'Why America Slept': Conspiracy of Silence. Gerald Posner, who has built his career on debunking conspiracy theories, proposes one to explain the the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. By Eric Lichtblau. [New York Times: Books]

Relying on two unnamed government sources to provide new information about the intelligence gleaned from the interrogation, Posner writes that C.I.A. interrogators manipulated the injured Zubaydah's pain medication to wear down his defenses. They tricked him into believing he was in Saudi custody -- and were then shocked to hear what a relieved Zubaydah finally had to tell them. He instructed them to call a senior member of the ruling Saudi family, Posner writes, and gave them a phone number from memory. ''He will tell you what to do,'' Zubaydah said. He went on to tell his interrogators that bin Laden had struck a deal in the late 1990's to gain the blessing and support of top Saudi leaders in exchange for assurances that his holy war would spare the Saudi kingdom. This testimony, an American investigator says, was ''the Rosetta stone of 9/11.'' Still more intriguing, three of the Saudi leaders whom the prisoner named as allies (including Prince Ahmed bin Salman, probably best known to Americans as the owner of the Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem) wound up dead within a week of one another in three separate incidents; a Pakistani military official also named by Zubaydah was killed seven months later in a plane crash.

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FI: Raikkonen suffers setback. Kimi Raikkonen crashes during practice for the Japanese GP as the Schumacher brothers set the pace. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]

Raikkonen, starting eighth, has to win in order to win the championship, while Schumacher, starting fourteenth, only has to place eighth to win it. Montoya and Barrichello, starting second and first respectively, want to win this race badly. Interesting end of a season...

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