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Seymour Hersh: Saudi Arabia Helped To Hide Osama Bin Laden From U.S.

Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says that the Saudi government bribed Pakistan, a U.S. ally in the war on terror, with hundreds of millions in oil money to hide the Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden from U.S. interrogation. The man allegedly responsible for 9/11 was never heard. From AlterNet: Exclusive Interview: Seymour Hersh Dishes on Saudi Oil Money Bribes and the Killing of Osama Bin Laden A wide-ranging interview tied to his new book, “The Killing of Osama Bin Laden.” Seymour Hersh is an American investigative journalist who is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for his article exposing the My Lai massacre by the U.S. military in Vietnam. More recently, he exposed the U.S. government’s abuse of detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison facility. Hersh’s new book, The Killing of Osama Bin Laden, is a corrective to the official account of the war on terror. Drawing from accounts of a number of high-level military officials, Hersh challenges a number of commonly accepted narratives: that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the Sarin gas attack in Ghouta; that the Pakistani government didn’t know Bin Laden was in the country; that the late ambassador J. Christopher [...]