Is the crown prince, whos the effective leader of Saudi Arabia, equating al Qaeda with Zionists?
AL-JUBEIR: That’s not what he was trying to say here. What he was trying to say is that the objectives of those people who have been most harsh toward Saudi Arabia are the same as the objectives of Osama bin Laden. It doesn’t mean that they committed this crime. BLITZER: Because we listened closely to that tape and we had several Arab linguists listen precisely. And what he clearly said was that he believes 95 percent — not 100 percent, but 95 percent — that the people who undertook this most recent terror attack in Saudi Arabia was not al Qaeda, but were Zionists. AL-JUBEIR: That they were behind them when somebody calls for regime change in Saudi Arabia, as we have a number of people here in the United States when people call for dismemberment of Saudi Arabia. You’ll recall the infamous briefing before the Defense Policy Board where the analyst made the case that we should take Saudi out of Arabia. That is not much different from the mind-set of Osama bin Laden, which wants to also
