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9/11 Commissioner and Co-Chair of Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 Say in Sworn Declarations that Saudi Government Linked to 9/11
Two former senators – one a 9/11 Commissioner, the other the co-chair of the joint Congressional inquiry into 9/11 – state in sworn declarations that the Saudi government backed the 9/11 attack.
The New York Times reports:
For more than a decade, questions have lingered about the possible role of the Saudi government in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, even as the royal kingdom has made itself a crucial counterterrorism partner in the eyes of American diplomats.
Now, in sworn statements that seem likely to reignite the debate, two former senators who were privy to top secret information on the Saudis’ activities say they believe that the Saudi government might have played a direct role in the terrorist attacks.
“I am convinced that there was a direct line between at least some of the terrorists who carried out the September 11th attacks and the government of Saudi Arabia,” former Senator Bob Graham, Democrat of Florida, said in an affidavit filed as part of a lawsuit brought against the Saudi government and dozens of institutions in the country by families of Sept. 11 victims and others. Mr. Graham led a joint 2002 Congressional inquiry into the attacks.
As we noted last year:
The Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, previously stated that an FBI informant had hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House (confirmed here).
Today, Graham called for a new 9/11 investigation. As Raw Story notes:
Graham on Monday called on the U.S. government to reopen its investigation into 9/11 after a report found that links between Saudi Arabia and the hijackers were never disclosed by the FBI to the 2002 joint Congressional intelligence committee investigating the attacks.
“In the final report of the congressional inquiry, there was a chapter related primarily to the Saudi role in 9/11 that was totally censored, every word of the chapter has been withheld from the public,” Graham said on MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show.
“Some of the other questions we ought to be asking are if we know that the Saudis who lived in San Diego and now apparently in Sarasota received substantial assistance, what about the Saudis who lived in Phoenix, Arizona? Or Arlington, Virginia? … What was happening in those places?”
“I believe these are questions for which there are definitive answers, but the American people and largely their elected representatives have been denied that information.”
The Times continues:
His former Senate colleague, Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a Democrat who served on the separate 9/11 Commission, said in a sworn affidavit of his own in the case that “significant questions remain unanswered” about the role of Saudi institutions. “Evidence relating to the plausible involvement of possible Saudi government agents in the September 11th attacks has never been fully pursued,” Mr. Kerrey said.
Their affidavits, which were filed on Friday and have not previously been disclosed, are part of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit that has wound its way through federal courts since 2002. An appellate court, reversing an earlier decision, said in November that foreign nations were not immune to lawsuits under certain terrorism claims, clearing the way for parts of the Saudi case to be reheard in United States District Court in Manhattan.
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The Saudis are seeking to have the case dismissed in part because they say American inquiries — including those in which Mr. Graham and Mr. Kerrey took part — have essentially exonerated them. A recent court filing by the Saudis prominently cited the 9/11 Commission’s “exhaustive” final report, which “found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi individuals funded” Al Qaeda.
But Mr. Kerrey and Mr. Graham said that the findings should not be seen as an exoneration and that many important questions about the Saudis’ role had never been fully examined, partly because their panels simply did not have the time or resources given their wider scope.
Terry Strada of New Vernon, N.J., whose husband died in the World Trade Center, said it was “so absurd that it’s laughable” for the Saudis to claim that the federal inquiries had exonerated them.
Unanswered questions include the work of a number of Saudi-sponsored charities with financial links to Al Qaeda, as well as the role of a Saudi citizen living in San Diego at the time of the attacks, Omar al-Bayoumi, who had ties to two of the hijackers and to Saudi officials, Mr. Graham said in his affidavit.
Still, Washington has continued to stand behind Saudi Arabia publicly, with the Justice Department joining the kingdom in trying to have the lawsuits thrown out of court on the grounds that the Saudis are protected by international immunity.
As we’ve repeatedly noted:
9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that “There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn’t have access . . . .” He also says that it might take “a permanent 9/11 commission” to end the remaining mysteries of September 11
Indeed, while everyone remembers the false allegations about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, most forget that the other primary justification for the war was the false linkage between Iraq and 9/11.
The failure to really investigate 9/11 led us into a disastrous war … which has virtually bankrupted our country.
Unfortunately, the endless wars in the Middle East and North Africa are about oil, not national security (and see this).
So we have idiots like MSNBC talking head Joe Scarborough saying that – even if the Saudi government backed the 9/11 attacks – Saudi oil is too important to do anything about it:
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That may explain why Bush Admin never quite seemed to be able to nail Bin Ladin.
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Once again interference by the Injustice Department intervening on behalf of the PERPETRATORS is preventing proper discovery of truth and high crimes committed by our nation in collaboration with a foreign power.
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The Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, previously stated that an FBI informant had hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House (confirmed here).
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It is worth noting that the Truthers have been right all along.
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Still Washington has continued to stand behind Saudi Arabia publicly, with the Justice Department joining the kingdom in trying to have the lawsuits thrown out of court on the grounds that the Saudis are protected by international immunity
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Now both the Bush and Obama administrations are involved in a cover-up of 9/11.
Senator Bob Graham has represented my State honorably and is one of the few politicians that I have respected over the years. I would add that both of these men deserve our support in pursuit of the truth of 9/11. The truth of 9/11 and the intentional collapse of our economy along with its subsequent bailout are inextricably linked,imo.
Yes, but who controls who gets elected and therefore who both administrations are beholden to? The JEWS that's who! AND the report doesn't say that THE jews and House of Saud weren't in it together or EVEN that the Al Saud family isn't not not jewish themselves!!1!
But! Since it's the jews who control the media and the government then why would they let this PRESS release be released?! To deflect suspecion into THEMselves. We have no evidence that they aren't doing this. And if we have no evidence of it, given that the jews control such evidence, it must BE the truth!!eleven!!1!
/sarc
...we all know the foreign and domestic hand of the New World Order road to ''U.N.Peace''. The Suicide Vampire Squid of the Graet Wal Mart of China is driving an Accord to Jerusalem. That's ''the fact Jack'', and there is no avoiding impact. The market is set in place, the forces are in position and ...well, it's that time again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYnz5LpLFn0
Bldg 7 simply omitted from official report.
And the Urban Moving Systems dudes cheering on the Jersey side? Israeli agents released and repatriated.
How about anti-Zionist? PNAC principals are traitorous Zionist fanatics willing to sell out US.
To paraphrase Pacino, our true enemy has yet to reveal itself.
You have tape of them cheering? Oh that's right, they were "dancing and cheering"
Oh wait, they're jews, they're mossad, they're israeli, so they're automatically guilty of everything. No evidence needed.
Oh silly me, they had box cutters and the moving thing was a cover-up so they caused the WTC to come down because um they um had box cutters just like the guys on the planes.
Well, that's all the evidence I need as well as like tens of thousand of people in New Jersey who were watching the towers from somewhere.
Perhaps you can remind me of the probable cause and connection?
Stop with the logic. This is ZH and we're talking about Jews!
No evidence required.
(This doesn't apply to everyone of course.)
ff
you fakefuck, how can you even still show up here with your hole fuckin falsefront showin like fingerfuckin yourself in public
what purpose do you serve . . .
Handlers from Oceania manipulate non state actors from disputed zone into attacking state assets in Oceania and frame Eastasia.
It has ever been thus.
But Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia... right? Right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4zYlOU7Fpk
wait, I thought you told us bush and cheney did it with thermite bombs.
Now, its the suadis?
Damn man, make up your mind
Two distinguished Senators offer clear evidence of a continuing cover-up(both administrations) and you cite unrelated scientific theory in rebuttal.
Are you unfamiliar with the concept of multiple charges some of which can be proven given proper discovery but others ultimately dismissed?
Two distinguished senators:
Yeah, right. Kerry backed Hillary Clinton and has made a fortune from insider trading. Grahaem did ok for himself, too: his net worth is reported to be between $7.35 million and $31.7 million
By the way, Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs reported extensively on the Saudi connection to 9/11 three years ago. People shrug them off as being "islamophobes" now Kerry and Grahaem come along and, oh well, its fine.
Yes.
That's how prosecutors get innocent people thrown in jail while padding their resumes.
No one ever goes to them and say's...look how many charges were dismissed that you brought...why, you must be an incompetent prosecutor.
in this case an investigation by our government has been stymied by our government. no defendant is asserting a fifth amendment right and your argument of prosecutors flinging feces into the fan is not yet relevant. If some individuals within our government past or present want to lawyer up let them do so individually not under the protection of executive privilege.
hilarious...now we are calling the 9/11 commission members "truthers" in an effort to conceal what Paul Harvey would say is "the rest of the story."
I wonder if Ron Paul would endorse further inquiry into 9/11 and any subsequent cover-ups...
Cui Bono?
Somethings fuckin fishy about it, at the very least there were people in govt who knew it was coming and let it happen.
Isnt that still a capital offence?
SEE: Pearl Harbor
Gulf of Tonkin
USS Maine
SS Lusitania
Misdirection is the Mother's Milk of TPTB.
I'm actually surprised that I read through all the comments and unless I missed it I didn't see any comments about the absurdity of this "news analysis". Weren't all these same types foaming at the mouth to attack Iraq on zero evidence? And when Saudi Arabia is implicated their answer is (I'm paraphrasing cause I couldn't stand to replay it): "Well the Saudis are our gas station attendents, so I guess we just want to stick our head in the sand and forget about it". And then they all looked around at each other and that's what they agreed: "yeah, some things you just don't want to know".
Sick.
Which isn't my way of saying that I want to attack Saudi Arabia. I'd just like some "news" and it not be an extension of Washington DC.
It's no wonder I haven't owned a TV in 15 years.
Also, I did a search in Google News and didn't see anything about the Isrealis bombing Iran as a few people posted. It'll be interesting to see what happens with this "story".
any country that has lots of oil will eventually be connected with the 9/11 attacks. be patient.
The Saudi government might have had some prior knowledge.
But let's not fool around:
The 911 operation was a masterpiece in logistic planing and execution by the M@SSAD !!!
Go and look up the movie: "911 Missing Links"
The Saudis and Israel have a lot of common goals - so there is no contradiction whatsoever.
You are right. These headlines are all about deflecting attention that might be put on the Mossad connection. Shell game...smoke and mirrors.....right and left hand.....et al.
Interesting that at the same time tons of evidence against the 9/11 party line is beginning to come together in a meaningful way, talk of a new coming "event" is also growing. No matter what evidence comes out now- a decade later- one dirty nuke blown up over a major U.S. city will end all notions of needing 9/11 truth. But that may well be the plan. Lies have a shelf life. When expiration approaches, the liars have only one option - a bigger lie.
The failure to understand truth is the damnation to repeat it.
You were told nothing at all that resembled truth, only that which laid track for the money train to invade Iraq. Does it mean it didn't happen because it wasn't in some "official" report? Yeah, this is all one big misunderstanding alright -- fucking dripping with bullshit sold to the public as "official bullshit"
Common sense and a bit of critical thinking will open up doors and relationships between cause and effect, both are linked.
The average citizen has been totally undermined where Congress Inc. would rather move furniture around the big shit under the carpet than disturb official bullshit and our "royal friends."
Fuck Saudi Arabia and the Royal Assfuckers, your not welcome in the USA -- GET THE FUCK OUT!
As their skin wears thin they will apply another coat of paint.
It is but a cosmetic paint that has no affect as to preserving the integrity of union and it's core foundation. It is whitewash.
So they will kill again here or where is the only question.
So, these guys weren't able to get this info out ten years ago and NOW it's acceptable, and by the warmonger's paper of record?
Smells like folks itching for more war to me.
NOTHING is going to be corrected until we learn that we need NO "leaders." As long as we have them we will be lied to and murdered. But other than these flaws I hear that they're just "regular" people...
I find the timing of this information very questionable. It would serve well to deflect this onto Saudi, it allows leverage over the Saudi controllers (royal family - a fairly despised minority).
While my research into understanding the 911 incident definitely indicates Saudi involvement, I think that is really a ruse and a deflection. While certainly there was potential gain to the Saudi royals - there are more direct benefits to other groups.
No, its scapegoating imo-and a way to 'reveal' something to appease, and then shutdown any action-the rationaliztion of course, '$5 gas not good enough? You want $20 gas?'
I want $95m per DAY just like each saudi princess.
One day you will open you eyes after you grow up and realize that truth is stranger than fiction, and oil is a fucking racket. A monopoly of oppression and war.
Change your name to dipshit as it aint about timing, its about truth.
House of saud fraud falls this decade, and GOOD RIDDANCE!!
we are chained to a rogue government and as the US Constitution commands us, to break the chains that bind us to this rogue government.
My god, You fuckers are nearly as drunk as I am!
I am truly appalled by the anti semetic thread of the comments on this article. The common thread in all of this conspiracy theorizing is that it is the fault of the Jews. After the end of World War II, who could have imagined that another variant of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" would flourish. I am a long time Zero Hedger, but this stuff makes me want to puke. There are some sick puppies here.
Do you not understand the difference b/t common Jewry and ZIONISM?!!!
I do...and there is a HUGE difference!
Do some research into the goals of Zionism. It is a radical ideology, and that's undeniable.
I am truly appalled by the anti Semitic thread of the comments...
Considering the size of the Zero Hedge community one must regard off topic hate as an outlier where it is off point.
But what about off topic solicitation of guilt? Estimates of 100 Million or more souls were lost from 1930 to 1955 and so I ask you why is one group of victims more important than any other?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that whether by collateral damage, direct slaughter of villages or prison camp starvation/gassing the common thread should be seen as STATE SPONSORED attacks on the human race that our own nation is continuing to this day. How is it that we are not ALL united in discrimination against WAR as an acceptable solution to our differences of opinion?
To be fair most have issues with the actions of the israeli government and xionist settlers.
There are approx 6 million jews in a semi-autonomous province in central russia and last i heard they werent causing any wars.
So many greedy people were let off the hook when Building 7 fell.
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@Carpathia
Well-there is nothing at all antisemetic in the presented article. However, I would also like to discuss the word ' anti semetic' and ask you to reflect on it, and what it means.
There are often a lot of attacks directed at China, and even Chinese - but there is no specific word to differentiate racism against Chinese from any other type of racist comment. Also, when people make comments attacking China for example, there is no differentiation between the state or the people, and saying China or Chinese did this or that terrible thing is rarely, or never seen as racist.
So try to explain why comments made attacking Israels state or foreign policy can automatically be branded anti semetic and become racist, and why there is a special word to separate the Jewish race (of which there isnt a homogenous ethnicity anyhow) from other races in terms of racist language?
Anti semetic is simply a word that's publicly laden with negative connotations so it can be whipped out to shut down and deflect any comments about the actions of Israel the state, its foreign policies, its criminal violations of international law and so on.
Comments about a state, or the actions of specific people are not racism-neither are negative comments regarding the culture of certain groups, culture is not a product of race. Vile cultures may flourish within any ethnic group-and these vile customs, values and practices are to be condemned regardless of whether they are of homogenous ethnicity or not, without any fear of the false allegation of racism.
Thank God for you, Amagnonx! Well said...
Amagnonx - great post.
re. anti semetic ... why there is a special word to separate the Jewish race (of which there isnt a homogenous ethnicity anyhow)
Excellent question. Why not say Anti-Jew??? Very easy to communicate and be understood. So why insist on this bogus language?? anti semetic?
Because it promotes the false idea of an ancestral connection to the land of Palestine. The ancestors of the Semetics, the Biblical Jews of the time of Jesus were mostly still in Palestine when the Zionists began driving them out. According to Prof. Shlomo Sands, the Palestinians are most likely the descendants of the biblical Jews who converted to Islam.
The Israelis are mostly European in origin. In that sense, it's a colony, with colonizers, like Algiers and many other parts of the world once were.
So who are the true anti-Semites? Those abusing the Semites? or their victims of all that land clearing and violence?
People are sooooo buffaloed.
The Israelis are mostly European in origin.
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Doubtful. They are few Europeans left today.
Very hard to think that all jewish people come from them.
Populations living in Europe are today for the majority Indo-Europeans as they call themselves in an attempt to appear natives to Europe.
But they are Asians. Not Europeans.
They keep pushing their agenda as they now call more and more Russians Europeans when those are clearly Asians.
It is quite normal since themselves are Asians and insist on being called Europeans or at best Indo-Europeans.
That's not accurate though. European Jews survived in numbers in neutral Spain and others moved into Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Egypt and North Africa more generally. And these became handy spies, infiltrators and fifth-column, building links in finance and Politics in these states, which was highly advantageous in later Arab-Israeli wars until they were either imprisoned, executed, or expelled. And many of those expelled moved to Australia, rather than Israel, and have done the exact same things here. This is just what they do, the Gypo will pick your pocket once (France and Italy discovered this again recently) but conservative zionist Joos work in concert to take over banks, real estate, media, Law, medicine state-treasuries and politics, simultaneously, and use guilt, lies and double standards to play your hard working country like an orchestra, until you are just destroyed indebted wage-slaves, working longer and longer hours and getting nowhere.
Thus you get an openly zionist single-female Prime Minsiter co-habiting with a Joo.
It takes much longer but they can then pick your pocket indefinately. Gypo and Joo 'culture' are both just two varieties of predatory thieving parasites.
Well, until the locals wise up to them and get some spine (and they will, the awakening has begun) then we'll get economic calamity, police-state, war and a scree of revenge and forced expulsions, etc.
Plus many Jews (in general) left Europe long before WWII, and spread widely and built families up in the European colonies, then returned to Israel, or else their children and Grand children did. Thus there are plenty of formerly European Jews in Israel.
The Jews in Israel are not all Ashkanazi, not even close.
So all the fundies aren't just blindly fighting for Lucifer's chosen people (the Khazars)... but God's chosen people are actually... the Palestinians? BWHAHAHAHA! So many douchebags will be in for a rude surprise on Judgement Day. What a marvelously fucked up world. Thanks, Lucifer.
Because of a technicality, it's not possible to be anti-semitic toward 98% the occupants of the State of Israel.
Those occupants are European Jews, converted in the 7th century to Judaism. Not much Semitic blood there.
The 13th Tribe of Khazaria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArXEOo2iU0
DNA studies indicate that the Khazar hypothesis is wrong. But science isn't very popular on this board, I've noticed
You forgot to mention: DNA studies "done by Ashkanazi researchers" with the objective to "prove" the Khazar hypothesis is wrong . . .
Forgive me if I'm skeptical that you have even looked into the relevant literature (seeing as you can't even spell the word Ashkenazi).
But please, do list any scientific study or geneticist who can present evidence that euro jews have NO genetic link to the middle east (which was the original contention). There is evidence of Khazar admixture among some Ashkenazi, however that is not what what was stated.
I think you'll find this very interesting too;
Hexagram - Star of David or star of... (1of2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5eJQkSq9QE&feature=player_embedded#! Hexagram - Star of David or star of... (2of2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VkX4e1Ak4KcThanks. So many different meanings I never even heard of. Since the Rothschilds chose the hexagram for Israel's flag (instead of the menorah), I am guessing it means Lucifer and 6/6/6 in this case.