A worrying factor at this early point, according to the retired official, was Saudi Arabia, which had been financing bin Laden’s upkeep since his seizure by the Pakistanis. ‘The Saudis didn’t want bin Laden’s presence revealed to us because he was a Saudi, and so they told the Pakistanis to keep him out of the picture. The Saudis feared if we knew we would pressure the Pakistanis to let bin Laden start talking to us about what the Saudis had been doing with al-Qaida. And they were dropping money – lots of it. The Pakistanis, in turn, were concerned that the Saudis might spill the beans about their control of bin Laden. The fear was that if the US found out about bin Laden from Riyadh, all hell would break out. The Americans learning about bin Laden’s imprisonment from a walk-in was not the worst thing.’
No name. We don’t know if this is solid information or not. We don’t know the specific details of Laden’s journey.
Did Saudi Arabia ask him to leave or did he fear the United States so much he relocated and went into hiding on his own?
The problem with issues like this, is you and I don’t know how much of it is fed to us to fit a profile people want us to buy into.
This unnamed source may be a CIA, NSA, or other intelligence operative. I don’t know who or what he is. Neither do you or the person who is attributing certain theories to him.
I appreciate that you are trying to get to the bottom of things like many others, but do you seriously thing that is even possible?
I’m neither convinced you are right or wrong here. I just don’t know. Did the Saudi King order the taking down of the Twin Towers? I’m no more convinced of that than I am that George Bush was intimately involved in a cover-up.
I’m skeptical about most information I read about 09/11. What I do know for sure is that two aircraft took the Twin Towers down. Everything else I read is of interest, but it’s generally something I file away. It isn’t something I make rock solid determinations on.