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Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators Say
post-gazette ^ | 01MAR12 | ERIC LICHTBLAU
Posted on Monday, March 05, 2012 3:56:02 PM by bayouranger
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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How freaking obvious can it get and how freaking stupid do they think we are??? And how freaking stupid are THEY for only ‘suspecting’ that the 19 SAUDIS who pulled off 9/11 MIGHT have ties to the freaking SAUDIS????
LORD, LOVE A DUCK!!!
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Not all 19 hijackers were Saudis in Sept. 2001, and of those that were, not one could be described as a Saudi loyalist.
One of the 19 hijackers was an Egyptian named Mohammed Atta who was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad; he had links to Syrian MB. He, not some Saudi, was the leader of the 9/11 hijackers.
In fact, the Germany-based cell from which Atta emerged consisted of a Yemeni, 2 Moroccans, 2 Syrians (besides Atta), a half-breed German/Moroccan, an Indonesian, an apparent Sudanese, a Malaysian, and some others. Guess What? Apparently no Saudis.
Another 9/11 hijacker, Marwan al Shehhi, was not a Saudi, he was born in the UAE.
Another 9/11 hijacker, Ziad Jarrah, was Lebanese.
The mastermind of the plot was KSM, a Kuwaiti and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Damn Kuwait! -Oh, wait, he may have been born in Kuwait but his parents were Pakistanis. He was about as "Kuwaiti" as Obama is American.
Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia of a Syrian mother and a Yemeni father. In the tribalistic regions of the Middle East, unlike what is the norm in our country, one's tribe and family have far more influence on your belief system than a nationality that was created by foreigners when they marked out boundaries without regard to tribal relations. Last I heard there were 14 Saudis aboard, not 19. Twelve of the Saudi citizens who hijacked planes on September 11, 2001 were not typical Saudis but were instead from the tribal regions of Saudi Arabia's southwest- in other words, more closely affiliated with YEMEN's tribes than to the more distant government of Saudi Arabia. This should not come as a surprise given OBL's partial Yemeni ancestry.
This is why al Qaeda doesn't have much of a problem finding "Saudis" to bomb Saudi targets or to use overseas. The southwestern part of Saudi Arabia is heavily influenced by the goings on of Yemeni tribesmen across the border. AQ's comfort zone is more in line with rebellious tribesmen than government and this is why AQ set up shop in Yemen with Anwar al Awlaki. OBL's turn towards islamic radicalism took place after he'd been quite the womanizer and drinker in L ebanon in the 1970s. He and his new wife went to the US where he met Azzam. OBL's former mentor and MAK cofounder Azzam was a Palestinian and a member of Arafat's PLO- not a Saudi. AQ came into existance after Azzam was killed.
That lawsuit story with former Senator Graham has been repeated endlessly for years and it's pretty much nothing but follow-the-money- the lawyers can't get Ahmadinjad's Iran or Saddam's Iraq or Tourabi's Sudan to pay up so they are looking for money from a source more likely to pay them off.
The fact is Saudi Arabia pulled OBL's citizenship years before 9/11, even before anyone on this side of the Atlantic thought OBL was a big deal, because the government of Saudi Arabia viewed him as a threat to itself. The fact is, OBL's family was harbored by Iran. The fact is, AQ is led now by an EGYPTIAN of Islamic Jihad... the other half of OBL's original dynamic duo, and not by a Saudi.
So no, 9/11 was not a "Saudi operation." Were Saudis involved? Sure. It might be easier to list what nationalities were not involved.