Prince Turki, the Saudi head of intelligence when 9/11 occurred (the new ambassador):
"I met bin Laden five times during the jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan," he told CNN earlier this year. "This is from the mid-80s to 1990. And most of those times were in embassy receptions or in such functions that were held in Islamabad or Peshawar in Pakistan when I was there."
Those meeting occurred when Cheney was buddies with Osama Bin Bush and was giving him all kinds of rocket propelled goodies and giving Saddam all kinds of chemical weapons, yes WMDs, to kill Iranians with.
And there's more recent meetings too. According to the London Times, the prince, the Saudi intelligence chief, apparently met with the other Al Qaeda representatives in Paris in 96 and again with Bin Laden and Mullah Omar in 98 in Kandahar Afghanistan. That would be after the first WTC bombings.
More Prince Turki facts below..
Facts:
- During his 27-year stint as head of Saudi intelligence, Turki met on several occasions (at least five times) with Osama Bin Laden and his lieutenants.
- Prince Turki was originally named in a $1 trillion lawsuit filed by families of the victims of 911.
- This terrorist was never investigated because of, you guessed it, diplomatic immunity and will be running around wilnilly in the US (same reference as above)
- Per Mr Madsen: "the defeat of the South Yemeni government took place in 1994, well over a year after the WTC van bombing in New York, a period of time when Bin Laden was living in Khartoum, benefitting from the largesse of wealthy Saudi businessmen and Royal family members.
So, there it is, an alleged Saudi Al Qaeda financier, who used diplomatic immunity to block an investigation into his doings, is Bush's new plaything. I can see the headlines now when the bombs start going off: "Plame distraction fingered as cause of new FBI intelligence lapse." Timing people. It's all about timing.
So please, when the bombs start going off, everyone should know that it is because Rove outed a CIA agent and her Saudi front company.