28 Pages That Could Implicate Saudi Arabia In 9/11

[Bill USA]

http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/04/11/3768304/28-pages-cbs/

As President Obama prepares for a trip to Saudi Arabia later this month, a CBS 60 Minutes segment has rekindled calls to declassify the 28 pages omitted from the 2003 report about the 9/11 attacks.

The 28 pages are believed to expose a number of links between various officials in Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 hijackers — 15 of 19 of whom were Saudi citizens. A CIA watchdog report from last year says there is no evidence that the Saudi government “knowingly and willingly” supported al-Qaeda’s attack, but many congressmen believe the 28 pages could indicate heavy Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

“I think it is implausible to believe that 19 people, most of whom didn’t speak English, most of whom had never been in the United States before, many of whom didn’t have a high school education — could’ve carried out such a complicated task without some support from within the United States,” Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) told 60 Minutes. During the interview, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft asked Graham which of the Saudi government, charities, and wealthy benefactors were involved in aiding the hijackers.

“All of the above,” Graham replied.

The papers are accessible to members of Congress, so long as they are unaccompanied and do not take notes. A bipartisan effort led by Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) is attempting to get the documents read and declassified. Obama has promised the families of victims on two separate occasions that he would declassify the 28 pages, which have been classified for 13 years, but he may be reluctant to strain already fragile ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
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[JonathanRackham]

1. Why was this withheld so long?

[ghostsinthemachine]

3. Still being withheld

Cuz of oil of course.

[Ford_Prefect]

6. Being withheld because the same Saudi players are deeply involved in Syria, Libya, and Yemen.

This is a long term strategy that has been active since the 1950's and involves using US military forces as proxy warriors through manipulating the White House, CIA and State Dept. and Congress. It grew out of the cold war mentality here and the House of Saud's desire to own the international oil market.

[yurbud]

10. the terrorists can "work" for us one of two ways: be bedeviling and overthrowing regimes we don't

like OR by being the excuse for us to intervene somewhere.

And who the hell knows who is really on the receiving end of our bombs beyond a lot of innocent bystanders?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. Perhaps it was easier to attack Iraq than the Saudis

at the time?

[Ford_Prefect]

11. The Saudis helped put the whole thing in motion and our government, Daylight and Dark, played along

intending to enjoy the fruits of Iraqi oil and conquest, and a larger voice in our government. On the evidence it was and remains a symbiotic relationship. Perpetual war and infinite security state powers now rule the majority of foreign policy decisions. A president who came into office asserting that GITMO must be closed and the war ended has been unable to manage either, effectively despite presumably good faith attempts at both. Congress cannot speak of foreign policy except in terms of more or less war activity.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

12. Kinda my point, but you expanded on it nicely.

[Ford_Prefect]

13. My point is that the Saudis engineered the thing to enable the invasion. It is the only explanation

that makes any sense of all of the details and especially with regard to who benefited from it. If you look at the long term relationships between certain members of the Saudi Royal Family, their friends and the Bush Family Cartel it becomes clear that no matter how the towers were brought down the event was arranged for their benefit.

A purposeful plan to invade and control contemporary Saudi Arabia would result in the kind of world ending war we all used to worry that nuclear weapons would bring. The reaction to that scenario would result in the Islamic war to remove the Americans from control of Mecca and Medina and many other places as well.

[ghostsinthemachine]

2. Fuck those fucking fucks!

Sponsors of terror to this day. Fuck them. Time to carpet bomb them to the stone age and take their oil from them and free their citizens from the most henious regime on the earth. Fuck them. And fuck the Bush family too.

[Chasstev365]

4. I Saw 60 Minutes Last Night

Sadly, too many in DC (including President Obama) are willing to cover for the Bush crime family. I don't think we will ever see the 28 pages and even if we did, nothing will ever be done about it.

[felix_numinous]

7. Saudis (supposedly) attack us in broad daylight

and we end up doing their bidding. I suppose the rich perps payed enough to keep this classified for as long as they're alive. Missing 3 trillions and all.

[iandhr]

8. If POTUS does this.

He will do it during transition.

My prediction anyway.

[Gumboot]

9. And those 28 pages are gonna stay redacted...

... because any trail that leads to the Saudis, also leads to the Bushes.

And don't forget, Jeb was one of the signatories of PNAC, too. The right-wing cabal that actually called for a 'new Pearl Harbor'.

Bob Graham is a good guy, but I think he's knocking on a door that's gonna stay locked forever.