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| Former President Reagan greeting Prince Bandar bin Sultan Today, remembered as "Bandar Bush" |
Does give pause to question whose side our own Government is really on, doesn't it?
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from AllGov
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| Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud |
The Obama administration continues to come under pressure from lawmakers and the survivors and families of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to release the findings of a secret report that may show that some members of the royal family of Saudi Arabia aided the hijackers 13 years ago.
A congressional investigation into the plot produced a year after the attacks included a 28-page section that the George W. Bush administration classified. That portion, titled "Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive National Security Matters," has been rumored to contain information that indicates Saudi intelligence helped the al-Qaeda terrorists. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens.
A bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill has urged the White House to release the classified section of the 2002 report. That came in the form of Resolution 428 introduced last year by Representatives Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) and Stephen Lynch (D-Massachusetts), who renewed their call in April with a letter to the president. Unless Obama acts soon, the lawmakers will hold a press conference next month on the September 11 anniversary to draw more attention to the issue.
Jones has seen the part of the report he hopes to have declassified. "I'll tell you, the 28 pages will be an embarrassment to the previous administration," Jones told VICE News, although he is barred from offering details. "We live in a world where there are certain leaders in certain countries that some people are concerned of their reaction. I feel differently."
Former Senator Bob Graham (D-Florida), who co-chaired the joint Senate-House investigation in 2002, told VICE News that, "It's become more and more inexplicable as to why two administrations have denied the American people information that would help them better understand what happened on 9/11."
In a court filing produced two years ago for a lawsuit brought by 9/11 victims against the Saudi government, Graham said: "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."
The Saudi government has strongly denied a connection. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who was the Saudi ambassador to the United States at the time of the attacks, said in 2003: "There is something wrong with the basic logic of those who spread these spurious charges. Al Qaeda is a cult that is seeking to destroy Saudi Arabia as well as the United States. By what logic would we support a cult that is trying to kill us?"
But Bandar called on President Bush two days after the attacks to ask that many Saudi citizens be airlifted out of the U.S. in the days after 9/11. Bush, whose family has a strong relationship with Bandar, complied with the request even though there was no other air traffic allowed in the country at the time.
Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has been accused of supporting al-Qaeda in a suit filed by Lloyd's of London in an effort to recoup some of its losses paid to 9/11 victims. Salman, although reportedly in ill health, is next in line to the Saudi throne.
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A congressional investigation into the plot produced a year after the attacks included a 28-page section that the George W. Bush administration classified. That portion, titled "Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive National Security Matters," has been rumored to contain information that indicates Saudi intelligence helped the al-Qaeda terrorists. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens.
A bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill has urged the White House to release the classified section of the 2002 report. That came in the form of Resolution 428 introduced last year by Representatives Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) and Stephen Lynch (D-Massachusetts), who renewed their call in April with a letter to the president. Unless Obama acts soon, the lawmakers will hold a press conference next month on the September 11 anniversary to draw more attention to the issue.
Jones has seen the part of the report he hopes to have declassified. "I'll tell you, the 28 pages will be an embarrassment to the previous administration," Jones told VICE News, although he is barred from offering details. "We live in a world where there are certain leaders in certain countries that some people are concerned of their reaction. I feel differently."
Former Senator Bob Graham (D-Florida), who co-chaired the joint Senate-House investigation in 2002, told VICE News that, "It's become more and more inexplicable as to why two administrations have denied the American people information that would help them better understand what happened on 9/11."
In a court filing produced two years ago for a lawsuit brought by 9/11 victims against the Saudi government, Graham said: "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."
The Saudi government has strongly denied a connection. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who was the Saudi ambassador to the United States at the time of the attacks, said in 2003: "There is something wrong with the basic logic of those who spread these spurious charges. Al Qaeda is a cult that is seeking to destroy Saudi Arabia as well as the United States. By what logic would we support a cult that is trying to kill us?"
But Bandar called on President Bush two days after the attacks to ask that many Saudi citizens be airlifted out of the U.S. in the days after 9/11. Bush, whose family has a strong relationship with Bandar, complied with the request even though there was no other air traffic allowed in the country at the time.
Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has been accused of supporting al-Qaeda in a suit filed by Lloyd's of London in an effort to recoup some of its losses paid to 9/11 victims. Salman, although reportedly in ill health, is next in line to the Saudi throne.
-Noel Brinkerhoff, Steve Straehley
To Learn More:
Campaign Mounts to Declassify 9/11 Report's References to Alleged Saudi Involvement (by Samuel Oakford, VICE News)
Secret 9/11 Documents: "Implausible" that the 9/11 Hijackers Acted Without Government Backing (Global Research News)
Federal Court Reinstates Saudi Arabia as Defendant in 9/11 Survivors' Lawsuit (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
Next in Line for Saudi Throne…Prince Accused of Supporting Al-Qaeda (by David Wallechinsky and Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
Newly Released Documents Show Saudi Ruling Family Support for Al-Qaeda (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
Charleston Voice posts:
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The missing 28 pages about Saudi Arabia and 9/11
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NATO preparing vast disinformation ...
Jun 13, 2012
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Feb 17, 2014
The dangling Irish pennant in this report needing a firm tug is the decades-old US presidents' comradeship with Saudi Prince Bandar who now heads up Saudi intelligence. What was his involvement in the 911 horror that ...
As Britain and France Beg EU to Ship ...
Mar 16, 2013
“Saudi intelligence, led by Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, is bringing the militants fighting the Syrian forces under the umbrella of the al-Nusra Front. The report said Prince Bandar is organizing these terrorists through ...
Who Is Really Behind the Syrian War? - YouTube
Sep 06, 2013
What will the Middle East look like if the Sunnis take over Syria? What is Israel's role in this? What do Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have to gain from a war in Syria? And what does Bandar Bush have to do with all of this?
NATO preparing vast disinformation ...
Jun 13, 2012
The third meeting was held by General James B. Smith, the US ambassador, a representative of the UK, prince Bandar Bin Sultan (whom former U.S. president George Bush named his adopted son so that the U.S. press ...
Sep 10, 2013
I
for one have found this report the most complete and credible account
of the US war on Syria. If foreigners and friends abroad find our
government guilty of "despicable posturing" then anyone that can hear
and read, is not ...
Aug 11, 2014
Some
time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the powerful Saudi
ambassador in Washington and head of Saudi intelligence until a few
months ago, had a revealing and ominous conversation with the head of
the ...
Jul 29, 2012
Prince
Bandar had just been appointed head of Saudi intelligence on July 24: a
promotion which was interpreted as a reward for having organized the
attack in Damascus on July 18. The Saudi services, with logistical
support ...
Oct 20, 2013
Posted
by Charleston Voice. Read how the Bush family recruited and cultivated
Bandar into the US intelligence web: Is Saudi Prince Bandar really
behind Syria chemical attacks *vid* Saturday, October 19, 2013 10:51 PM.
