Saudi admits to contacts, money from September 11 hijacker

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Saudi admits to contacts, money from September 11 hijacker

55 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Saudi detainee has admitted he communicated with
the lead hijacker before the September 11, 2001 attacks and was told by
other top Al-Qaeda figures that an operation was imminent.

But Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi denied he financed the Al-Qaeda teams that
commandeered four airliners, flying them into the World Trade Center, the
Pentagon and a rural field in the deadliest attack ever on US soil, according
to the transcript.

"In the beginning it was a surprise to me," Hawsawi said, describing his
reaction to the attacks at a March 21 military hearing in Guatananamo Bay,
Cuba. "It was mostly a surprise to me."

According to a transcript of the closed door proceeding to review his status
as an "enemy combatant," Hawsawi said he received 17,280 dollars on the
eve of the September 11 attacks from lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and
another hijacker Waleed Al-Saheri.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070329/wl_afp/usattacksguantanamo_070329171906

[MsKandice01]

1. Hmm...does anyone else find all of these sudden confessions fishy?

Especially with all the trouble that Bushco is having right now?

Pardon my cynicism but I call bullshit.

[JuniperLea]

2. Yep

Everything out of them is fishy now. No credibility and no sense of timing. Idiots blew it big.

[noel adamson]

4. More specifically Gonzales who...

...signed off on using torture as a way of extracting whatever statements they desired someone to make. The firings of the 8 attorneys is certainly in the same vein but there is something more sinister about this and I hope their bringing it forward now will blow the whole torture thing up in their faces. They have not only disgraced us all by this policy but have created great suffering, not just in their torture chambers but around the world, and subverted the real intelligence gathering process to a point I doubt it has any use other than propaganda such as this any more.

[The Stranger]

7. The military is TORTURING the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

They will admit whatver the fuck you torture them into admitting.

[treestar]

3. Isn't it amazing how the leak of this transcript as is just so happens

will not damage national security?

:sarcasm:

[EFerrari]

5. What a bunch of cR@P!

[Parche]

6. 9/11

And I thought the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Cupid, and a pet goat were piloting those planes!!
:sarcasm:

[daleo]

8. Saudi admits to contacts, money from 911

So, why did the chimp&poodle choose to invade Afghanistan and Iraq then?