WASHINGTON - 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.
ow new claims by Zacarias Moussaoui,
a convicted former member of Al Qaeda, that he had high-level contact
with officials of the Saudi Arabian 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.
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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only planes allowed to fly on 9/11 carried saudi royalty:
The F.B.I. gave personal airport escorts to two prominent Saudi
families who fled the United States, and several other Saudis were
allowed to leave the country without first being interviewed, the
documents show.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/politics/27exodus.html
President George W.
Bush takes Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah in hand during a visit to Bush's
ranch in Crawford, Texas, in April 2005.
Gerald Herbert / Associated Press
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.
ow new claims by Zacarias Moussaoui,
a convicted former member of Al Qaeda, that he had high-level contact
with officials of the Saudi Arabian 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.
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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/us/claims-against-saudis-cast-new-light-on-secret-pages-of-9-11-report.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
only planes allowed to fly on 9/11 carried saudi royalty:
The F.B.I. gave personal airport escorts to two prominent Saudi
families who fled the United States, and several other Saudis were
allowed to leave the country without first being interviewed, the
documents show.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/politics/27exodus.html
President George W.
Bush takes Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah in hand during a visit to Bush's
ranch in Crawford, Texas, in April 2005.
Gerald Herbert / Associated Press
