Declassified files from 9/11 inquiry

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/28-pages-saudi-arabia-september-11.html

WASHINGTON — The long-classified document detailing possible connections between the government of Saudi Arabia and the Sept. 11 terrorist plot released on Friday is a wide-ranging catalog of meetings and suspicious coincidences.

It details contacts between Saudi officials and some of the Sept. 11 hijackers, checks from Saudi royals to operatives in contact with the hijackers and the discovery of a telephone number in a Qaeda militant’s phone book that was traced to a corporation managing an Aspen, Colo., home of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the Saudi ambassador to Washington.

The document, 28 pages of a congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is also an unflattering portrayal of the kingdom’s efforts to thwart American attempts to combat Al Qaeda in the years before the attacks.

But it is also a frustrating time capsule, completed in late 2002 and kept secret for nearly 14 years out of concern that it might fray diplomatic relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Subsequent investigations into the terror attacks pursued the leads described in the document and found that many had no basis in fact. But the mythology surrounding the document grew with each year it remained classified.

The Obama administration sent a declassified version of the document, with some redactions, to the congressional leadership on Friday. Its release on the website of the House Intelligence Committee later in the day marked the end of a years-long fight by lawmakers and families of the Sept. 11 victims to make public any evidence that Saudi Arabia may have played a role in the attacks.

It is by no means a Rosetta Stone that deciphers the lingering mysteries behind the attacks. But it is also a far more substantial document than many American and Saudi officials — from the White House press secretary to some members of Congress to the Saudi foreign minister — tried to indicate in a flurry of news conferences and emailed news releases on Friday afternoon.

And it was made public at a particularly troubled moment in America’s decades-long relationship with Saudi Arabia. The Senate unanimously passed a bill in May that would make it easier for families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the Saudi government for any role in the attacks. The bill is now being considered in the House.
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FYI, there is a twitter account, @28Pages, that was pushing for and is now providing further details about what was released. They are providing lots of links to articles about it and to other twitter accounts that have more info.
 
 
Hillary's buddies.

Is anyone surprised reading any of this?
 
GeeEm said:
Wasn't George W Bush friendly with Bandor
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Yes. The HuffPo link I posted above gives more info. It's written by a 911 widow and she is extremely critical of Bush and Obama.
 
Gardenista said:
Yes. The HuffPo link I posted above gives more info. It's written by a 911 widow and she is extremely critical of Bush and Obama.
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Um, whose administration was it that went to war with Iraq? It was beyond bizarre when the terrorists were Saudis, For some reason, the American public bought it
 
Release of ‘28 pages’ isn’t last word on possible Saudi 9/11 links

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article89917727.html

The declassification review, however, did not include a review of numerous other secret government documents about 9/11 generated by the FBI, CIA, Treasury and State departments and the National Security Agency — or even the 9/11 Commission itself.

The FBI alone has acknowledged that a single field office in Tampa holds 80,000 classified pages about 9/11. Those records are being reviewed for possible public release by the presiding federal judge in a Fort Lauderdale Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Florida Bulldog’s corporate parent in 2012.

The suit seeks the release of FBI files about the investigation of a Sarasota Saudi family with apparent ties to the hijackers that abruptly moved out of its home and returned to Saudi Arabia two weeks before 9/11 — leaving behind cars, clothes, furniture and other possessions.
 
Gardenista said:
Release of ‘28 pages’ isn’t last word on possible Saudi 9/11 links

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article89917727.html

The declassification review, however, did not include a review of numerous other secret government documents about 9/11 generated by the FBI, CIA, Treasury and State departments and the National Security Agency — or even the 9/11 Commission itself.

The FBI alone has acknowledged that a single field office in Tampa holds 80,000 classified pages about 9/11. Those records are being reviewed for possible public release by the presiding federal judge in a Fort Lauderdale Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Florida Bulldog’s corporate parent in 2012.

The suit seeks the release of FBI files about the investigation of a Sarasota Saudi family with apparent ties to the hijackers that abruptly moved out of its home and returned to Saudi Arabia two weeks before 9/11 — leaving behind cars, clothes, furniture and other possessions.
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Fifteen years and they are still covering up. Will the entire truth ever cme to light.
 
fred&edna said:
Blame to go in many directions covering many years

Bill & Hillary Clinton / Boeing / Saudi's

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/23/world/clinton-and-his-ties-to-the-influential-saudis.html

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-08-20/news/mn-25730_1_u-s-aircraft-industry

Bush & Saudi's

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/08/9-11-2011-201108

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-tangled-web-of-us-saudi-ties/

And Dallas Cowboys owner

http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyle...dallas-guest-of-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones.ece


** Politics (and sports?) make strange bedfellows
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George H.W. Bush (& FDR)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-tangled-web-of-us-saudi-ties/

Ronald Reagan

http://www.cfr.org/saudi-arabia/us-saudi-love-affair-predates-bush/p7175

http://articles.philly.com/1987-05-...ras-saudi-arabia-ambassador-prince-bandar-bin

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB265/

Jimmy Carter

http://newwest.net/main/article/bandar_prince_of_the_city/

Richard Nixon

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/19/opinion/19iht-edray_ed3__0.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellingenheld/2015/08/04/the-death-of-petrodollars/#7b370c966eec

I feel confident that if go back far enough, I can probably find no questionable relationship between Saudi Arabia and the William Henry Harrison administration.

I'm leaning towards Jerry Jones as the target for my scorn, ridicule, anger, & angst.
 
About the Sarasota home
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20160715/NEWS/160719719

Alerted by neighbors' suspicions about a lack of activity and three vehicles apparently abandoned in the driveway and garage, FBI agents converged on 4224 Escondito Circle within weeks of the 9/11 attacks. According to the counterterrorism operator and then-Prestancia Homeowner's Association director Larry Berberich, the family left mail on the table, dirty diapers in the bedroom, made beds, a refrigerator full of food, and closets with entire wardrobes intact.

The 3,300 square-foot home was owned by Saudi businessman and Royal family confidant Esam Ghazzawi, but its primary residents were his daughter Anoud, son-in-law Abdulaziz al-Hijji, then a recent University of South Florida graduate, and two small children. The Bulldog reported that gate records and security-camera photos of visitors' license plates, along with phone records, indicated Jarrah and Atta knew the al-Hijjis well.
 
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