Congress releases classified 9/11 documents regarding Saudia Arabian ties (interview, Reagan, CNN)

[Jimmyp25]

Saudis Arabia already mad ....






https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...client=safari#

[Jimmyp25]

Nothing?

[Mr. In-Between]

"While in the United States, some of the September 11 hijackers were in contact with, and received support or assistance from, individuals who may be connected to the Saudi Government," the document says.

The pages also say that the inquiry obtained information "indicating that Saudi Government officials in the United States may have other ties to al-Qa'ida and other terrorist groups," but the commission that authored the document acknowledged that much of the info "remains speculative and yet to be independently verified."

That's interesting enough in its own right, but what I find even more intriguing is how neutral and sanitized the CNN report is. Look at this from a different source -

Perhaps the most explosive passages in the 28 pages, part of a larger, otherwise unclassified congressional report on American intelligence blunders before 9/11, offer previously unknown information about the actions of a powerful figure in the Saudi royal family. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who was his country’s ambassador to Washington for several years before and after 9/11 and was a close friend of Bush.

According to the report, at least $15,000 went directly from Prince Bandar’s bank account in Washington to the family of a Saudi expatriate, suspected of being a Saudi government spy, who organized a support network in California for two of the 9/11 hijackers while they were living in San Diego in the year before the attacks.

The report also reveals that a phone log maintained by Abu Zubaydah, a senior al-Qaida operative captured in 2002 in Pakistan, included the unlisted phone number for a Colorado company that managed affairs at Prince Bandar’s home in the mountain resort city of Aspen, as well as the phone number for a bodyguard who worked under Bandar at the Saudi embassy in Washington.

It had previously been reported that Bandar’s wife, Princess Haifa bin Sultan, who was born into royalty like her husband, had paid out tens of thousands of dollars to the wife of the same Saudi expatriate in California, Osama Basnan.

In other words, a Saudi prince who was acting as the ambassador to the United States (and a close friend of President W, the man who ordered this section of the report classified) gave tens of thousands of dollars to a suspected Saudi intelligence operative who is known to have given financial and material support to at least 2 of the 9/11 hijackers while they were preparing for the attacks. If I were a DA, I would love to have that as a starting point for an investigation.


And...

John Lehman, navy secretary in the Reagan administration and a Republican member of the 9/11 commission, said in an interview on Friday that the 28 pages, which he had not read for several years, demonstrated why there needed to be additional investigation of the possible ties between Saudi government officials and the 9/11 plot.

He has said previously that he regretted that the 9/11 commission report, which was based in part on evidence gathered by the earlier congressional investigation, was read as an exoneration of the Saudis.

“The trail of evidence may be a little cold, but it’s time for a complete reappraisal of our relationship with the Saudis,” said Lehman, who said the Bush and Obama administrations had both failed to pressure the Saudi government to cut its ties to a fanatical, violent branch of Islam known as Wahhabism. “This is going to be a matter for the next president.”

Granted, this comes from the drooling madman who proposed that if the Soviets ever attacked Germany, we should invade Vladivostok and fight our way across 7000 miles of Siberia tundra and the Ural Mountains to sneak up on them from behind, but still. Even a lunatic has a good point sometimes, and he makes one here.

[CD2013]

They were classified??? Surprised Hillary didn't post em on Facebook.