Posted on 04/20/2016 7:40:37 AM PDT by TigerClaws
New evidence has come to light of a possible link between Saudi Arabian officials and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, further raising tensions as President Obama travels to the kingdom.
Ghassan Al-Sharbi, a Saudi who became an al-Qa’ida bomb maker, is believed to have taken flying lessons with some of the 9/11 hijackers in Arizona but did not take part in the attacks on New York and the Pentagon that killed 3,000 people in 2001.
He was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and has since been held at Guantanamo Bay. According to a US memo — known as document 17 — written in 2003 and quietly declassified last year, the FBI learnt that he had buried a cache of papers shortly before he was captured.
Document 17 was written by two US investigators examining the possible roles of foreign governments in the attacks. One detail leapt out at them from the papers that Sharbi had tried to hide: his US flight certificate was in an envelope from the Saudi embassy in Washington.
Brian McGlinchey, the activist who uncovered document 17, said: “The envelope points to the fundamental question hanging over us today: to what extent was the 9/11 plot facilitated by individuals at the highest levels of the Saudi government?”
President Obama is expected to meet on Wednesday with King Salman, whose kingdom is under pressure from low oil prices, an emboldened Iran and Washington’s tougher stance. The Saudi government threatened last week to dump $750 billion in US Treasury securities and other American assets if congress passes a bill that would clear a path for the families of 9/11 victims to file lawsuits against the kingdom. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidates, backed the bill, which Mr Obama has signalled he will veto.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the leading Republicans in the race, have warned Saudi Arabia that its relationship with the US must change. “Friends do not fund jihadists that are seeking to murder us,” Mr Cruz said.
Mr Obama also faces calls to release a redacted 28-page portion of a joint congressional report on the 9/11 attacks, produced in 2002 and thought to link senior Saudi figures to the plot. He suggested on Monday that a decision was imminent.
The pages are in a secure room beneath the US Capitol. Congressmen can read them, but are watched to make sure they do not make notes. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, said: “I had to stop every couple of pages ... to rearrange my understanding of history.”
Bob Graham, a former chairman of the US senate intelligence committee, has alleged that Saudi Arabia was the principal financier of 9/11. “The effect of withholding [the pages] has been to embolden Saudi Arabia to be a continuing source of financial and human terror resources,” he said.
Document 17, written by Dana Lesemann and Michael Jacobson, will deepen suspicions. Ms Lesemann is said to have been sacked from the 9/11 commission after she circumvented her boss to access the 28 pages.
Mr Jacobson was the principal author of the 28 pages, and document 17 hints at his suspicions. “How aggressively has the US government investigated possible ties between the Saudi government and/or royal family and the September 11th attacks?” it asks.
The Times
Don’t worry Obama is in Saudi Arabia to apologize
I'm going to have to check with my “diversity panel” before I take an “official” position on this matter of great importance.
I'm toweling off the sarcasm as I write....don't want the moisture to destroy the keyboard.
heh.
Jedi.
I find it extremely alarming our own government, our own government is attempting to seal these documents and prevent the truth from emerging and giving redress to families injured by the 911 attacks.
This is treasonous. Protecting foreign governments against the America people? We’ve lost our government.
I am just going to say this out loud and with no shame, as an American I am superior (morally and intellectually) to anyone from the sandbox (from 90% of the earth for that fact).
The first two words of this article are complete BS.
This is not “new evidence”. It has been known since 9/11/01.
It was obvious at the time that the Saudis were heavily involved, and were probably the primary instigators, although Saddam did have a connection.
I thought at the time that Bush had decided to gain control of Iraqi oil before taking on the Saudis, since the Saudis were prepared to blow up their wells and refineries and leave the world without sufficient energy.
I was wrong. Bush caved to the anti-war fanatics, and he gave the Iraqi oil away to the French and Chinese. It became evident that the Saudis had all the Bushes over a barrel.
We all supported the Iraqi war at the time, which certainly started off well. But it all ended in failure and disappointment, and things are now much worse than they were before in Muslimland.
Once it is proved beyond a shadow of a doubt we take the WHOLE Royal family to Guantanamo. Next: a public auction for their hides(alive) to their enemies. More fun than turning Mecca into glass.
Anyone understand why this is coming out now? The 28 pages have been in Congress’ basement for years. Why are Graham and others speaking out now?
In any case, surely the elites wish this issue had waited a few more years until amnesiac non-judgmental millennials got in full power.
Saudi Arabia is like Pontious Pilate. It is easier for them to help terrorists than risk pissing them off. But they still have to get in bed with the Devil.
If 3,300 Americans die, what is that to them?
Time to do a boycott of Saudi oil. We can produce our own at this point. Create jobs here. Screw funding terrorists and Chi-Coms.
Anyone who has dealt with the Saudis’ in any manner once this comes to light....and it will...(leaky Leahy)...may meet a wrath unseen in modern American history.
Jedi.
The list.
We'll be waiting.
No Musim should be friends with us Kafirs. Allah mentions that in at least 3 places in the Koran, Chapters 3-4-5. Ch5-51 is the most quoted.
Muslims don't murder us Kafirs they kill us if we don't pay the Jizya(protection money) or convert.
Why? Because Allah wants that done, and Muhammad sets the example in the Hadiths to do just that.
The Saudis push the Wahabbi interpretation which is a back to basics movement,which cuts us Kafirs no slack, and doesn't tolerate any Muslim slackers either.
To me it would be remiss for Saudi Arabia not to be somehow involved in killing us Kafirs on 9-11. - Tom
It is hard to believe this news is not being publicized now as a message to Obama.
And then Bush goes to war with Iraq?
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