... in this extract at least Zelicow doesn't explain, justify or expand on his cop-out assertion that:


"...it's important to talk about these people as individuals and not under the label as 'Saudi officials...if they were helping al-Qaida, they were not acting as Saudi government officials. They would have been acting as underground rebels within their government.."

Why not? How can he be at all certain that the group was not being directed, funded and protected by one or two top Saudi government officials ?