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Source: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/01/wsaud01.xml
Saudi Princes "Linked" to bin Laden
(Telegraph-UK) David Rennie - Time magazine carries details from a new book alleging that Abu Zubaidah, the leading al-Qaeda terrorist captured in Pakistan last year, was duped into revealing details of support from members of the Saudi royal family. Why America Slept, by Gerald Posner, claims that Zubaidah resisted CIA interrogation, despite the use of "quick-on, quick-off" painkillers and truth drugs. Posner describes how, in an attempt to frighten Zubaidah, he was moved to a fake Saudi interrogation chamber, manned by Arab-American special forces masquerading as Saudi police. "His reaction was not fear, but utter relief," Posner writes. Zubaidah recited telephone numbers for one Saudi prince, informing the fake Saudis the prince would "tell you what to do." The prince died of a heart attack, aged 43, last year. Two other princes named in the book as al-Qaeda paymasters have also died.