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.
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,…