Saudi royal wanted to recruit flying savvy Saudi
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A member of the US military mans one of the guard posts at sunrise at Camp Delta, part of the US Detention Center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AFP)
A prisoner at the United States’ Guantanamo Bay says he had been offered -- via a “religious figure” -- by a member of the Saudi royal family to be part of violent extremist acts in the US, which included learning to fly a plane, before the September 11 attacks occurred in 2001.
According to Press TV, in redacted transcripts newly released by the Pentagon Periodic Review Board, Ghassan Abdallah al-Sharbi is quoted as saying that the figure used the term “your highness” during a telephone conversation just before offering to recruit him.
The revelations comes shortly after the US Congress approved a bill allowing the 9/11 victims to sue Saudi officials for their role in the attacks.
US lawmakers released 28 secret pages of a congressional investigation earlier, in which several suspicious connections were outlined between the 9/11 hijackers and the Saudi royal family; however, no definitive comment was made about the Saudi involvement.
The Periodic Review Board, tasked with assessing whether Guantanamo prisoners should be freed, released the transcript on Thursday, the Associated Press reported Saturday.
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