Guantanamo Prisoner Says Saudi 'Royal' Involved In Terrorism
World | Associated Press | Updated: September 17, 2016 13:37 IST
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Guantanamo Prisoner Says Saudi 'Royal' Involved In Terrorism
US military, arrives at the closed Camp which was used as the first detention facility for terrorists.
MIAMI: An accused al-Qaida bomb-maker who went to college in Arizona told military officials at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he believed an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family was part of an effort to recruit him for violent extremist acts before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a newly released transcript.
Ghassan Abdallah al-Sharbi said a religious figure in Saudi Arabia used the term "your highness" during a telephone conversation with a man, just before urging al-Sharbi to return to the US and take part in a plot against the US that would involve learning to fly a plane.
The Sept. 11 commission found there was no evidence to indicate that the Saudi government as an institution or Saudi senior officials individually had supported the attacks, and the kingdom's government has consistently denied it had any role in the plot.
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