Posted on 12/04/2017 5:21:17 AM PST by RoosterRedux
A drawn-out fight between the families of Sept. 11 victims and the Saudi government has been shocked anew with claims from former top U.S. intelligence officials that Riyadh provided aid to some of the terrorists responsible for killing 2,996 and injuring more than 6,000 in 2001.
Affidavits filed by three former FBI officials provided to Secrets charge that Saudi Arabia used intricate espionage “tradecraft” to help the attackers prepare and hide out in the U.S.
And another from knowledgeable former Florida Sen. Bob Graham charges that the hijackers could not have succeeded without a financial and logistical support network.
“Official Saudi entities provide financial and other support to individuals in the United States and around the world who are associated with terrorism,” said former FBI spy catcher Mike Rochfort, the ex-chief of the espionage section of the FBI’s counterintelligence division.
Stephen K. Moore, the retired FBI agent who led the Sept. 11 probe in Los Angeles, said in his affidavit that Saudi officials cared for the two terrorists that flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar.
“Upon their arrival in southern California, Hazmi and Mihdhar were promptly cocooned by a highly matrixed network of aiders and facilitators who cleared a path to their success – supplying every physical and spiritual need to advance their mission," he wrote.
David Mitchell, a former FBI terrorism investigator, added, “I concluded that diplomatic and intelligence personnel of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia knowingly provided material support to the two 9/11 hijackers and facilitated the 9/11 plot.”
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George Bush allowed the terrorists family members go back to Saudi Arabia soon after 9/11 while blocking all flights for the rest of us.
Ditto. Awaleed funded the muslim center on the campus of Georgetown University, minutes from the Federal area of DC. You can't tell me he didn't use it strategically.
As far as I can tell, the Saudis own a lot a of media and a lot of politicians - including the entire Bush family.
Trashcanistan made sense - it was where bin Laden lived.
Iraq is stranger. I think it was done as an example to the Saudis of what was going to happen to them if they didn’t restrain their behavior.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he would draw up a list of extremist organizations to convey to Saudi Arabia after its crown prince pledged to cut their funding.
“He never did it publicly, but when I went to Riyadh (this month), he made a commitment, such that we could give him a list and he would cut the financing,” Macron said during an interview with France 24 television.
“I believe him, but I will follow up. Trust is built on results,” Macron added.
“He never did it publicly, but when I went to Riyadh (this month), he made a commitment, such that we could give him a list and he would cut the financing,” Macron said during an interview with France 24 television.
“I believe him, but I will follow up. Trust is built on results,” Macron added.
Macron, speaking from Abidjan, said he had also sought commitments to cut financing of extremist groups from Qatar, Iran and Turkey.
The French leader will make a quick trip to Doha on Dec. 7, where he will discuss regional ties and could sign military and transport deals, including the sale of 12 more Rafale fighter jets.
HR McMaster condemned Qatar and Turkey for taking on a “new role” as the prime sponsors and scources of funding for extremist Islamist ideology that targets Western interest.
“Radical Islamist ideology is obviously a grave threat to all civilised people” Mr McMaster said.
The US national security adviser said this threat has been identified “myopically” in the past.
“We didn’t pay enough attention how it’s [radical Islamist ideology] is being advanced through charities, Madrassas and other social organisations.”
While Mr McMaster made reference to Saudi Arabia’s support for some of these organisations decades ago, he singled out Qatar and Turkey as main supporters at the present time. “[It] is now done more by Qatar, and by Turkey,” he said.
He went on to claim Turkey’s growing problems with the West were largely due to the rise of the Justice and Development Party in Ankara.
https://www.thenational.ae/world/the-americas/us-national-security-adviser-qatar-and-turkey-are-new-sponsors-of-radical-ideology-1.683989
13 December 2017: Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said Tuesday that Qatar funds some terrorist organizations in the region, Emirati Erem News reported.
Speaking at a seminar on “Terrorism, Extremism and Regional Security in West Asia,” Alavi said, according to Erem News, that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Organization and Saudi Arabia’s Wahabbis are the roots of Islamist terrorism.
“One of the factors leading to the emergence of terrorism is insulting and despising religious minorities in some countries,” Alavi stated.
Speaking about the Islamic State (IS), Alavi said that (IS) does not have sovereignty anymore, but still exists. “They lost the lands they had control on, but did not lose their arms,” Alavi added.
“The (IS) is looking for ‘landing in’ Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia to restore the idea of establishing an Islamic Caliphate,” Alavi pointed out.
In November, the CIA released documents found after killing founder and head of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, claiming past connections between Al-Qaeda leaders and Iran.
“Irani people are Twelver Shia. The way they view Sunni Muslims is clear and known. Their ambition to control the Islamic world is known as well. However, they would cooperate with the strictest Salafists and Wahhabis (Islamic branches that oppose Shia), if they thought it would serve their interests even if temporarily, and then renounce them in the proper time,” said one of the documents dated 1428 A.H. (2008) and written by an anonymous writer, apparently an Al-Qaeda senior operative.
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/36668/Alavi-announces-that-Qatar-supports-terrorism-Erem-News
HR McMaster:
While stressing that not all the Muslim Brotherhood branches were alike, he urged to build opposition groups that respect individual freedoms, and in order to avoid another “Morsi model” in reference to former Egyptian president overthrown in 2013. Gen McMaster said that the Brotherhood operated clandestinely and monopolised opposition after the street upheavals and fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
The other model that Gen McMaster identified with the Brotherhood is Turkey’s AKP. “By operating through civil society, they consolidate power through one party, sadly it is a problem contributing to Turkey’s drift from the West” he said.
On Iran, Gen McMaster described the government in Tehran as a “rogue regime also and a revisionist regional power” and said “We need to counter destabilising activity especially in Syria” as well as blocking support for its proxies and its paths to nuclear weapons. He also advocated looking for sanctions outside the nuclear deal, and abandoning the Barack Obama approach that made the deal itself a focal point of the strategy toward Iran.
“Upon their arrival in southern California, Hazmi and Mihdhar were promptly cocooned by a highly matrixed network of aiders and facilitators who cleared a path to their success – supplying every physical and spiritual need to advance their mission,” he wrote.
This came out several years ago. Not news.
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