Zubaydah would fear being tortured or killed by Saudi intelligence.

Instead, Zubaydah appeared relieved and provided the fake interrogators with phone numbers of high Saudi officials expecting them to help him out:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-posner/the-cias-destroyed-inter_b_75850.html

Also, disclosed was how U.S. intelligence established a so-called "fake flag" operation, in which the wounded Zubaydah was transferred to Afghanistan under the ruse that he had actually been turned over to the Saudis. The Saudis had him on a wanted list, and the Americans believed that Zubaydah, fearful of torture and death at the hands of the Saudis, would start talking when confronted by U.S. agents playing the role of Saudi intelligence officers.

Instead, when confronted by his "Saudi" interrogators, Zubaydah showed no fear. Instead, according to the two U.S. intelligence sources that provided me the details, he seemed relieved. The man who had been reluctant to even confirm his identity to his U.S. captors, suddenly talked animatedly. He was happy to see them, he said, because he feared the Americans would kill him. He then asked his interrogators to call a senior member of the Saudi royal family. And Zubaydah provided a private home number and a cell phone number from memory. "He will tell you what to do," Zubaydah assured them

That man was Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, one of King Fahd's nephews, and the chairman of the largest Saudi publishing empire. Later, American investigators would determine that Prince Ahmed had been in the U.S. on 9/11.

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... Several hours after he first fingered Prince Ahmed, his captors challenged the information, and said that since he had disparaged the Saudi royal family, he would be executed. It was at that point that some of the secrets of 9/11 came pouring out. In a short monologue, that one investigator told me was the "Rosetta Stone" of 9/11, Zubaydah laid out details of how he and the al Qaeda hierarchy had been supported at high levels inside the Saudi and Pakistan governments.

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.

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Well, they certainly don't want the public to get its hands on the "Rosetta Stone" of 9/11.