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    ‘20th Hijacker’ Says Members of Saudi Royal Family Funded al Qaeda

    Today’s New York Times reports on “highly unusual testimony inside the federal supermax prison,” where Zacarias Moussaoui is serving a life sentence. He’s the so-called “20th hijacker,” who was in jail on immigration charges when his co-conspirators conducted the attacks of September 11th.

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    By Warren Olney • Feb 4, 2015 • 1 min read

    Today’s New York Timesreports on “highly unusual testimony inside the federal supermax prison,” where Zacarias Moussaoui is serving a life sentence. He’s the so-called “20th hijacker,” who was in jail on immigration charges when his co-conspirators conducted the attacks of September 11th. Now he has implicated the Saudi Royal Family in planning for the attacks. Scott Shane is the reporter.

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      Scott Shane

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