ref 448
December 9, 2005
ref 219
June 9, 2004
ref 103
February 24, 2004
ref 198
October 9, 2002
ref 158
December 11, 2001
ref 159
December 10, 2001
ref 247
October 29, 2001
ref 44
October 22, 2001
ref 343
October 22, 2001
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| 1 | Before 9/11, U.S. warned Saudis about plane threats | archived: ref 448 |
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| Reuters December 9, 2005 |
The United States told Saudi Arabia more than three years before the September 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden might be targeting civilian airplanes, according to a newly declassified State Department cable. | |||||
| 2 | TIA [Tampa Int'l Airport] now verifies flight of Saudis | archived: ref 219 |
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| St. Petersburg Times June 9, 2004 |
The government has long denied that two days after the 9/11 attacks, the three were allowed to fly... TAMPA - Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, a small jet landed at Tampa International Airport, picked up three young Saudi men and left. | |||||
| 3 | more saudis exit U.S. after 9/11 than had been reported | ref 103 |
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| Judicial Watch (FOI document) February 24, 2004 |
The documents represent the first admission by the government that the flights occurred at all. Judicial Watch is asking the 9/11 Commission to investigate and reconcile previous contradictory testimony about Saudis being allowed to leave the country. The documents . . . show that 160 Saudis were allowed to leave on 55 commercial flights from airports around the country between Sept. 11 and Sept. 15, 2001. | |||||
| 4 | Visas that Should Have Been Denied | archived: ref 198 |
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| National Review Online October 9, 2002 |
In the year after 9/11, the hand-wringing mostly centered on the FBI and CIA's failure to "connect the dots." But that would not have been a fatal blow if the "dots" had not been here in the first place. If the U.S. State Department had followed the law, at least 15 of the 19 "dots" should have been denied visas € and they likely wouldn't have been in the United States on September 11, 2001. | |||||
| 5 | Bush Advisers Cashed in on Saudi Gravy Train | archived: ref 158 |
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| Boston Herald December 11, 2001 |
Many of the same American corporate executives who have reaped millions of dollars from arms and oil deals with the Saudi monarchy have served or currently serve at the highest levels of U.S. government, public records show. Those lucrative financial relationships call into question the ability of America's political elite to make tough foreign policy decisions about the kingdom that produced Osama bin Laden and is perhaps the biggest incubator for anti-Western Islamic terrorists. | |||||
| 6 | U.S. Ties to Saudi Elite May Be Hurting War on Terrorism | archived: ref 159 |
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| Boston Herald December 10, 2001 |
A Herald examination of corporate records, intelligence reports and published accounts - as well as interviews with terrorism and foreign policy experts - reveals an extraordinary array of U.S.-Saudi business ventures which, taken together, are worth tens of billions of dollars. They range from deals to pipe oil and natural gas out of former Soviet republics and develop Saudi Arabia's own vast natural gas reserves, to lucrative but rarely talked about arrangements pairing private U.S. military contractors with virtually every branch of the Saudi armed forces. | |||||
| 7 | The reluctant Saudis: Royal family increasingly nervous about keeping grip on power at home | archived: ref 247 |
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| Seattle Times October 29, 2001 |
The United States and Saudi Arabia have sparred over how to respond to terrorism before. The royal family, sensitive to perceptions of Western domination, was irked when the FBI tried to ferry in teams of investigators after the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers, an American military complex in Saudi Arabia, that left 19 U.S. servicemen dead. | |||||
| 8 | King's Ransom: How Vulnerable are the Saudi Royals | ref 44 |
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| New Yorker October 22, 2001 |
The concerns, both in America and in Saudi Arabia, about the security of the fields have become more urgent than ever since September 11th. A former high-level intelligence official depicted the Saudi rulers as nervously "sitting on a keg of dynamite"€that is, the oil reserves. "They're petrified that somebody's going to light the fuse." | |||||
| 9 | The Saudis: Friend or Foe | archived: ref 343 |
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| Wall Street Journal October 22, 2001 |
What kind of ally is Saudi Arabia? To Americans who watch with frustration as the Saudis prevaricate on the use of military bases there, the answer is clear: They aren't acting like allies at all. This frustration is turning to outrage as details emerge of Saudi unwillingness even to run "traces" on the men involved in the hijackings of Sept. 11. Experts in the region, however, suggest that America's problems have their roots in an intense struggle for succession in the House of Saud. | |||||