Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators Say

[WestVirginiaRebel]

NY Times:

WASHINGTON — 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.

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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Conspiracy theory?

[Rheo]

Senator Kerrey seems to be in the news lately. Previously undisclosed affidavits are released on Friday and by Wednesday, his retirement is off and he is going to run again.

 

Conspiracy theory?

 

[Valin]

 

“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.

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Conspiracy theory?

 

While I have not read/studied every single thing pertaining to 9-11, I have read/studied quite a bit. Given the size of the Saudi family,the dominance of the Wahhabi movement (for all practical purposes a monopoly) there is a good chance some were involved in financing Al Qaeda. We must remember after the Afghan/Soviet war Osama bin Laden was very popular with the Saudis, so there is a better than even chance that some of his funds came from the Family Saud. How ever this is not the same thing as saying there is a direct link between the Saudi government and the Planes Operation (9-11). Remember by the time of 9-11 OBL was not exactly the most popular person with the Saudi government, little things like revoking a persons citizenship, freezing bank account, kicking him out of the country, forcing his family to publicly renounce him lead me to say that.

 

I'd like to see his evidence, until then, I'd say Bobby boy is looking for his 15minutes of fame.

[Pepper]

Kerry and Graham, two losers.