The Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington, D.C., has been promoting the work of Natana DeLong-Bas, a professor at Brandeis University, according to Steven Stalinsky of the Middle East Media Research Institute (in the context of an overview of the conspiracy theories abounding in the Arab media).
The London daily Asharq Al-Awsat recently interviewed DeLong-Bas while she was vacationing in Saudi Arabia. She claims that there is no evidence connecting Bin Laden with 9/11, and that Saudi Wahhabism is not a radical form of Islam. Campus Watch features this disturbing interview, including the following excerpt:
DeLong-Bas: “I think that the Western media and the world have given Osama bin Laden more weight [than he has in reality] and exaggerated in depicting the danger he poses. Likewise, I do not find any evidence that would make me agree that Osama bin Laden was behind the attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. All we heard from him was praise and acclaim for those who carried out the operation.”