Nancy Hayes
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May 13, 2016
But
some officials worry its eventual publication — 15 years after the
assault on New York and Washington — will stir suspicion at a time of
tense ties.
In
December 2002, a year after the attacks, the House and Senate
committees on intelligence published a report into the US investigation
into them.
But
the then president, George W. Bush, ordered that 28 pages of the report
be classified to protect the methods and identities of US intelligence
sources.
Last
month, former Senator Bob Graham said the pages should be made public
and alleged Saudi officials had provided assistance to the 9/11
hijackers.
Graham,
who was the Senate intelligence committee chairman, said the White
House had told him they will decide by June whether to declassify the
pages.
The
issue of alleged — and fiercely denied — Saudi involvement in the
attacks has been brought up again by attempts to lodge a law suit
against the kingdom.
Relatives
of some of the American victims of the hijackers are lobbying Congress
to pass a law lifting Saudi Arabia’s sovereign immunity from liability.
The
28 pages are thought to include a claim that Princess Haifa, the wife
of then Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar, sent money to the hijackers.
Princess
Haifa sent thousands of dollars to Osama Basnan, a Saudi living in San
Diego who befriended 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid
al-Mihdhar.
Another
likely allegation in the missing pages concerns Omar al-Bayoumi, a
Saudi civil aviation official who had been studying in California.
While Saudi Arabia has never been
implicated in the 9/11 attacks, 15 of the 19 hijackers were of Saudi
descent. Moreover, there has long been suspicion about ties between the
royal family of Saudi Arabia to al Qaeda, speculation that has only
intensified as 28 pages of a congressional investigation into the 9/11
attacks remains classified.
As pressure grows on Congress to let
9/11 victims’ families pursue their claims against Saudi Arabia in
federal court, Saudi officials are quickly pushing back.
In a warning to members of Congress,
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir warned lawmakers last month in
Washington that his kingdom would sell $750 billion in U.S. assets.
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Appearing on the Joe Piscopo Show, a New
York radio program, Trump evinced no concern about Saudi Arabia’s
threat to sell off U.S. assets.
“Let ’em sell ’em,” Trump said. “No big deal.”
Trump added: “Hey, look, we protect
Saudi Arabia. We protect them for peanuts. If we weren’t protecting
them, they wouldn’t be there for a week.”
We never have really gotten to the
bottom of 9/11. Regardless of whatever the problem, the answer always
seems to come down to “follow the money”. If the money leads to Saudi
Arabia and contacts in Saudi Arabia – that is certainly a strong
implication of wrongdoing if you ask me. 15 of the 19 hijackers had
Saudi Arabia ties! Come on people, doesn’t that say SOMETHING!? We
should never have been exonerated Saudi Arabia! This is not the first
time Saudi Arabia has bankrolled terrorism and it certainly won’t be the
last. Thanks to Obama, America has joined the ranks of Saudi Arabia in
funding terrorism as well with especially with the Iran Nuclear Deal.
This horror will continue, until we can elect politicians with
principles.
Fade to music by Queen…
“You got mud on your face,
Big disgrace
Somebody better put you back into your place…
We will, we will rock you. Singin’ We will, we will rock you.”
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