According to information posted on the website www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com, Zubaidah's interrogation was designed to trick him into believing he'd been handed over to the Saudis with the idea that fear of their well-known torture techniques would scare him into revealing information. To their surprise, he was relieved to think this, and promptly gave his interrogators, from memory, the personal cell phone numbers of very high ranking members of the Saudi Royal family and said they would be given instructions. Public knowledge of this would expose the relationship between the Saudi govenment and Al-Qaeda. American oil interests (the Bush family) are too dependent on the House of Saud to allow this to happen, therefore the tapes were ordered destroyed.
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On Capitol Hill today, Gen. Michael Hayden, the CIA's current director, appeared at a closed-door hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has initiated an investigation into the CIA's handling of the tapes—and the extent to which the agency kept congressional oversight committees apprised of what was happening with them. The House Intelligence Committee has launched a parallel investigation and is expected to hold a closed-door hearing with Hayden on Wednesday.
Terror Watch, written by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, appears online weekly
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