from page 239 above book excerpt:
There are very unsavory reasons why certain people in the Bush Administration felt political pressure to neuter the right to the fair trial.
Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi brought up in Palestine, was another of hte mantle of Al-Queda miltary operations chief when Mohammad Atef was killed by an American bomb in Afghanistan. More recent reports suggest that he was suffering from a serious mental illness.
unsurprising given that he was badly wounded when captured and mistreated as he was shuttled around the world (Extraordinary rendition style of torture)
Abu Zubaydah had been in U.S. custodya evenlonger then KSM and there may be even more embarrassing consequaence to his appareance in a military commission, if given a fair trial.
In his book, "Why America Slept" by Gerald Posner, he describes how the US set up a fake Saudi detention centre in Afghanistan with two agents posing as Saudi intelligance to pretend that Abu Zubaydah ha been flown to face the supposedly barbaric justice of the Saudi Arabians. They expected Abu to tremble with fear when confronted with the fake Saudis interrogators
HOWEVER, when Abu Z. was confronted by the false Saudis, his reaction (says Posner) was not fear but "utter Relief"
He reeled off telephone numbers he had memorized for Prince Ahmed binSalman, bin Abdual Aziz, a nephew of King Fahd (and racehorse owner whose hore War Emblem won the Kentucky Derby in 2002), (friends of the Bushes and Cheneys)
And to the amazement of the Americans (the two fake saudis), the telephone numbers were VALID.
"He'll tell you what to do" said Abu Z, who described the extensive assistance that the Saudis had given to Al Qaeda.
The final chapter of Posner's book suggests that the Saudis (inevitably tipped off by their friends, the Americans) and possibly working with them; found a solution to prevent the unwanted publicity that these revelations would have entailed, had they caught the light of day. (legally or otherwise)
Mysterious murders??? CIA style?? my note.
Prince Ahmed and two other Saudi royals named by Abu Zubaydah coincidentally died within days of each other, shortly after Abu Zubaydah's intelligence was passed along to the Saudi Govt.
On Juyly 22nd 2002, Prince Ahmed died of a heart attack age 43, it was reported. The very next day, Prince Sultan bin-Faisl bin Turk al Saud was killed in what ws called a high - spped car accident at the age of 41.
The last of these 3 princes, given up in the Intelligence that the fake American operatives obtained from Abu Z,
was Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir expired one week later officially dying of "Thirst" while traveling east of Riyadh.
Perhaps ALL 3 deaths are a coincidence? Perhaps the Saudis were cleaning up their own house without any input from the CIA? Or perhaps the US was behind the assassinations.
7 months later, Posner writes, a 4th person named by Abu Z, Mr. Mushaf Ali Mir, a senior member of the Pakistan govt.
died in a plane crash in clear weather along with his wife and some close confidants.
After 5 years of torture and assassinations a fair and open trial would be likely to result in indictments or impeachment of the officials responsilbe for these illegal acts.
The Bush Adm. always more concerned with domestic publicity then long-term international goodwill and security, may find the temptation to suppress the truth too difficult to resist.
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Bush with his Saudi Royal House best buddies. 2008 March.
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