The Kingdom's Phone

The Kingdom’s Phone – Dialing 9/11

On April 24, 2002, Saudi Prince Abdullah arrived at Ellington Air Force base in Houston, Texas. He was there to visit President Bush at his Crawford ranch. One person in his entourage was wanted by U.S. law enforcement and two people in his entourage were on a terrorist watch list.


Osama Basnan showed up in Houston at the same time. He met with a high Saudi prince who has responsibilities for intelligence matters and is known to bring suitcases full of cash into the United States. A Houston police report obtained by NEWSWEEK shows that Basnan complained he had been robbed of his Saudi passport and $400. It is dated April 25, the same week the crown prince was in town to visit President Bush.
28 pages were redacted from the 2002 Joint Inquiry that investigated the 9/11 attacks. The report was finished in December 2002.
President Bush redacted the pages showing evidence of Saudi government involvement with the 9/11 hijackers and plotters.

The 28 pages were released on July 15, 2016.


One of the suspects mentioned in the 28 pages is Abu Zubaydah. You may remember him from the President’s Daily Brief (PDF), presented to President Bush on August 6, 2001.

The PDF was titled “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US”. It was approved for release to the public on April 10, 2004. Abu Zubaydah is mentioned twice on the first page.


On August 24, 2001, a foreign intelligence report was issued with the title: “Consideration by Abu Zubaydah to attack targets in the United States”.

President Bush has been widely criticized for ignoring the warnings before 9/11 and not taking appropriate action.


Zubaydah was captured on March 28, 2002. On October 14, 2002, Bush called Zubaydah "one of the top three leaders” in al-Qaeda.

An alternate spelling of Zubaydah is Zubaida. This is the spelling most used in the 28 pages.

Abu Zubaida is mentioned on pages 418, 419, 428, 437, 438, 441, and 442.

Page 428 - The telephone book of Abu Zubaida was retrieved by coalition forces on March 28, 2002. One of the numbers in Zubaida’s book is unlisted and subscribed to by the ASPCOL Corporation in Aspen, Colorado. ASPCOL is the umbrella corporation that manages the affairs of the Colorado residence of Prince Bandar. The number is not listed in any phonebook and is not easily locatable. Due to the sensitivity of the matter, the FBI decided to hold their investigation in abeyance until they received guidance from FBI headquarters.

Page 428 – Another phone number in Zubaida’s book has a link to a home in Mclean Virginia owned by Prince Bandar. (This paragraph is very heavily redacted and much of the information is blacked out.)

Page 429 – Another Virginia phone number was found at a Usama Bin Ladin safe house in Pakistan. It belonged to a man who provided services to a couple who are personal assistants to Prince Bandar.

Osama Basnan, the 9/11 suspect who was in Houston when Prince Abdullah visited Bush, is mentioned in the 28 pages. There are numerous allegations and references to him, but I will highlight only a few of the more significant ones. The alternate spelling (Bassnan), is used in the 28 pages.

Page 426 “Bassnan made a comment to an FBI source after the 9/11 attacks suggesting that he did more for the hijackers than al-Bayoumi did.”

Page 427 – Bassnan’s wife received 31 cashiers checks from Princess Haifa, (Prince Bandar’s wife), totaling $74,000. They were allegedly for nursing services but there is no evidence that nursing services were provided.

Page 427 – Bassnan received at least one check directly from Prince Bandar for $15,000.

Page 428 – FBI assistant director D’Amuro commented on the money that came from Bandar’s wife: “What the money was for is what we don’t know.”

Page 428 – Bassnan hosted a party for the Blind Shaykh at his house.

Page 428 – Bassnan spoke of Bin Ladin “as if he were a god”.

Page 428 – Bassnan stated to an FBI asset that there are already enough Muslims in the United States to destroy the United States and make it an Islamic state within ten to fifteen years.

It should be noted that the money Bassnan received from Bandar and his wife are not just allegations. Proof was found when Bassnan’s residence was searched (page 427).

There was a lack of cooperation between the Saudis and U.S. agencies before and after 9/11. This was documented on pages 437-440.

The Saudi financing of terrorists was discussed on pages 435-436. There was a very similar narrative in a cable (originally marked SECRET/NOFORN) written by Secretary Clinton in 2009. She said “Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, LeT, and other terrorist groups, including Hamas, which probably raise millions of dollars annually from Saudi sources, often during Hajj and Ramadan.”


On July 15, 2016, USA Today published an article titled “Declassified 9/11 pages show ties to former Saudi ambassador” (Prince Bandar)


I had previously found other evidence connecting Prince Bandar and Abu Zubaida. I have not published it before, but I will now.

I found the video by accident. It’s a sidewalk interview between two independent researchers and Robert Baer, the well-known former CIA case officer who was assigned to the Middle East. He has appeared on CNN as an analyst. He's written two best sellers, including "Sleeping with the Devil", revealing a convenient relationship between the Saudi royal family and the United States. His book was censored by the CIA. He has the credentials to know a lot of secrets.

And there he was, on a sidewalk, discussing 9/11. He had just participated in another discussion at the Hammer Museum in LA on October 16, 2008. As he was leaving the event, he allowed two citizens interested in 9/11 to interview him. The interview is in the middle of a video they posted.

After answering several questions, Mr. Baer said something no one had ever heard before. This was years before the 28 pages were released.

He said “Look, Abu Zubaydah, one of the key guys, called Bandar in Aspen right up until the tenth of September, and then started calling him again on the sixteenth of September.”

The interviewers didn’t realize how important this statement was and didn’t ask any follow up questions.

Robert Baer has written extensively about the Saudi royal family, but some of his narrative was censored. He has the credentials to know a lot of secrets. He blurted one out on a sidewalk in LA in 2008 and no one censored him. No one destroyed the video. He made another profound statement on that sidewalk. He said “I’m just talking about the facts. I don’t do conspiracy.”



Robert Baer wrote an article for “Time” in 2007. He said CIA Director Michael Hayden has admitted the CIA destroyed interrogation tapes of Abu Zubaydah. Also in the article, Mr. Baer said Zubaydah had two ATM cards on him when he was captured. One was issued by a bank in Saudi Arabia, with ties to the royal family. Telephone records found in Zubaydah’s house included calls to the United States. The calls stopped on the tenth of September, and resumed again on the sixteenth of September. Those are the same dates he mentioned in the sidewalk interview.


As far as I knew, Mr. Baer had never revealed who Zubaydah was calling in the United States, until that moment on the sidewalk. The Bandar he was referring to is Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. I knew it was him because he had a home in Aspen, Colorado in 2001. It was a 32 room mansion built in 1991 and sold in 2012. Mr. Baer specified “Bandar in Aspen”.

Prince Bandar is a longtime friend of the Bush family, nicknamed “Bandar Bush”. He tutored George W. Bush on foreign affairs. He was very involved with the official business of the Bush administration.

There is a famous photo of Prince Bandar relaxing at the White House on September 13, 2001. He is sitting next to Dick Cheney, across from Condi Rice and President Bush. He has his legs stretched out and looks relaxed. And, according to Mr. Baer, he had just received a phone call from Abu Zubaydah three days earlier, one day before 9/11. The evidence in the 28 pages supports Mr. Baer’s statement and explains how the phone calls occurred.



A 2008 New York Times op-ed, titled “Stonewalled by the CIA”, written by 9/11 Commission Chairmen Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton confirmed that interrogation tapes were never given to the 9/11 Commission. They wanted to question Abu Zubaydah directly, but CIA director George Tenet told them point blank that they would have no such access. Zubaydah’s interrogation tapes were destroyed by the CIA in 2005.


An April 15, 2004 CBS article revealed that Prince Bandar was shown the top secret Iraq war plans.

Here are excerpts from the article:

Journalist Bob Woodward calls his new book, "Plan of Attack," the first detailed, behind-the-scenes account of how and why the president decided to wage war in Iraq.

"Saturday, Jan. 11, (2003) with the president's permission, Cheney and Rumsfeld call Bandar to Cheney's West Wing office, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Myers, is there with a top-secret map of the war plan. And it says, 'Top secret. No foreign.' No foreign means no foreigners are supposed to see this," says Woodward.

"They describe in detail the war plan for Bandar. And so Bandar, who's skeptical because he knows in the first Gulf War we didn't get Saddam out, so he says to Cheney and Rumsfeld, 'So Saddam this time is gonna be out, period?' And Cheney - who has said nothing - says the following: 'Prince Bandar, once we start, Saddam is toast.'"

After Bandar left, according to Woodward, Cheney said, "I wanted him to know that this is for real. We're really doing it."

But this wasn't enough for Prince Bandar, who Woodward says wanted confirmation from the president. "Then, two days later, Bandar is called to meet with the president and the president says, 'Their message is my message,'" says Woodward.

Prince Bandar enjoys easy access to the Oval Office. His family and the Bush family are close. And Woodward told 60 Minutes that Bandar has promised the president that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices in the months before the election - to ensure the U.S. economy is strong on election day.


On April 25, 2004, an Associated Press article outlined the importance of Saudi Arabia in the Iraq war. This article also states that Bandar was shown the war plans. According to the article, some lawmakers have demanded to know why a foreigner (Prince Bandar) was brought in on private war planning.


Here is what can be proven.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney tried to stop the 9/11 Congressional investigation before it started. They wanted NO investigation into the events of 9/11. I documented this on my blog page titled “No Pages”. Their efforts were unsuccessful and there was a Congressional Inquiry.

The 28 pages linking Prince Bandar with Zubaida and Bassnan were redacted from that Inquiry by President Bush in December 2002.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Myers would have read or known what was in the 28 pages. They would have known about the Prince Bandar allegations.

A month later, in January 2003, knowing what they knew, they invited Prince Bandar to review the top secret war plans.

It is possible that some of the allegations had innocuous explanations.

It is impossible that all of them could have been thoroughly investigated and explained in such a short time.

It would have been hard to explain a $15,000 check from Bandar to Bassnan. It would have been hard to explain how Zubaida got the unlisted private number to Bandar’s corporation in Aspen.

No one has ever asked Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Myers why they trusted Bandar after reading the serious allegations in the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry.

They weren’t just protecting the Saudis because they needed them to launch the Iraq war. They trusted an individual 9/11 suspect, Prince Bandar, enough to show him the war plans.

Here are the facts known so far:

Bush and Cheney did not want any 9/11 investigation.

In 2002, evidence showed that Prince Bandar had contact with two 9/11 suspects. Other evidence showed connections between 9/11 suspects and other Saudi government officials, including three Saudi Naval officers.

That evidence was hidden from the public by President Bush.

A month later, Bandar was shown TOP SECRET NOFORN war plans.

Both Bush and Bandar wanted to take out Saddam Hussein.

In 2003, because of Bush administration statements and insinuations, 69% of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks. No evidence has ever surfaced connecting Iraq or Saddam Hussein to 9/11.


Many of you may be thinking that this is the smoking gun proof that inside job conspiracy theorists have been looking for. It may be the proof that Bush allowed 9/11 to happen with the help of the Saudi government.

I think it is the proof. It’s not a conspiracy theory anymore. Everything is documented and cross referenced. Everything fits together like a puzzle. The puzzle has been solved.

We know who was on the Kingdom’s phone on September 10, 2001. It was Abu Zubaydah.

Everyone is still free to deny it, though. Bush and Bandar will.

I only wish there could be some kind of justice for the families of the 9/11 victims.

Comments please.


2 comments:

  1. What we know so far, as reported in the 28 pages release: Abu Zubaydah's phone book contained a number of US phone numbers/ contacts, ones that the FBI noted in their report included ASPCOL, the Colorado entity for the Hala Ranch property holdings of Prince Bandar and an entity named Scimitar Security which provided security services at the ranch.

    There are two corporate entities in the United States (and I could only find these two) called Scimitar Security. The first is in Colorado, incorporated in 1995, and appears to have no ties to terrorists, no ties to the Bandar property and no notable ties of any kind.

    The second Scimitar Security is located in San Diego, was incorporated in 1998 and at one time employed Jehad Serwan Mostafa, currently on the FBI's most wanted list.

    Jehad's father Abdul Halim G. Mostafa is the owner of Scimitar Security. He was quoted in stories shortly after 9/11 due to worshiping at the Al-Madina Al-Munawara mosque where Omar Al-Bouyami had been placed.

    Abdul Mostafa appeared in a small role in the 1999 Mark Wahlberg film "The Three Kings" and produced a 2008 independent film about Muslim identity called MOZLYM.

    Jehad's California security guard license # 1289423 was cancelled in 2006.

    The FBI reports that Jehad Serwan Mostafa has used the alias Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir, which is the name Jose Padilla (recall the FBI foiled Jose Padilla plan based on intel from Abu Zubaydah) had on his fake passport. Sources say as a youth, Jehad met Anwar al-Awlaki when the former Al Qaeda leader worked as an imam at a La Mesa mosque in 2000.

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