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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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Spooky, huh? Now that you have experienced the phenomenon, I bet your odds for the "random, purposeless universe of dead matter" theory are lower than you would have given yesterday.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 911 is classified":
http://undertheradarmedia.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/evidence-linking-thes...
another big no duh study.
So now the ball lands in Saudi Arabia huh? Nice try...but no cigar.
Perhaps you might want to look towards another little middle east country? Here, try this one:
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." - US Governbment Official
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/spyring.php
WHY NOT? THEY'D BE A PERFECT PATSY OR FALLGUY. We all know Bush Sr. was having lunch with the papa Bin Laden in Washington on 9/11. We all know Osama has been a CIA asset for at least 2 decades before. Now as we plan for the overthrow of autocratic Syria and others, to be replaced with the American form of "Democracy" wheren the sheeple are totally controlled and are essentailly pod people -mindless zombies -why not replace the royal family in Saudi Arabia? We could do it in a month -with ease.
We all know that Sadam flew both planes into the WTC.
Maybe Saudi gets it's own 'Spring'
http://www.ntv7.com.my/7edition/international-en/SAUDI_UNREST_CLASHES_IN...
http://www.arabist.net/blog/2012/2/24/saudi-arabias-unrest-in-qatif.html
This is funny in a way because Western Media says all the killing is going on in Syria.
Hell, we haven't even been told the truth on JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King, none of it including 911. Why does anyone think TPTB would clue us in now? The rat bastards are in control; they'll not let the truth air about any of this; ever.
The world we actually live in is much different from the world they want us to THINK we live in.
It's like The Matrix, only without the cool names & bitchin' sunglasses.
"The world we actually live in is much different from the world they want us to THINK we live in." Morpheus
Now turn up the tv!
There are 300 million of you.
What you gonna do about it?
There are 300 million of you. What you gonna do about it?
Absolutely nothing ...except a lot of talk like "hang the bastards", "get 'em", etc.
Americans are the most armed and least motivated people on the planet.
All of this seditious libel can be very bad for your health.
but obama bowed to the king, they must be our friends
I still have a pic of BushCo holding hands with the Saudi King in a garden and looking like lovers. Whats your point.
So did Bush...So did Clinton...So did Bush Sr....so did Reagan....etc etc etc.
They all do.
I'd be more concerned about their constant genuflecting to AIPAC than their bowing to a Saudi King.
Same thing really. House of saud are Zionist cryptos.
And Saudi Arabia thought that they were not on the list for regime change...actually they were at the top of Cheney's list but things didn't quite work out as planned and he didn't get to be the President under martial law....but now, after Syria and Iran...Is it clean up on aisle 'free' with KSA?
Unless the king does what the banksters want him to do, he is on the list. It appears the puppet masters are shaking the royal family down a little bit with this - perhaps they are not buying enough treasuries or are not being as dollar friendly as the masters would like?
generally i'm not a big fan of this stuff but i would agree "this is a big deal." we've never needed the oil...this...WAS well known by the aspriring "powers that be" upon arrival of "post 9/11." when oil prices peaked out at 140 bucks a barrel however i imagine "never having an energy policy" probably dawned on them as "a really bad idea." amazingly...as oil goes right back up there again "this Administration is still denying that having a sane energy policy has anything to do with anything" as well! well...HOW ABOUT A FOOD POLICY THEN????!!!! Anywho...it's not my job to feed Washington DC et al...though i will for a price of course! And since it's ethanol they want...well, who are the American people to complain. we're now the world's largest exporter! hahahahaha! amazing. "and of course we still need that oil"!!!! GO BACK TO BUGGY WHIPS AMERICA. IF YOU'VE A GOT A MILLION IN BANK ACCOUNT AS A CONSEQUENCE WHO CARES WHAT YOU DRIVE! With the price of electricity having stayed flat to down going on 20 years now...i'm pretty sure you can still afford to keep the lights on anyways...
wtc bldg. 7 demolished, imploded at 520 pm.
9/11/2001.
ps. the saudis didn't do it.
Lets not have a real investigation and go conveniently blame someone for it as per SOP.
Or - lets get the fuckers who really did it - most of them are likely from the USA - and FRY THEIR ASSES ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!!!!!
The Men Who Killed Kennedy; The Guilty Men (full)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m--UyT3CiD4&feature=related
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Ray Wylie Hubbard "Screw You, We're From Texas"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cFtSPIF4Q
@blindman
and Muslims didn't do it, according to engineers at the NOI's '9/11 What Really Happened & Why' presentation last Saturday.
t,
thanks for the link.
BBC reported collapse of WT7 20 minutes before it fell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxFRigYD3s
Then the BBC which is required by law to keep 2 copies of all its broadcasts, promptly lost all copies of its 9/11 broadcasts. It was just "a cock-up, not a conspiracy" claims the BBC.
If you want a different perspective on 9/11 than the one pushed by the lame street media, read anything by David Ray Griffin.
http://davidraygriffin.com/
You know, it wasn't like the day wasn't crazy.
If it were today, a quiet day with nothing going on and this BBC report came on, I'd see your point.
Except two big building had come down, other building were partially destroyed and evacuated and now some 20 year old intern probably screwed up and said a building came down when they only said it was going to come down.
Every crazy situation has information screwed up.
Remember when Clinton came on and said 25 kids died at Columbine and then the next day they said only 13. How did that get screwed up that the president comes up and screws up the number? And that's a pretty easy count, body bags.
So no, I don't get riled up by whatever is said in the BBC video because a lot of news get screwed up in a short period of time when there was so much going on all over the place that day.
If you want to live in a vacuum world, where TV messages are always right well, whatever.
yes, getting the number of kids wrong is EXACTLY like knowing that an additional building with little to no damage has come down fifteen minutes before it came down
you're right that was a "crazy" day and if there weren't so many other "crazy" things that made absolutley no sense, contrary to anti terrorist, air traffic, and numerous other procedures then, in a vucuum, in some twisted logic, there might be a point there. Cases are proven by "the totality of circumstances."...and of course with sane, uncorrupt minds sitting as the trier
he did some very good work. His list of questions are top stuff
In this interview, BBC reporter Alan Hart speaks about his conclusion that Mossad carried-out 911:
http://www.hawaiipoliticalinfo.org/node/5031
Yep. This is BS disinfo propaganda. But why? And why now?
But why? And why now?
Going out on a limb here, but I'd venture a guess it has to do with using this 'new information' as leverage against SA for preferential, lower oil pricing and/or an annoucement of increased output for western globalist countries. The war machine is a hungry beast, and it deosn't like to be kept waiting at mealtime.
Yes, why now...
Purge Wahabbists?
How do you think this is disinfo? You don't actually believe the official story do you? I can't imagine anyone who actually visits and participates here would swallow that crap.
The story is dated February 29th and was released recently. Disinfo in that it is being propagated and re-gurgitated for purposes now notwithstanding all the evidence to date against such an original premise.
Try and keep up.
recently, today, a pipe line blew up in
saudi arabia, the culprit is in question.
should the oil supply be interrupted certain
accusations may be further levied, apparently from
somewhere near the hamptons? ( perhaps an informal
speculative information [rumour] think/thunk tank/ed )
this might work out well with both saudi arabia and iran
cutting off oil supply to the west. we could use a break,
a time out, to get our shit together. prioritize.
get back to basics and eco-nomics where we economize.
where we can rationally differentiate allocation from
misallocation, reintroduce the thinking part of the brain.
yes
Timing
SA, like South Africa is A Prize promised
handed to whom
?
divide et regere
?
when the time comes, and for the selfsame reasons, what is to be feared here, in us, is when the people are again feared, now near, and The Bank plays on the race card
Maybe this is an excuse to liberate all of the remaining oil in KSA?
There is no honor amongst thieves. The US and Sauds have been in cahoots for a long time. But when TSHTF, don't hold your breath
our mindless war against pretty much everybody in the middle east began on 9/11...except israel. hmm...
Bingo!
Give that man a cigar!
No more calls...we have a winner!
Has anyone else noticed that it's the same USA-Israel-GCC axis which is currently promoting (or already fighting a dirty-) war with Iran?
And I suppose the Saudis planted all those thermite charges in the 3 buildings so they imploded upon themselves? And they fired the missle that hit the Pentagon?
It's doubtful they had much to do with the technical details, but they may have conciously provided cover for the operation.
Senators come out "shaking" after 9-11 talks.......don't shake you fucking POS morons........shake because WE NOW KNOW THE TRUTH!!! You are fucked!!
"It' is tragic that these two former senators had this terrible, terribble accident".
"They were so young".
graham?
no worry
spoken like the little character actors they are, these lines were scripted for them
or anyone the producers wanted for the part once wanting in the play
poor kerrey
SA funds all these sunni proxi wars from Northern Africa to the Caucusus with the blessing and direction of the CIA. I think Putin wants the House of Saud under his boot as payback for the mayhem in Central Asia and Russia.
Gee........and the richy rich rucking POS discarded pieces of rotten dog shit thought this issue was ever. You might delay the eniviatlbe......but we are going to hang your ass in the end.