CIA Agents Told Not To Track Militants In Saudi Arabia

CIA Agents Told Not to Track Militants in Saudi Arabia

http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/4108160/

7/26/2007

Cooperativeresearch - In the wake of the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia (see June 25, 1996), the Saudi government continues to stonewall about their knowledge of radical militants in the country. Official inquiries about bin Laden go unanswered and the Saudis give no help to a US probe about the bombing. But often the US does not even ask the Saudis questions for fear of upsetting the Saudi government. Former US officials will later claim that even after the bombing, the CIA instructed officials at its Saudi station not to collect information on Islamic extremists in Saudi Arabia. US News and World Report, 12/15/2003 It is not known how long this policy will continue, but there is evidence it continues until 9/11. In August 2001, former CIA agent Robert Baer will attempt to give the CIA a list of hundreds of al-Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, but the CIA will show no interest in it. Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers will reportedly come from Saudi Arabia.