US, Saudi Arabia conducted 9/11 attacks together: Pundit

Press TV has conducted an interview with Scott Bennett, a former US army psychological warfare officer, and Michael Lane, founder of the American Institute for Foreign Policy, to discuss attempts made by the United States to cover up Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks on US soil.

New intelligence is now coming out [which shows] that the 9/11 attacks were not just a Saudi Arabian operation, but that the Saudis, Mossad, FBI, and CIA were all participating in the attacks, Bennett told Press TV’s Debate program on Sunday.

A recently declassified part of the 9/11 report regarding suspected Saudi ties to some of the hijackers involved in the terror events revealed that a phone log maintained by an alleged senior al-Qaeda operative, identified as Abu Zubaydah, included the unlisted phone number of a Colorado company associated with Saudi Prince Bandar Bin Sultan as well as the phone number of a bodyguard working at the Saudi Embassy in Washington at the time, CNN reported Friday.

Bennett also said there is the smoking gun that shows that the then president George W. Bush was in an intimate connection with Bandar Bin Sultan and they worked with the Bin Laden family and used the al-Qaeda organization as the scapegoat in the 9/11 attacks.

He further referred to the fact that the US authorities interrogated some Saudi nationals, who were suspects of being involved with the hijackers of two planes, which hit the Twin Towers in New York, but the suspects were released and the Department of Justice did not stop them from flying out of the United States.

According to the analyst, the 28 pages of declassified intelligence about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks support previous debates that Saudi authorities were behind the attacks and both the Bush and the Obama administrations covered up the realities in this respect.

“There is incontrovertible evidence that the Saudis are involved in terrorism and terrorist financing and yet we call Saudi Arabia our closest ally in the Middle East,” he said, warning that the cover-up of the kingdom’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks shows hypocrisy in US policy toward a state sponsor of terrorism, which is “one of the biggest enemies of the United States.”

For his part, Michael Lane ruled out the possibility of the Bush administration’s complicity with other parties in the 9/11 attacks, saying that there is no evidence to support such allegations.

Lane also said the involvement of the Saudi royal family, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan and his wife, in the September 11 attacks, still needed to be investigated.

Four coordinated attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage on the morning of September 11, 2001.

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