UAE Royal Family Saved Bin Laden From Death

Directly from Tenet’s 9-11 Commission Testimony:

MR. FIELDING: Yeah. Well, I would appreciate that on behalf of the Commission if you could do that because it seemed that this — when the intelligence was so good, and that by the time the camp was dismantled days and days had passed. So I would appreciate — MR. TENET: There’s also a question, I believe, as to whether bin Ladin was inside or outside the camp — MR. FIELDING: Of course. MR. TENET: — it was a complicating issue in this whole thing — and whether he was there or not. So there’s a second complicating factor here. The third complicating factor here is, you might have wiped out half the royal family in the UAE in the process, which I’m sure entered into everybody’s calculation in all this. But in any event, I would like — I will try and reconstruct the data as best I can, in terms of what I had in my possession at the time.