Posner: New book about ISI/Saudi ties with 9/11

Gerald Posner (ABC News, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Phi Beta Kappa graduate, pro-Iraq war supporter), author "Case Closed", released a new book about controversial ties of Pakistan Secret Service and Saudi Intelligence regarding 9/11. His research is based on "two government sources" about claims by Abu Zubaydah, who is still at an undisclosed location

Book: Saudis knew of 9/11 plot

NY Daily News -Monday, September 1st, 2003

WASHINGTON - A top Al Qaeda leader in U.S. custody has detailed ties among Osama Bin Laden, Pakistani officials and members of the Saudi royal family, charging that some of them knew about the 9/11 plot in advance, according to a new book.

At one point, the captured operative, Abu Zubaydah, told his interrogators to call a Saudi prince who could get him off the hook, the book says. The explosive revelations in Gerald Posner's new book, "Why America Slept," outline how U.S. agents missed numerous chances to unravel Al Qaeda's deadly plans to attack the U.S. Posner contends that after Zubaydah was nabbed in Pakistan in March 2002, the CIA gave him painkillers and sodium pentothal, a truth serum, to coax the former Al Qaeda operations chief to spill terror leader Bin Laden's plans. They tricked him into thinking he was in a Saudi jail and sent in U.S. agents posing as Saudis to question him, the book says. A relieved Zubaydah, who was actually in Afghanistan, ticked off telephone numbers for a senior member of the Saudi royal family who would "tell you what to do," Posner writes, according to Time magazine.

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