...old, useless news...the real question now, in 2007, is are the two nations cooperating and consulting with each other NOW to agressively go after militant islamists?

The same old JAZZ???? Hardly...the whole relationship between the bush family and the saudi royals is what we need to know much more about. I laugh that bushie let at least one plane of saudis fly out of the USA right after 911 and may have secured the secret that they may have let up to 5 or 6 planes of them leave. Saudis were in the US taking plane lessons for years and the original plan or a dry run was the July 4th holiday year 2000, folks...EH CLARKE?????

How silly. We all know that al Qaeda was really in Iraq helping Saddam to build up his stash of WMDs.

The Saudis blame rape on short skirts

Why was BUSH reading a book to children and didn't even get up out of his chair when 9/11 happened. The look on his face tells me he KNEW WHAT HAPPENED.

Saudi Arabia continues to keep financing and arming resistance groups in Iraq against American Soldiers and intends to keep it up. On the other hand the CIA has not found any evidence of government support by Iran of attacking or supplying weapons to any groups in Iraq. Anyone see the irony here?

Bush never wanted to prevent 9/11 but rather to use it as an "excuse" to start W W III....

Well the Prince is partly right, the US did 911, not binLadin. binLadin wanted to buy a nuke from the USA to protect Saudi Arabia from Russia, since Afghanistan defeated them. But the Bush CIA refused. So binLadin prevented the Taliban Oil pipline. Enron sunk because of it, and CIA Bush decided to wage his plan. They imploded the WTC, made an excuse for war, invaded Afghanistan, then Iraq. They used Saudi Terrorists to make the case that getting oil from Saudi Arabia is akin to helping terrorists, so they had to invade Iraq.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Scowcroff are the design makers of this war.

More babbling laughable conspiracy theories. Keep it up, it's amusing.

I can't believe the stuff that comes out of people's mouth. Our politicians continue to say that the American voter is smart. Can't proof it by some of the remarks that are printed here.

Enrique

Hey Anna,

The hi-jackers were issued visas by the US consulate in Arabia..

Any "babbling laughable' conspiracy theory I've heard is at least as good as the official Administration conspiracy theory. We don't know what happened, but it certainly isn't what they have told us. So the official theory at least provides a piece of the universe of things we can eliminate from the realm of possibility.

Prince Bandar bin Sultan know what he said is correct and so does, GW Bush. With Bush arrogance and anti-social attitude toward various countries. This man who thought he was God, thought the leaders of other coutries would come falling at his feet, since he was President of the almighty, U. S. and with his "I'm too 'great' to associate the rest of you leaders", he soon found out no one likes an arrogant leader. He found out, also that a non-cooperative, bigheaded, U. S President can be brought down. He rushed headlong into two wars and because no other country would volunteer to help him fight his Choise" wars, he created the COALITION OF THE WILLING" who have since withdrawn their troops. He paid them to enter on his behalf.

The whole thing would be amusing except, the U.S. is rapidly going down the drain pipe!!!!!!!

O.K. The above conspiracy theory has to be the best EVER I've read. Enron? Laughing hard here. Do people really believe this stuff??

wasn't this guy Bush's best friend? I mean they always hung out together, they called him bander bush for goodness sakes. maybe he is right in what he speaks.

Bush's best friend ?? Read up on his life long association with the Carter Family (as in Jimmy) the Peanut Farmer.

Theories are just that theories. I do not know who was behind 9/11, what I do know what was reported as to who took charge of the planes and that a certain group admitted to the most cowardly task that has ever taken place. The cowards are still running and someday will be caught and punished.

I would much rather believe anyone from Saudi Arabia than anyone connected to the Bush administration, especially Clarke.

the US backed Bin Laden against the russians, then the US backed the Northern Alliance against Bin Laden, then 9/11 on the same day he killed the leader of the Northern Alliance. Clearly 9/11 is a revenge act against the US's support for the Northern Alliance.

The exact truth about the past matters LESS than the truth about the present. There IS an Islamo-fascist, terror-oriented plan for Islam to rule, or at least make Islamic, the world in toto. Whether from Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, connected or not so connected, the west must wake up.

The saudis could have been more forthcoming before 9/11,but the "Islamic way is not to tell the Infidel anything" they all want us dead.To tell the truth to a christian or a jew is forbidden by thr Quran,to those islamists lying to us is not a lie,only to another muslim.How could anyone call Islam a great religeon ,when it is a cult of the lowest order.

Sir
Saudi Prince Blames 9/11 on U.S.
Is not right that the 9/11 was transmitted to the CIA and than Mr. Bush was informed of this when he was in school. He did not budge at all at that time then there was the “war drums against the Islamist fundamentalist and the Muslim Religion and Taliban and the terrorists. However, CIA no. They never were blamed. They are always right are they not?
Everywhere there is a cry that Mr. Bush knew about this and like Tsunami, Katrina and the other catastrophes he just ignored the cal. After the event was over, he gave the war drum to march to Iraq on pretext of WMD. Now we know that this too was for oil.
Sir. At the moment, Mr. Bush has made even the Great Britain a small Britain.
I thank you
Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD

If the Prince is being truthful, he should be able to produce the diplomatic communiques that would document warnings.

We know it's bull Prinie-Boy.

GWB,Sr. was toasting Bin Laden's brother at the Washington Ritz-Carlton when the planes hit. Maybe GWB could tell us what the Bin Laden family reaction was when the planes hit.

daddy: You missed the point, but didn't even notice it. It was under Bubba that the intel was not coordinated that Prince is talking about. Bush hardly had time to get much in place before the planes hit here. Bubba had eight years, and did nothing even though the US was hit in NYC, in Kobar Towers, in the African Embassies and in Yemen (USS Cole).

enrique flores and gforehand: You are beacons of sanity in a sea if idiots; keep it up!

What was the first thing built in afghanistan after the US attacked?? remember this is not about oil!!!!

Yeah.. my son does that too. He blames his little brother for the messes that he makes. Its cute when your young, but annoying when thousands of life depend on it.

Ignorant people are the main problem. I new about 9/11 before 9/11;How?, I heard a broadcast that the Saudies feared an emmanant attack was brewing in the world of Terrorist aginst the U.S. Education is the only tool to resolve Terrorism and alot of other problems on this planet. let's do our selves a favor and get some. GOT ED!!!....

ISLAM, is PEACE; Terrorist's are Idiots.
don't be an Idiot. GET ED!!!.....

Im sorry, but if the government knew about the attacks before they happened and could have stoped them; then the truth needs to get out there somehow. But I dont beleive for a second that they did. Mabey there was information that there was going to be an attack and how. I dont think that we knew where and when. I support the war on terror and I dont think that we should pull out now. I do think that wer could have gone to war earlier than we did, because we knew of terrorist threts before 9/11. But there is no way we could have stoped what happened that day

There are hundreds of credible books written by credible people who were ex-CIA assets, ex-FBI, etc. Most of you just read what you've read in history class. Well behold, most if not all of it is a lie. They don't tell you that the Gulf of Tonkin was actually created by the U.S. to start the war, however you can read this on CIA.gov.

So you seriously need to start finding better sources for your informaton other than corporate or government sponsored publications.

Here is a question for you, if the news does not lie to you, why is it on the BBC you will hear about how Prescott Bush attempted a hostile takeover of the U.S. in '33 however on FOX news you hear how Britney spears "did it again."

No offense, but the ones closer to the truth here are the conspiracy theorists.

It's funny because ALL of the evidence is in front of us but most disregard it out of fear. Face it men. You are all children facing your worst fear...

Do you know how many people are willing to give up their freedom for safety? I'm not. Horrible things happen every day. It's called living in the physical world.

I don't believe this administration was behind the 9/11 attacks; however, I do believe they let it happen. There was too much information coming in from multiple sources to be totally ignored.
The attack gave Bush the justification he needed for the already planned invasion of Irag.

The US knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened too... and we also did not respond until AFTER THE FACT!!! AGAIN it was WORLD WAR!

Did Enron, Halliburton and big oil plant the seeds for our 9/11 response 50 years ago? GOD! They are brilliant *and* patient! Once again, there was also a Bush involved... hmmmm. I bet Halliburton helped rebuild after WWII also - And Cheney was even there! It is so clear now. Come on... given 5 random facts and a bucket of seething hatred, anyone can weave a conspiracy theory.

What is going on? Is this a battle between the Islamo-fascists, and the Christo-fascists. Unfortunately Osama seems to has won. The US defeated the Soviet Union not militarily, but economically. With the trillions spent uselessly in Iraq, the US housing market and the US dollar are collapsing along with the US economy, which is no longer sustainable.

I blame Al Gore and Global Warming for the 911 tragedy. Or maybe I should blame the Jews? or the Blacks? or the illegal aliens? Or should I blame the N word and demon rum? It seems to me that something should be blamed for everything that doesnt go quite right.

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This is a serious statement coming from the Prince who persuaded his uncle, the then King Fahad of Saudi Arabia, of Saddam's (unsubstantiated, using fake satellite photos of supposedly Iraqi tanks poised at the Kuwaiti-Saudi border)imminent plan to attack the western oil fields thus allowing Saudi Arabia to become a base and participant within the coalition of the willing in the Kuwait war.
He was also instrumental and an advocate of the 2nd attack on Iraq in 2003 believing ardently in(or going along with) America's lies including Alqaida's supposed presence there as an excuse.

Why he would make such a comment and be contradited so openly by a senior American official is perplexing. Is there perhaps a mismatch of views between the America-phile Prince and his American friends about what comes next in the way of war?
Let us not forget that America has a short attention span when it comes to friend and foe alike; see what is happening to America's Gen. Musharraf, only a couple of weeks ago he was being lauded asAmerica's greatest ally in the fight against terror and Alqaida and presently America with Britain running behind are openly calling into doubt his actions and credibility. More audacious perhaps is that both are taunting him about the lack of freedom and democracy in Pakistan!!!Hello???

The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on 23 January 1980, which stated that the United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf region.

Cheney was looking for a reason to invade Iraq. He did not have those secret meetings with those oil men to go into Afghanistan!

Cheney knew of the attacks in August, but ignored the info for an excuse to ivade Iraq. He held those secret meetings with oil men for the purpose.

Never mind, you wont use my reply, anyway,I tried several times.

You truthers are quite LITERALLY insane! If you have ever dealt with any sophisticated aspects of criminal law, you would realize that even small, tacit conspiracies are very hard to keep hidden. But huge, far reaching ones, are simply impossible to pull off. The more people and the more moving parts involved in any conspiracy, the greater the odds it will be discovered. A mass conspiracy on the scale of 9/11 could not be accomplished without leaving a mile long trail of hard evidence. I have read most of what you insane truthers call evidence and when you review it with an open mind you see is noting but the conjecture, speculation and suppositions of a group of paranoids.

The truthers are the same sorts of wackos who beleive in some grand "Area 51" conspiracy. It makes perfect sense: the U.S. Government can prevent anyone from discovering whether an Alien race has ever visited the U.S. but it can't run the post office efficently or manage game and wildlife or balance a budget>

I think Bill Collecters are Terrorists.

Nice try Bandar Bush. It does help keep the 9/11 lie alive, as if the Saudi highjackers were ever involved.

We now know, Bush/Cheney are looking to blow the island of Newpoppy out of the ocean if they don't come clean on the mass of collected coconuts being held on a secret beach. And the folley goes on!

Where is Jan 20, 2009?

The U.S made some mistakes previous to 9/11 it is easy to feel your un touchable when your a major power in the world but for the Saudies to say they were tracking these terrorists tends to make you wonder just how much the Saudies knew before this happened if they were as they say tracking these people surely they had a very good idea of what there plan was and did nothing to stop them.

it amazes me how many stupid people there are out there.....stop thinking the president is to blame for everything....he is not......you need to go back to school.....read the constitution and you will learn that the president is not as powerful as "you" give him credit for ......he is not given the power to make 9/11 happen.....wake up morons!

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