Adel Al Jubeir, paid House of Saud PR mouthpiece
PBS's "Frontline" program 'The House of Saud':
Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saud/etc/script.html
ADEL AL JUBEIR: And at that point, the crown prince sent a very powerful message to the president, "It is obvious that you have decided to support Sharon, irrespective of what the consequences are to American policy or to your interests or to the interests of your friends. You're a sovereign country. You can do whatever you want. We are now in a position where we have to take actions that serve our interests without any regard to how they may affect your interests."
ADEL AL JUBEIR: And within 24 hours, we had a response from the president to the crown prince, in which the president laid out his vision for the Middle East: two states, shared Jerusalem, just settlement of the refugee issue, in very clear terms. And he said, "But we can only do that if we can stop the violence." The crown prince responded to the president and said, "This is a positive step, and you need to articulate this publicly." And the president agreed to do so two or three days before September 11th.
Note that Bush chose the "Roadmap", after threats from the House of Saud 2 or 3 days before Sept. 11th, 2001.
From: http://english.people.com.cn/200111/25/eng20011125_85275.shtml
He said that before September 11, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who has been running the day-to-day affairs of the world's largest oil exporter since King Fahd suffered a stroke in 1995, sent a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush, explaining that the bilateral relations between the two allies "are at a crossroad" since the U.S. "is not ready to move ahead in finding a successful solution to the Middle East conflict."
The prince also said that President Bush had shown readiness to discuss with Saudi plans to revive the Middle East peace process after he received the "strongly worded letter."
But, I thought that bush had finally made up his mind and announced it publicly in June of 2002, not hastily a few days for 9/11/01?
The "road map" for peace is a plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict proposed by a "quartet" of international entities: the United States, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations. The principles of the plan were first outlined by U.S. President George W. Bush in a speech on June 24, 2002, in which he called for an independent Palestinian state living side by side with the Israeli state in peace. Bush was the first U.S. President to explicitly call for such a Palestinian state. Bush's phrase "road map" later became a popular synonym of the word "plan" in many other contexts.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Roadmap-for-peace