Saudi Connection (updated):

We've diagrammed this situation earlier, but there are a few new items in the lastest New York Times story (Muslim cleric close connection with hijackers, a "facilitator" meeting with the Crown Prince's entourage after September 11) which we include below:



UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times also has an article on the 27* classified pages, and we added those new facts as well: Interior Minister activities, Al Bayoumi an employee of Saudi civil aviation (!) authority. Excerpt:

"If this comes out, it will blow the top off the relations with [the Saudi] government because the American people will just be outraged," said one source familiar with the report.

"People don't know how much is in there and how specific it is," the source said. "The public hasn't gotten anywhere near the meat of it."

*- 27 pages according to the Los Angeles Times, 28 pages according to the New York Times.

FURTHER COMMENT: Much of this information is not new. If you go to our original post of November 2002, you will see that almost all of the details were made public in two Newsweek articles and a Los Angeles Times article (only one Newsweek/MSNBC link is still good). So why the recent fuss? Maybe because there is more to the story, or maybe just because it's in an official report.

posted by Quiddity at 8/01/2003 11:17:00 PM