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12/9/13, "9/11 Link To Saudi Arabia Is Topic Of 28 Redacted Pages In Government Report; Congressmen Push For Release," IB Times, Jamie Reno
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Codevilla, 10/20/11, "Many influential Americans were making
money in the Arab world...That would have pointed to the Middle East’s regimes, and to our ruling class’ relationship with them,
as the problem’s (terrorism) ultimate source." The US Ruling Class profits from terrorism.
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12/15/13, "Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup," NY Post, Paul Sperry
"After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors.
But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress’
investigative report on 9/11 dealing with “specific sources of foreign
support” for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals.
It was kept secret and remains so today.
President Bush inexplicably censored 28 full pages of the 800-page
report. Text isn’t just blacked-out here and there in this
critical-yet-missing middle section. The pages are completely blank,
except for dotted lines where an estimated 7,200 words once stood (this
story by comparison is about 1,000 words).
A pair of lawmakers who recently read the redacted portion say they
are “absolutely shocked” at the level of foreign state involvement in
the attacks.
Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) can’t reveal
the nation identified by it without violating federal law. So they’ve
proposed Congress pass a resolution asking President Obama to declassify
the entire 2002 report, “Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Community
Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11,
2001.”
Some information already has leaked from the classified section,
which is based on both CIA and FBI documents, and it points back to
Saudi Arabia, a presumed ally.
The Saudis deny any role in 9/11, but the CIA in one memo reportedly
found “incontrovertible evidence” that Saudi government officials — not
just wealthy Saudi hardliners, but high-level diplomats and intelligence
officers employed by the kingdom — helped the hijackers both
financially and logistically. The intelligence files cited in the report
directly implicate the Saudi embassy in Washington and consulate in Los
Angeles in the attacks, making 9/11 not just an act of terrorism, but
an act of war.
The findings, if confirmed, would back up open-source reporting
showing the hijackers had, at a minimum, ties to several Saudi officials
and agents while they were preparing for their attacks inside the
United States. In fact, they got help from Saudi VIPs from coast to
coast:
LOS ANGELES: Saudi consulate official Fahad
al-Thumairy allegedly arranged for an advance team to receive two of the
Saudi hijackers — Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi — as they
arrived at LAX in 2000. One of the advance men, Omar al-Bayoumi, a
suspected Saudi intelligence agent, left the LA consulate and met the
hijackers at a local restaurant. (Bayoumi left the United States two
months before the attacks, while Thumairy was deported back to Saudi
Arabia after 9/11.)
SAN DIEGO: Bayoumi and another suspected Saudi
agent, Osama Bassnan, set up essentially a forward operating base in San
Diego for the hijackers after leaving LA. They were provided rooms,
rent and phones, as well as private meetings with an American al Qaeda
cleric who would later become notorious, Anwar al-Awlaki, at a
Saudi-funded mosque he ran in a nearby suburb. They were also feted at a
welcoming party. (Bassnan also fled the United States just before the
attacks.)
WASHINGTON: Then-Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar and
his wife sent checks totaling some $130,000 to Bassnan while he was
handling the hijackers. Though the Bandars claim the checks were
“welfare” for Bassnan’s supposedly ill wife, the money nonetheless made
its way into the hijackers’ hands.
Other al Qaeda funding was traced back to Bandar and his embassy— so
much so that by 2004 Riggs Bank of Washington had dropped the Saudis as
a client. The next year, as a number of embassy employees popped up in terror probes, Riyadh recalled Bandar.
“Our investigations contributed to the ambassador’s departure,” an
investigator who worked with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in
Washington told me, though Bandar says he left for “personal reasons.”
FALLS CHURCH, VA.: In 2001, Awlaki and the San Diego
hijackers turned up together again — this time at the Dar al-Hijrah
Islamic Center, a Pentagon-area mosque built with funds from the Saudi
Embassy. Awlaki was recruited 3,000 miles away to head the mosque. As
its imam, Awlaki helped the hijackers, who showed up at his doorstep as
if on cue. He tasked a handler to help them acquire apartments and IDs
before they attacked the Pentagon.
Awlaki worked closely with the Saudi Embassy. He lectured at a Saudi
Islamic think tank in Merrifield, Va., chaired by Bandar. Saudi travel
itinerary documents I’ve obtained show he also served as the official
imam on Saudi Embassy-sponsored trips to Mecca and tours of Saudi holy
sites.
Most suspiciously, though, Awlaki fled the United States on a Saudi jet about a year after 9/11.
As I first reported in my book, “Infiltration,” quoting from
classified US documents, the Saudi-sponsored cleric was briefly detained
at JFK before being released into the custody of a “Saudi
representative.” A federal warrant for Awlaki’s arrest had mysteriously
been withdrawn the previous day. A US drone killed Awlaki in Yemen in
2011.
HERNDON, VA.: On the eve of the attacks, top Saudi
government official Saleh Hussayen checked into the same Marriott
Residence Inn near Dulles Airport as three of the Saudi hijackers who
targeted the Pentagon. Hussayen had left a nearby hotel to move into the
hijackers’ hotel. Did he meet with them? The FBI never found out. They
let him go after he “feigned a seizure,” one agent recalled. (Hussayen’s
name doesn’t appear in the separate 9/11 Commission Report, which
clears the Saudis.)
SARASOTA, FLA.: 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta and
other hijackers visited a home owned by Esam Ghazzawi, a Saudi adviser
to the nephew of King Fahd. FBI agents investigating the connection in
2002 found that visitor logs for the gated community and photos of
license tags matched vehicles driven by the hijackers. Just two weeks
before the 9/11 attacks, the Saudi luxury home was abandoned. Three
cars, including a new Chrysler PT Cruiser, were left in the driveway.
Inside, opulent furniture was untouched.
Democrat Bob Graham, the former Florida senator who chaired the Joint
Inquiry, has asked the FBI for the Sarasota case files, but can’t get a
single, even heavily redacted, page released. He says it’s a “coverup.”
Is the federal government protecting the Saudis? Case agents tell me
they were repeatedly called off pursuing 9/11 leads back to the Saudi
Embassy, which had curious sway over White House and FBI responses to
the attacks.
Just days after Bush met with the Saudi ambassador in the White
House, the FBI evacuated from the United States dozens of Saudi
officials, as well as Osama bin Laden family members. Bandar made the
request for escorts directly to FBI headquarters on Sept. 13, 2001 —
just hours after he met with the president. The two old family friends
shared cigars on the Truman Balcony while discussing the attacks.
Bill Doyle, who lost his son in the World Trade Center attacks and
heads the Coalition of 9/11 Families, calls the suppression of Saudi
evidence a “coverup beyond belief.” Last week, he sent out an e-mail to
relatives urging them to phone their representatives in Congress to
support the resolution and read for themselves the censored 28 pages.
Astonishing as that sounds, few lawmakers in fact have bothered to
read the classified section of arguably the most important investigation
in US history.
Granted, it’s not easy to do. It took a monthlong letter-writing
campaign by Jones and Lynch to convince the House intelligence panel to
give them access to the material.
But it’s critical they take the time to read it and pressure the
White House to let all Americans read it. This isn’t water under the
bridge. The information is still relevant today. Pursuing leads
further, getting to the bottom of the foreign support, could help head
off another 9/11.
As the frustrated Joint Inquiry authors warned, in an overlooked
addendum to their heavily redacted 2002 report, “State-sponsored
terrorism substantially increases the likelihood of successful and more
lethal attacks within the United States.”
Their findings must be released, even if they forever change US-Saudi
relations. If an oil-rich foreign power was capable of orchestrating
simultaneous bulls-eye hits on our centers of commerce and defense a
dozen years ago, it may be able to pull off similarly devastating
attacks today.
Members of Congress reluctant to read the full report ought to remember that the 9/11 assault missed its fourth target: them."
"Paul Sperry is a Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “Infiltration” and “Muslim Mafia.”"
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12/15/13, "Murdoch’s NYPost Today Backs Michael Moore Bush-Saudi Claims from “Fahrenheit 911″," showbizz411, Roger Friedman
"UPDATE- Paul Sperry responds: “Unger and Moore have
their own agendas. Mine aligns with the FBI WFO case agents and FCPD*
detectives who say they’ll never forgive the Bush admin for throttling
their investigation of leads back to Saudi Embassy and Bandar himself in
McLean. They view the former POTUS as a traitor.”"
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Added: Bush needs to be put in jail for the rest of his life. That will be a beginning. The US Ruling class continues to profit from terror and destabilization. Bush has been out of office for 5 years. Plenty of people knew about this. Where have they been? Comments to this story at Atlas Shrugs.
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Getting George Bush would be a start to bringing down the Ruling Class.
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10/20/11, "The lost decade," [2001-2011] Angelo M. Codevilla, Claremont Institute
"Our ruling class justified its ever-larger role in America’s domestic life by redefining war as a never-ending struggle against unspecified enemies for abstract objectives, and by asserting expertise far above that of ordinary Americans.(parag. 9)...It failed to ask the classic headwaters question: what is the problem?...(subhead, 'Whatever it takes')
"Whatever it Takes"...
That would have pointed to the Middle East’s regimes, and to our ruling class’ relationship with them,
as the problem’s ultimate source. The rulers of Iran, Iraq, Syria,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority had run (and continue to run) educational and media systems that demonize America. Under
all of them, the Muslim Brotherhood or the Wahhabi sect spread that
message in religious terms to Muslims in the West as well as at home.
That message indicts America, among other things, for being weak.
And indeed, ever since the 1970s U.S. policy had responded to acts of war and terrorism from the Muslim world by absolving the regimes for their subjects’ actions....Many influential Americans were making money in the Arab world."...
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"Saudi-US relations-Seven decades of friendship," SaudiEmbassy.net
Above link has photographs of US presidents with Saudis going back to Harry Truman.
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Above, 2/13/1962, King Saud of Saudi Arabia with JFK, corbis images
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Above, April 25, 2005, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah and George Bush, George Bush White House archives
Above, 4/1/2009, Pres. Obama bows on bended knee before Saudi King Abdullah at G20 meeting, AP photo. The point isn't that others may have done it--Obama was supposed to be so much better than the others. Instead he's a placeholder for the Global Ruling Class.
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