Did the U.S. Strike a Secret Deal with a 9/11 Terrorist to protect Saudi Arabia and Pakistan?

Those who read my 2003 "WHY AMERICA SLEPT: The Failure to Prevent 9/11" will remember that my last chapter disclosed the details of a so-called "false flag" interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, then thought to be the 3rd ranking Al Qaeda terrorist.  He disclosed information to his interrogators about 3 Saudi Princes and the chief of Pakistan's Air Force.  Not long after the US informed the Saudis and Pakistanis of what he said, all 4 men died, one of unexplained complications from routine surgery, another in a one car wreck, a third 'of thirst' in the desert, and the air chief when his private plane exploded after takeoff.

I may not be much of a believer in government hatched conspiracy theories, but these deaths stretch credulity.

The NYT reported this afternoon that "After 14 years of detention, Abu Zubaydah, the suspected terrorist brutally tortured after his capture in 2002, appeared for the first time at a Guantánamo Bay hearing on Tuesday morning and said he should be released because h…