Editing Gerald Posner (section)

=== ''Why America Slept'' ===
In 2003 Random House published Posner's ''Why America Slept'', which discusses the conspiracy of the [[al-Qaeda]] terrorists who were responsible for the [[September 11, 2001, attacks]]. In the book, Posner claims that Prince [[Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]] had ties to al-Qaeda and advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. This assertion was strongly denied by Prince Ahmed's family, who pointed out that he in fact loved the U.S., spent time at his home there, and invested heavily in the U.S. horse racing industry.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} Prince Ahmed, two other Saudi princes named by Posner, and the chief of the Pakistani Air Force all died within days of each other from a blood clot after a simple operation, a car wreck involving only one vehicle, dehydration in the desert and a sabotaged helicopter explosion.<ref>{{cite news |title=Confessions of a Terrorist |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,480226,00.html |magazine=Time |date=August 31, 2003 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="hnn.us">{{cite web|url=http://hnn.us/article/1680|title=Interview with Gerald Posner: Why America Slept|access-date=October 6, 2016}}</ref> Three of the men were in their forties, and one in his twenties. In ''Why America Slept'', Posner became the first journalist to reveal the details of a U.S. interrogation against one of the highest-ranking al-Qaeda suspects caught to date.<ref name="hnn.us"/> ''Why America Slept'' reached No. 2 on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pkarchive.org/personal/NYTBestSeller4.html|title=The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page|access-date=October 6, 2016}}</ref>