Topic: What was the Saudis' role in 9/11?

[rickl]

From Investors Business Daily, which is hardly a moonbat site.

A new report revealing the hijackers met in Florida with a well-connected Saudi family who fled to Riyadh just days before the attacks raises fresh concerns about the Saudis' role in the plot.

The Saudi hijackers who entered the country from San Diego also met with Saudi handlers. So now we know al-Qaida had Saudi help from coast to coast. According to the Miami Herald, investigators believe the wealthy family at a minimum knew of their guests' evil plans, and possibly aided them.

Just two weeks before 9/11, and after meetings and calls with ringleader Mohamed Atta and other hijackers, the Saudi nationals abandoned three cars, including a new Chrysler PT Cruiser, in the garage and driveway of their Sarasota home. In their haste to leave the country, they also left behind opulent furniture. A safe, however, was cleaned out. They also took a computer.

Their Sarasota home was owned by Esam Ghazzawi, a Saudi financier. He'd been on an FBI watch list for terror-fundraising. The FBI, however, never briefed the 9/11 Commission about his and the other Saudi occupants' connections to the hijackers. Congress also was left in the dark about the house search.

It's one of many mysteries surrounding the Saudis and 9/11. Other questions still unanswered after 10 years:

• Why was the section of Congress' Joint Inquiry into 9/11 dealing with "sources of foreign support for some of the Sept. 11 hijackers" kept secret from the public on the orders of President Bush?

Almost 27 full pages were blanked out — an amount equal to the entire U.S. Constitution. The section, which remains sealed, reportedly quotes from a CIA memo that concludes there's "incontrovertible evidence" that Saudi government officials supported the hijackers. Why the cover-up?

• And why were the first two hijackers who entered the country received by a Saudi government agent who secured and paid for their housing and arranged flight lessons? Was he acting on his own, or on official orders? Was he, as some investigators suspect, part of an advance team sent by the Saudi consulate to meet the hijackers as they arrived in Los Angeles?

• Was it coincidence or something more that the Saudi agent's salary was increased while settling the hijackers in San Diego? Or that he was able to tap into a $130,000 "welfare" account funded by the kingdom's ambassador to the U.S.? Was money funneled through official Saudi channels to the hijackers?

• Was another Saudi agent from New Jersey, who handled the hijackers on the East Coast, also tasked by the Saudi government?

• Who ordered the massive post-9/11 evacuation of Saudi VIPs — including two dozen bin Ladens, at least one of whom had an open terror file at the FBI — without proper investigations? Why was such a request granted, given the Saudi nationality of 15 hijackers?

• Did Saudi envoy Prince Bandar make the request while he and Bush shared cigars on the Truman Balcony of the White House on Sept. 13, 2001? Did Bush's father or James Baker, who on Sept. 10 had attended a Carlyle Group conference in Washington with bin Laden's brother, intervene? What about Bandar's old racquetball partner Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose wife once received a Jaguar as a Bandar gift?

• Similarly, why was the Saudi minister of mosques allowed to escape interrogation after feigning a heart attack when FBI agents learned he'd left his Washington hotel to check into the same budget hotel near Dulles airport as the hijackers the night before they attacked the Pentagon?

• Why was an arrest warrant for the hijackers' confidante, Anwar Awlaki — who'd worked for the Saudi Embassy as a lecturer and hajj tour guide — suddenly pulled back the day before he re-entered the U.S. on a Saudi airliner? Why was this dangerous al-Qaida recruiter allowed to leave the country for good?

• Why was the Pentagon attack staged out of a mosque built by the Saudi Embassy? The fax number to the D.C. mosque, where Awlaki preached and the hijackers worshiped, turned up in a key 9/11 planner's German flat.

If there are simple answers to these questions, let's hear them. Enough censorship by Washington. The American people deserve to know the full extent of Saudi Arabia's role in helping the hijackers.

[Libertas]

Profiler!

Racist!

Islamaphobe!

Yeah...me too!

 

[AmericanPatriot]

Oil

[charlesoakwood]

When one speaks of the Germans or the Brits they are referring to the national position not the 30% of a population in any nation of the world that has the mathematically predetermined ratio of whacos.  Or why not blame Germany for that is where Atta put his little plans together.

The Saudi government never wanted this to happen.  They had already tossed out BinLaden.  They depend on western money for oil and the west to help them with the radicals such as Iran who wants to own them.  Yes there were some Saudi whack jobs but not the Government.

The Saudi's are not Lilly white but they are not busily working, as are Iran and Pakistan and Afghanistan, for our demise.
We get those three straightened out and the rest of the world will become docile as a lamb.  Yeah, even China and Russia will put their world domination desires back in the closet.

[RickZ]

The Saudi's are not Lilly white but they are not busily working, as are Iran and Pakistan and Afghanistan, for our demise.
We get those three straightened out and the rest of the world will become docile as a lamb.  Yeah, even China and Russia will put their world domination desires back in the closet.

I'm not so sure about that. Yes, the Sowdis are not engaged in actual warfare/incidents with us like Iran or Pakistan, but their monetary support in building Wahhab mosques worldwide, including so many in the US, is the same result, islamic domination, but on a different time frame.  The Sowdis are the tortoise, the Iranians, et.al, the hare when it comes to islamic supremacism.

[rickl]

• Who ordered the massive post-9/11 evacuation of Saudi VIPs — including two dozen bin Ladens, at least one of whom had an open terror file at the FBI — without proper investigations? Why was such a request granted, given the Saudi nationality of 15 hijackers?

Remember that this occurred when all commercial flights were grounded in the United States, which was unprecedented.  Yet the Saudi VIPs were allowed to fly out.

I never saw Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, but I understand that he spent a lot of time detailing the Bush family's Saudi ties.

I have always maintained that, rather than using guilt-by-association to score cheap partisan political points, Moore could have done the country a real service by examining the full extent of Saudi influence on American politicians of both parties, not to mention their funding for universities, media, and mosque construction (as RickZ mentioned).

The Saudis are not our friends.

An easy way to reduce their influence is Drill, Baby, Drill!, and also building modern liquid thorium nuclear reactors.  Strangely, most of our political class is uninterested in doing that.

[Libertas]

• Who ordered the massive post-9/11 evacuation of Saudi VIPs — including two dozen bin Ladens, at least one of whom had an open terror file at the FBI — without proper investigations? Why was such a request granted, given the Saudi nationality of 15 hijackers?

Remember that this occurred when all commercial flights were grounded in the United States, which was unprecedented.  Yet the Saudi VIPs were allowed to fly out.

I never saw Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, but I understand that he spent a lot of time detailing the Bush family's Saudi ties.

I have always maintained that, rather than using guilt-by-association to score cheap partisan political points, Moore could have done the country a real service by examining the full extent of Saudi influence on American politicians of both parties, not to mention their funding for universities, media, and mosque construction (as RickZ mentioned).

The Saudis are not our friends.

An easy way to reduce their influence is Drill, Baby, Drill!, and also building modern liquid thorium nuclear reactors.  Strangely, most of our political class is uninterested in doing that.

Amen!

[charlesoakwood]

• Who ordered the massive post-9/11 evacuation of Saudi VIPs — including two dozen bin Ladens, at least one of whom had an open terror file at the FBI — without proper investigations? Why was such a request granted, given the Saudi nationality of 15 hijackers?

Remember that this occurred when all commercial flights were grounded in the United States, which was unprecedented.  Yet the Saudi VIPs were allowed to fly out.

I never saw Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, but I understand that he spent a lot of time detailing the Bush family's Saudi ties.

I have always maintained that, rather than using guilt-by-association to score cheap partisan political points, Moore could have done the country a real service by examining the full extent of Saudi influence on American politicians of both parties, not to mention their funding for universities, media, and mosque construction (as RickZ mentioned).

The Saudis are not our friends.

An easy way to reduce their influence is Drill, Baby, Drill!, and also building modern liquid thorium nuclear reactors.  Strangely, most of our political class is uninterested in doing that.

Amen!

 

[jpatrickham]

The Saudis, in my opinion are the Bank of Terrorism, and Pakistan is the breeding ground. Iran is the wannabe child that is trying to be relevant. The two faced Saudis will, in my opinion be the next Egypt, or Libya. Of course we will try and protect them at least, until we create our own energy field.

[Libertas]

But the Saudis fear the Persians, and the Persians dislike the Saudi's and must recoil in horror that the holy sites are controlled by those desert wretches!

I would be encouraging a Saudi-Iranian conflict, then we could deal with the battered winner that much easier.

 

 

[jpatrickham]

But the Saudis fear the Persians, and the Persians dislike the Saudi's and must recoil in horror that the holy sites are controlled by those desert wretches!

I would be encouraging a Saudi-Iranian conflict, then we could deal with the battered winner that much easier.

 

 

They all hate each other and everybody. Love to see them go at it but, stay out of it next time. Sit back, eat a little pop corn, and enjoy the show!