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Shenon, 398–.

7

Bandar delight/posted:

press statement, 7/22/04,

www.saudiembassy.net

. Prince Bandar’s own name and that of his wife, Princess Haifa—whose name featured in an intriguing part of the investigators’ work, described later, in the Notes to Ch. 33—made fleeting appearances in the Report’s endnotes, but not in the text (CR, 482n66, 498n123, 557n27, 563n19);

8

“no evidence”/“problematic”/“a commitment”:

CR, 171, 371–;

9

Khilewi/“A Saudi citizen”:

Middle East Quarterly

, 9/98, & see

WP

, 8/25/94,

New Yorker

, 10/22/01;

10 Khalifa: see Ch. 20 and related Notes, “In re search of luggage and personal belongings, Khalifa v. U.S,” 3/6/95 cited in ed. Berger, Khalifa, “Top al Qaeda Fundraiser Dead,” www.counterterrorismblog.org.

11 limousine/?“high-ranking”/?Prince Sultan: Anonymous, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes, Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 2002 [author was in fact Michael Scheuer], 138–, Lance, Triple Cross, 166, “Mohammed Jamal Khalifa: Life & Death Secrets,” INTELWIRE. Philippine Daily Inquirer, 8/11/00. The authors are unaware of any response by or on behalf of Prince Sultan to the report that he welcomed Khalifa home. Nor have they been able to establish that Khalifa did carry a diplomatic passport.

12 “Since 1994”/“ ’96 is the key”: New Yorker, 10/16/01;

13 Paris meeting/protection money: Complaint, Thomas Burnett et al. v. al Baraka Investment & Development et al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, pt. 1080, Trento, 306–, Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, NY: Plume, 2004, 99–;

14 Kerrey: LAT, 6/20/04;

15 “It’s a lovely”: transcript, Frontline: “Saudi Time Bomb,” www.pbs.org;

16 Turki recalled: Time, 8/31/03, int. Turki, OnLine NewsHour: Inside the Kingdom, 1/21/02, www.pbs.org, Lacey, Inside the Kingdom, 208–, 364, Wright, 266–, 288–, Anthony Cordesman, “Saudi Security & the War on Terrorism,” Center for Strategic & International Studies, 4/22/02, Bergen, 240;

17 Others say two trips: Rashid, 48 & see LAT, 6/20/04;

18 Khaksar/deal: Guardian, 3/2/03, NYT, 3/24/09 & see WP, 1/15/06;

19 Turki deny: MSNBC, 9/5/03;

20 met with OBL: Reeve, 194—citing interview with U.S. intelligence source;

21 “at least two”/“The deal was”: U.S. News & World Report, 1/6/02;

22 named the two: Henderson, formally a journalist with the BBC and the Financial Times, later named Naif and Sultan in this connection in articles in The Wall Street Journal and in a paper published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The authors are not aware that Prince Naif or Prince Sultan has commented on the allegation (WSJ, 8/3/05, “After King Abdullah: Succession in Saudi Arabia,” Policy Focus 96, 8/09);”hundreds”/“Saudi official”: int. & corr. Simon Henderson, WSJ, 8/12/02.

23 7,000: WSJ, 2/15/11;

24 “They would go out”: MSNBC, 9/5/03 & see WP, 7/19/07;

25 “We’ve got”: U.S. News & World Report, 10/11/98;

26 “an interminable”/“Your Royal Highness”: Tenet, 106–;

27 Gore/“The United”: CR, 122.

28 “never lifted”/clerics: Baer, See No Evil, 33. The two clerics were Salman al-Awadah and Safar al-Hawali (National Review, 3/11/03, Erik Stakelback, “The Saudi Hate Machine,” 12/17/03, www.investigativeproject.org);

29 “the Saudi government”: Report, JI, 110;

30 “As one of”/“foreign enemy”: Scheuer, Marching Toward Hell, 72, 15;

31 “You’ve got to be”: Wright, 238.

32 “All the answers”: Brisard & Dasquie, xxix. The O’Neill conversation was with Jean-Charles Brisard, who began investigating terrorist finances for French intelligence in 1997. After 9/11, he became a lead investigator for the legal firm Motley Rice in connection with the civil action brought by 9/11 victims’ families against a list of Saudi-based Islamic charities, a number of financial institutions, and several members of the Saudi royal family. He provided written testimony to the U.S. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs in 2003 (ints. Jean-Charles Brisard, Written Testimony, Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, 10/22/03, www.banking.senate.gov, Brisard & Dasquie, xxvii–, xxi).

33 longtime head: Prince Turki had resigned as GID chief, after a quarter of a century, just ten days before 9/11. The reason for the resignation remains unclear. Turki’s departure was the more striking, reportedly, because he had been confirmed in his post as recently as the end of May (Simon Henderson, “A Prince’s Mysterious Disappearance,” NPR, 10/22/10, Hamel, 237).

34 “At the instruction”: Arab News, 9/18/02. On another occasion, in a 2010 CNN interview, Prince Turki said much the same. “From my previous experience, there is a continuous exchange of information between the CIA and the Saudi security agencies” (CNN, 11/17/10);

35 GID/U.S. understanding: e.g., Cordesman, “Saudi Security”;

36 specifically/“What we told”: USA Today, 10/16/03, Salon, 10/18/03;

37 Bandar hinted: transcript of int. Bandar, Frontline: “Looking for Answers,” www.pbs.org;

38 Abdullah now king: Abdullah had succeeded to the throne in 2005, on the death of his long-ailing and incapacitated half-brother King Fahd;

39 “Saudi security”: ABC News, 11/2/07, CNN, 11/2/07;

40 “We have sent”/British deny: John Simpson int. of King Abdullah, BBC News, 10/29/07, CNN, 10/29/07;

41 denial: Wright, 448;

42 silence: Scheuer, Marching Toward Hell, 72–;

43 “There is not”: USA Today, 10/16/03.

44 Turki stood by/Badeeb: Wright, 448, 310. A Saudi security consultant, Nawaf Obaid, also told author Lawrence Wright that the terrorists’ names were passed to the CIA station chief in Riyadh. Wright believed Turki’s 2003 account, and indicated in a New Yorker article that the CIA had