September 11 report raises Saudi question

[ze_dscherman]

The September 11 hijackers received foreign-government support while they were in the US plotting the attacks on New York and Washington, the leader of a congressional inquiry charged on Thursday.

The conclusion, which is hinted at in the declassified parts of the inquiry's 900-page report released on Thursday, will raise new questions about the role of Saudi Arabia in particular. The Bush administration insisted on deleting a 28-page section focusing on the link to foreign governments.

Senator Bob Graham, the former Democratic intelligence committee chairman who led the investigation, said the hijackers "received, during most of this time , significant assistance from a foreign government which further facilitated their ability to be so lethal". He would not identify the government.

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[PartyPooper]

1. Just ask BFEE. They'll tell ya'. That is, if you subpoena them all.

LIHOP is the rallying cry for this country. Please, let us all never forget!

O8)

[Maple]

2. Senator Graham

gave it away about a month ago that it was the Saudis. Then that section got classified I guess.

[w13rd0]

3. Would have been classified anyway...

...too many names that many here would go, "Hey! I've seen that name...hmmm..." And before ya know it, well...

[RedSock]

4. more from financial times

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1058868146376&p=1012571727092

snip...

"... the detailed narrative of just how much the US knew of their movements before the attacks is more than enough to belie the assertion made to the investigators last year by Robert Mueller, Federal Bureau of Investigation director, that "as far as we know, they contacted no known terrorist sympathisers in the US".

"The congressional report makes it clear that was not the case, as Mr Mueller acknowledged a few months later. The report points out that five of the hijackers had met a total of 14 people who had come to the FBI's attention as part of counter-terrorism investigations. Four of those 14 were under FBI investigation when the hijackers were in the US."


How many lies are we up to now? 1,000,000?

[quilp]

5. Any mention of the Iraqis in this 911 report?

After all we did invade and do occupy that country!

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. They all like to act as if they never heard of Project Bojinka

But in order to obtain the convictions of 3 of the terrorists who did the 1993 WTC bombing, they had to know.

In an apartment in the Phillipines, two terrorists were building bombs to blow up the pope during his visit. They managaed to catch fire to themselves and came running out with of their building on fire. They were easy to catch at that point. But what the Phillipines found in their apartment was a lot more than the makings of a terrorist attack against the pope. They also found the blueprints for the major ongoing al Qaeda terrorist plans. They knew that these guys already did the WTC, they almost got away with doing the Pope and they had extensive plans about hijacking commerical jets and using them has missiles.

Google Project Bojinka and you can see that the top levels of US Intelligence (there's an oxymoron) had to know about the plans for 9-11.