Movement pursues the ‘real story’ of Saudi involvement in Sept. 11

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Washington Times:

Saudi Arabia’s grass roots of Muslim clerics, mosquegoers and wealthy oilmen funded al Qaeda’s $30 million annual budget at the time a Saudi-dominated platoon of terrorists carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America.

 

Yet the kingdom and its Islamic rulers had nothing to do with the plot, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

 

End of story.

 

That was what the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States said more than a decade ago.

 

On Wednesday, as President Obama visited Saudi Arabia, that conclusion was under attack more than ever before.

 

What had been an undercurrent of protests from survivors and pundits is now an out-in-the-open political movement to find out whether the Saudi royal family and its aides supported the 19 al Qaeda hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals.

 

On the campaign trail, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says the “real story” of 9/11 has yet to be told. He and some members of Congress want the Obama administration to release 28 pages withheld from the final 2002 Joint Congressional Inquiry report that predated the national commission’s inquiry. The pages are said to implicate a number of Saudis in helping the attackers. Mr. Trump said that as president he will declassify them.

 

Meanwhile, another Saudi-related 9/11 issue has hit the presidential campaign trail.

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Once We Had Some Muslim Friends

BY MICHAEL LEDEEN APRIL 20, 2016

As Michael Rubin says, it’s hard to love the Saudis. But still…they’re valuable allies, they’ve been there for seventy-odd years, and although they treat women abominably, and export radical Islamist ideology via their global network of religious schools and compliant mosques and imams, it’s hard to justify President Obama’s gratuitous insults in recent weeks. He’s complained that they want to be “free riders.” He’s visibly annoyed that the Saudis want him to join their campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and pay for it with American blood and treasure. Indeed, he’s called on the royal family to find a way to “share” the region with the Iranians.

 

This week he was in Riyadh for the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council, composed of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The auguries, and past history, aren’t great; a year ago the Saudis boycotted the summit to demonstrate their unhappiness with his Iran policy. The Saudis just did a favor for the White House, accepting nine Guantanamo inmates.

https://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2016/04/20/once-we-had-some-muslim-friends/

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9/11 Commission: No Saudi smoking gun

 

Rowan Scarborough

 

The men who led the official investigation into the September 11 attacks are fighting back against charges their commission did not delve deep enough into Saudi Arabia’s involvement.

 

More than a decade after the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States filed its report, a new push has erupted in Washington to force the administration to released the so-called “28 pages.”

 

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These pages on purported Saudi involvement were withheld by the George W. Bush administration from a report by a special joint congressional committee that pre-dated the commission.

 

The commission co-chairmen, former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, put out a lengthy statement on Friday. They said their investigators worked off leads in those 28-pages, but could find no evidence that the Riyadh Islamic government was involved in the al Qaeda attack by 19 hijackers, 15 of them Saudi nationals.

 

“We believe it important the public understand what the commission did with regard to the 28 pages,” the two said in their statement.

 

They portrayed the secret passages, not as confirmed, smoking-gun findings, but “raw, unvetted material that came to the FBI.”

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/23/911-commissioners-no-saudi-smoking-gun/