Posted on 02/05/2015 10:51:42 AM PST by Theoria
A still-classified section of the investigation by congressional intelligence committees into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has taken on an almost mythic quality over the past 13 years — 28 pages that examine crucial support given the hijackers and that by all accounts implicate prominent Saudis in financing terrorism.
Now new claims by Zacarias Moussaoui, a convicted former member of Al Qaeda, that he had high-level contact with officials of the Saudi government in the prelude to Sept. 11 have brought renewed attention to the inquiry’s withheld findings, which lawmakers and relatives of those killed in the attacks have tried unsuccessfully to declassify.
“I think it is the right thing to do,” said Representative Stephen F. Lynch, Democrat of Massachusetts and an author of a bipartisan resolution encouraging President Obama to declassify the section. “Let’s put it out there.”
White House officials say the administration has undertaken a review on whether to release the pages but has no timetable for when they might be made public.
Mr. Lynch and his allies have been joined by former Senator Bob Graham of Florida, who as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee was a leader of the inquiry. He has called for the release of the report’s Part 4, which dealt with Saudi Arabia, since President George W. Bush ordered it classified when the rest of the report was released in December 2002.
Mr. Graham has repeatedly said it shows that Saudi Arabia was complicit in the Sept. 11 attacks. “The 28 pages primarily relate to who financed 9/11, and they point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier,” Mr. Graham said last month as he pressed for the pages to be made public.
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NYT throwing Saudis under the bus to protect Obama and ISIS!
By doing their dirty work and supporting their agenda, power vacuums have been the result in the Mideast. To fill that vacuum, the DC Idiots have been arming training, and financing rebels who promise to friend us. The result is....ISIS.
I don't care if they release the report or not. What I do care about is that our government stops enabling, indeed sowing the seeds for, ISIS and other terrorist groups.
Well, DUH.
From the majority of hijackers being Saudis to the $$$ behind the attacks - Saudi Arabia knew beforehand. Yet with Bush kissing their King and Obama bowing before him, we still don't realize the major role Saudi Arabia played on 9/11.
The Oligarchy likes to keep a lid on negative things being revealed about Saudi Arabia.
I doubt we'll ever see those classified pages, no matter who is president or controls Congress.
Yeah, but he said that before the Shia had a nuclear weapon.
I like the part where the U.S. is attacked on 911, all supported by the Saudis, and Bush invades Iraq...
Yep.
Interesting how the article doesn’t mention this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-iran-taliban-al-qaeda-liable-for-9-11/
Or this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/22/AR2006122200455.html
Yes, that was peculiar. I guess it’s what comes
of trying to kill the president’s daddy. Everyone
paid a heavy price for that. Everyone.
The ISIS group we are dealing with today was formed from the union of Zarqawi’s terrorist group that was based in Baghdad before 2002 and which assassinated Foley of USAID in Jordan in October 2002 - and the group of regime Baathists led by Saddam Hussein’s general al Dhouri, the ace of spades who is still very much alive and who this admin always avoids mentioning, just as they avoid mentioning the Egyptian head of al Qaeda.
How about the part where the Iraqi was captured by Jordan on his way back from al Qaeda’s Malaysian summit and after a search all sorts of things were found in his possessions - phone numbers to the perps of practically every major terrorist attack up to and including 9/11.He was allowed to go on to Iraq after a while, just as was one of the smarter operatives of the terrorist group which bombed the world trade center in 1993, to pick up their paychecks.
Good old Bob Graham, a doddering old political hack even Sean Hannity can make look like an ass. He was all wound up over wmd statements when he thought they were made by W Bush but speechless when told they were actually made by his buddy John Kerry.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209855/posts
As for financing al Qaeda that was al Taqwa- which leads back to Nasruddin, Ahmed Huber and a certain Iraqi billionaire with ties to Antoin Rezko & former Illinois governor Blagojevic .... and an Illinois politician whose got the press by the balls “guess who?”
Are you suggesting with all of the Saudi connections, we invaded Iraq because of the attack on the U.S. on 911?
Nope.
We invaded Iraq for numerous reasons beginning with the fact that it had never cooperated with the terms of the 1991 cease fire.
Oh, I see, so it wasn’t due to 911 attack. OK.
Ya know some openly suggested the Iraq invasion had the real potential of swelling the ranks of terrorist organizations in that entire region. I’d say that’s exactly what has occurred.
The main reason cited was the that Iraq was actively seeking to reconstitute its wmd programs and retaining materials to do so.
Another reason was Iraq had failed to abide by the cease fire and UN resolutions requiring it return some 900 captured Kuwaiti men, women and children in abducted during its invasion of Kuwait. Also it had failed to return Iranian prisoners rom the war with Iran and it was required to promptly return these as well but never did - because it had murdered them after capture and stored the remains which were found only after invasion by the British.
Iraq was also holding an American student in Abu Ghraibh at the time of the invasion and had held him for years since the late 90s; he was freed by invading US troops along with the children of political dissidents that were incarcerated in Saddam’s children’s prisons as punishment for the parents.
Another was Iraq’s meetings with Sudan’s Turabi [?] a nasty fellow also involved with the al Arian bunch in Florida.
Another reason was that Iraq was providing financial encouragement for suicide bombings, including some in which Americans had been killed and wounded.
Another was our inability to confirm the fate of American Captain Speicher.
Another was that Iraq failed to provide an accounting, as required by agreements, of its precursor purchase.
Another was it failed to turn over blueprints and prototypes and other documentation useful for reconstitution of its nuclear program in particular, but its other programs as well, as it was required to do. Instead we were led to these materials after the invasion by Iraqi scientists.
Another was the funding by Iraq of the terrorist group which assassinated Foley and the support from Iraq for the terrorist attack that took the life of a US soldier in the Philippines.
Another was Iraq’s provision of forged documents to al Qaeda.
Another was Iraq’s harboring of the perp from the 1993 WTC bombing.
Another was Iraq was restarting a long range missile program that was forbidden by its own agreements [we spotted the new test stand for the motors and later as I recall those ended up mixed in with tagged material in scrapyards in Europe. ], while not “wmd” the project was forbidden for obvious reasons, and it had progressed quite far on this according to Kay, as well as on drying processes for biologicals.
It was a rather long list all told, but the press was only interested in ready to go stockpiles, the pow issue and precursors and such were too boring.
There was the seldom mentioned one that sanctions were failing and Iraq had successfully bribed officials all over the world with oil vouchers to bust them, and Iraq was outsourcing its research with intent to bring it back home after sanctions were lifted.
Another was Iraq’s history of supporting the PFLP which had attempted to assassinate US officials inside the US.
Another the presence of ANO leader Abu Nidal in Baghdad as a guest.
Another was assassination of dissidents throughout the world including an assassination of an Iraqi-American family in the US.
Training terrorists in explosives, forgery and poisons.
And Qadeer Khan’s network was part of it though I don’t expect we will hear much about that while we need Pakistan’s cooperation in Afghanistan.
Oh, forgot the other one Bush frequently listed but the press never asked about. Blackmail.
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