On November 1, 2007, former Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar “said Saudi intelligence was ‘actively following’ most of the September 11, 2001, plotters ‘with precision.’ ‘If U.S. security authorities had engaged their Saudi counterparts in a serious and credible manner, in my opinion, we would have avoided what happened,’ he said.”
– Pam Benson, “Ex-Saudi ambassador: Kingdom Could have Helped U.S. prevent 9/11,” CNN, Nov. 2, 2007