jimd3100
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Bandar and his wife are mentioned as supporting someone on the list, ostensibly for a charitable purpose.
I believe this very thing is discussed in those 28 pages. Bassnan was known for years to be a terrorist. He was already known (by the FBI) to have hosted parties in Washington D.C. for Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh". The money Bandar was giving Bassnan(it wasn't just the wives) kept coming after the health issues no longer applied and was then turned over to Bayoumi and then found it's way to the hijackers. This is what the informants FBI handler testified to at a classified hearing of the Joint Inquiry......
"Several members were "appalled" at what informed sources described as the "explosive" testimony of Special Agent Steven Butler, who recently retired from the FBI after his final posting in the bureau's San Diego field office."
"Government officials told U.S. News that Butler disclosed that he had been monitoring a flow of Saudi Arabian money that wound up in the hands of two of the 9/11 hijackers. The two men had rented a room from a man Butler had used as a confidential informant, the sources say. According to officials familiar with his account, Butler said that he had alerted his superiors about the money flows but the warning went nowhere."
"Butler is claiming ... that people [in the FBI] didn't follow up," says a congressional source. Adds another: "He saw a pattern, a trail, and he told his supervisors, but it ended there."
https://web.archive.org/web/2002120...ews.com/usnews/news/features/saudi_021129.htm
Meanwhile as Bandar's money is going to the hijackers,...accidentally of course...........
9-11 commission Chapter 4 footnote 66:
As late as July 3, 2001, the DCI was pressing Bandar, conveying the urgent need for information. CIA cable, DCI meeting with Bandar, July 3, 2001
http://www.faqs.org/docs/911/911Report-499.html
That's the big question...what information did the Saudis share? Well according to the CIA not much....
9-11 commission Chapter 4 footnote 67:
The Saudis, however, were reluctant to provide details of incomplete investigations and highly sensitive to any information related to Saudi nationals, particularly those in the Kingdom
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf
But Bandar has another story.....
Speaking to the Arabic satellite network Al-Arabiya on Thursday, Bandar -- now Abdullah's national security adviser -- said Saudi intelligence was "actively following" most of the September 11, 2001, plotters "with precision."
"If U.S. security authorities had engaged their Saudi counterparts in a serious and credible manner, in my opinion, we would have avoided what happened," he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/01/saudiarabia.terrorism/index.html
However unnamed U.S. sources say ignore this....I guess he's just joking?
A knowledgeable U.S. official told CNN that Bandar's comments should be taken "with a grain of salt."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/01/saudiarabia.terrorism/index.html
But the question remains, what information was being exchanged?
U.S. and Saudi officials confirm the Saudis created a terror task force as early as 1997 to exchange information with the United States. They usually met once a month either in Riyadh or Washington.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/10/16/saudis-us-disclose-intel-operations-on-terror.html
We can all watch Tenet lie under oath at the Joint Inquiry and Commission hearings here....
Joint Inquiry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF38P58-rdo
9-11 Commission:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cIo33eVSKg
Why give a free pass to Bandar? AFAIK Tenet wasn't "accidentally" funding the hijackers? ....
Interview of Prince Bandar of the Government of Saudi Arabia
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2610777?q=2610777
CIA officers familiar with the agency's relationship with Saudi Arabia say that about once a month, Tenet would slip away from CIA headquarters and travel to Bandar's nearby estate in McLean, Virginia, for quiet talks."
"Bandar and Tenet had a very close relationship," said one CIA officer. "Bandar had a unique role, he was in charge of the American relationship for Saudi Arabia."
"But some CIA officers handling Saudi issues complain that Tenet would not tell them what he had discussed with Bandar, making it difficult for agency officials to know the nature of any deals their boss was arranging with the Saudis." page 188
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743270665/centerforcoop-20#noop
"Bandar had a unique role, he was in charge of the American relationship for Saudi Arabia."
And how did that work out again?...
A small sample of why your fantasy is nonsense......
U.S. Government’s hope of eventually obtaining Saudi cooperation was unrealistic because Saudi assistance to the U.S. Government on this matter is contrary to Saudi national interests -- page 142/858
The Treasury Department General Counsel testified at the July 23, 2002 hearing about the lack of Saudi cooperation
A number of U. S. Government officials complained to the Joint Inquiry about a lack of Saudi cooperation in terrorism investigations both before and after the September 11 attacks --- page 143/858
http://fas.org/irp/congress/2002_rpt/911rept.pdf
The unclassified sections of the report quote a host of U.S. officials as saying the Saudis were unhelpful at best in the years before the attacks, and that they did little to help investigate them for at least 18 months afterward.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jul/29/nation/na-saudi29
So it's all a coincidence/misunderstanding? ......Bandar is just the Arab version of a Keystone cop?
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