New Saudi King Was Major Supporter of Al Qaeda - Wayne Madsen TND Guest Contributor: Wayne Madsen | The new king of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud, the half-brother of King Abdullah, who died in his early 90s from complications from pneumonia, is expected to rule with a more Wahhabist-oriented religious bent and concentrate on limiting cautious political reforms started by Abdullah. Salman is also expected to devote his energies to increasing Saudi national security. Salman’s devotion to Saudi security is hypocritical at best due to his past support for Al Qaeda, including some of the individuals implicated in the 9/11 attack on the United States. It is Salman’s involvement with financing 9/11 and other terrorists that will likely reinforce the Obama administration’s refusal to declassify 28 missing pages from the 2002 Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the intelligence failures surrounding the attack. As the then-governor of Riyadh, Salman’s name likely appears as a big fish in the redacted 28 pages from the Senate report. To continue reading, click here and jump to second paragraph: thenewsdoctors/?p=273872
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 05:29:15 +0000
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