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The Saudi Role in Sept. 11 and the Hidden 9/11 Report Pages
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Newsweek
Posted: January 11th, 2015
http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-911-george-w-bush-barac...
28 still-classified pages pages in a congressional inquiry on 9/11 ... raise questions about Saudi financial support to the hijackers in the United States prior to the attacks. Both the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama have refused to declassify the pages on grounds of national security. But [some] members of Congress who have read the pages ... say national security has nothing to do with it. Former Florida Senator Bob Graham, a Democrat who co-chaired the joint investigation of the House and Senate intelligence committees into the Sept. 11 attacks ... maintains that nothing in them qualifies as a legitimate national security secret. The 2002 joint congressional committee probe [Graham] co-chaired reported only that, contacts in the United States helped hijackers ... But in an interview with Newsweek, Graham said the contacts were Saudis with close connections to their government. The Florida Democrat charged that there has been an organized effort to suppress information about Saudi support for terrorism, which "started long before 9/11 and continued ... after 9/11. ISIS ... is a product of Saudi ideals, Saudi money and Saudi organizational support, although now they are making a pretense of being very anti-ISIS, Graham added. The two co-chairman of ... the 9/11 Commission, likewise urged the White House to declassify the 28 pages. Im embarrassed that theyre not declassified, former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind) said at a press conference with his co-chair Tom Kean, the former Republican governor of New Jersey. Meanwhile, Washington and the Saudi royals still maintain their decades-long, cozy relationship.
Note: Several current and former government officials are trying to expose the Saudi government money behind ISIS and other terrorist groups. For more along these lines, read concise summaries of deeply revealing 9/11 investigation news from reliable major media sources.
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