Zubaydah’s account.
Al Qaeda detainee Abu Zubaydah is said to have told US investigators of extensive connections between the terrorist group and both Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in a new book reviewed in Time. (*) Gerald Posner’s Why America Slept will contain the troubling allegations that those two US allies had paid Al Qaeda extortion money to protect themselves and knew the date of the 9/11 attacks, but not many more details.
The book is likely to be used by those who would like to disrupt the War on Terrorism. Since 9/11, both the Pakistani and Saudi governments have taken important steps against terrorists. The clearest evidence of such steps are the terrorist attacks that Al Qaeda has carried out on Pakistani and Saudi soil since 9/11. They are not our enemies. They may need to take yet more steps, however.