Saudi king blamed Mossad for 9/11

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Saudi king blamed Mossad for 9/11

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By ARIEL BEN
SOLOMON
08/04/2015

Former US ambassador to Kingdom: This had to have been an Israeli plot. The Mossad must have done
this, (now king) Salman said.
The former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia said in an interview this week that following 9/11,
Saudi King Salman had insisted to him that the Mossad was responsible for the attacks.
One of my first calls was with then-governor of Riyadh... Prince Salman, who is now the king.
His response was very emphatic [that] this could not have been Saudis, we couldnt possibly
have done this, former envoy Robert Jordan said on CNNs Fareed Zakaria GPS.
This had to have been an Israeli plot. The Mossad must have done this, he cited Salman as
saying at the time.
I got the same thing from the minister of interior, Prince [Mohammed bin] Nayef, Jordan
continued. I finally had to bring a CIA briefer out and show some of these princes some
compelling evidence that it, indeed, was Saudis who were the hijackers.

Jordan went on to say that he saw the Saudis as being in denial about the fact that 15 of the 19
hijackers were from their country.
The Saudis eventually altered their position, he said, after al-Qaida bombed three Western
housing compounds in May 2003.
At that point, Crown Prince Abdullah said to me that he understood that they had a problem, that
they would take immediate action to capture or kill the attackers and to treat just as harshly
anyone who gave them comfort or aid or even tried to justify what they did, said the former
ambassador.
In his new book, Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11, Jordan writes that the

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Palestinian issue was often a source of Saudi anger directed at me.

America should be able to resolve this, they told me.
After all, the United States was omnipotent. All Washington had to do was snap its fingers and
Israel would come to heel, do whatever we commanded it to do, he says in the book.

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