9/11 commissioner leaks damning new info: Saudi government officials supported the hijackers

[deminks]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/911-commissioner-leaks-damning-new-info-saudi-government-officials-supported-the-hijackers/

The 9/11 hijackers had support from Saudi government employees, said a former Republican official who investigated the attacks — and he wants the Obama administration to release evidence to prove it.

John Lehman, an investment banker and Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, said his fellow 9/11 commission members had helped to obscure Saudi links to the 2001 terrorist attacks, reported The Guardian.

“There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government,” Lehman told the newspaper. “Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia.”

Lehman and other commission members have called for the release of 28 classified pages of the final report, which officially implicates Saudi Arabia as the primary source of al Qaeda funding but stops short of accusing the government of funding the terrorist organization.

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[yourpaljoey]

1. Time to tell the REST of the story

[forest444]

24. And to stop beating around the BUSH.

"What we did bothered me this much." "That much, huh?"

[malaise]

29. I see what you did there

Checkmate!

[rhett o rick]

3. Hey where are our CT monitors? You know those that are terrified of all

hints that there in trouble in River City. They don't want anyone exposing their authoritarian idols for what they really are. Tell me if they show up as I have them all on ignore.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

28. They haven't shown up. They mostly checked out of DU around the 10th anniversary. nt

[rhett o rick]

37. Not all of them. As host I could see the alerts for CT. They want to control the discussion

to only their worldview.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

39. Yup, there's a reason for that. nt

[rhett o rick]

42. Yep, they are conservatives that blindly follow their leaders. They abhor anyone speaking

truth to power. They live in their comfortable denial bubbles.

[greymattermom]

4. so what was their purpose?

How did the Saudi government benefit from 9/11?

[Vincardog]

5. Did you not read the PNAC papers? The "New Pearl Harbor" required before the US could begin to

Invade and dominate the mid east? IF not do a little research.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Could be massive oil instability for over a decade, elimination of Iraq and possibly Iran armies.

.


Who knows what sociopaths think at any given time.


.

[LiberalArkie]

13. Maybe: how much stock do Saudi individuals own in the U.S. military companies?

How much do they own in Halliburton? How much did they manage to get from our tax payers? How much of Iraq did they manage to buy?

[grahamhgreen]

15. Oil prices through the roof.

[KansDem]

20. I first I thought it was all about getting Saddam's oil...

Then I read an article that suggested it was about keeping Saddam's oil in the ground. Then it made sense:
Iraq oil on the world market? price drops. Who would that hurt? Saudia Arabia
Iraq oil in the ground? price increases. Who would that help? Saudia Arabia

[TexasBushwhacker]

44. Saddam was also open to taking Euros for oil

instead of dollars. Keeping the US Dollar as the dominant reserve currency is very important to propping up its value worldwide. Unfortunately, a strong dollar is also what makes American exports too expensive, hence the trade imbalance.

[Xolodno]

25. Think they had a plan....but it backfired, badly.

The Saudi's three main competitors in oil:

1. Iraq
2. Iran
3. Russia

The House of Saud want's to be the De Beers of oil.

Saddam wasn't stupid enough to pull something like this off as he knew the consequences. So the Saudi's supported Bin Laden to do it since he was driven by ideology. While knowing full well his organization would take a severe hit and he may gotten killed himself. But what did they care? Bin Laden wanted the House of Saud to fall as well.

They probably assumed after Saddam fell, another Sunni group would gain control, or at worst put the country into a permanent turmoil. Either way they could control or heavily influence their oil output. Plus, with access into Iraq, they could also fund/supply an insurgency in Iran. And do the same in Syria via Iraq (toppling Assad would allow them them to build a pipeline directly through to Europe and lower the cost of delivery to compete more easily with Russia)

Only it appears Iran saw this coming a mile away and heavily supported the Shiites to gain control. Coupled that with the Sunni's in Iraq unable to get their act together...

And the final nail in the coffin, Russia wasn't as weak as they though militarily and were able to back Assad up.

Iran and Russia not only blocked their oil domination plans, but turned the tables on them.

How do we benefit? Simple, Halliburton et al. hold a near monopoly on the maintenance of oil production infrastructure and contracts to build new infrastructure. Iraq still owns the oil, but we help them produce it.

Then you add we got Iran to agree with a deal on nukes and don't stand to gain much with Assad gone, there isn't much economic incentive to help out the House of Saud much more. So, why not release the report and throw them under the bus.

[Nevernose]

38. Might have been the same motivation as Bin Laden

General religious lunacy. It doesn't necessarily have to benefit the Saudi government, because it wasn't the entire government supporting 9/11.

[jtuck004]

6. Anything like how we supported the rise of the terrorist Pinochet in Chile? Or is

that completely different?

[Kip Humphrey]

7. What is more damning to me is our government colluding to let the culprits get away scot free!

[MisterP]

10. flying 'em out, in fact!

[Kip Humphrey]

12. And continuing to collude by redacting & covering up the commission report while simultaneously

preventing criminal investigations from pursuing the Saudis.

[YoungDemCA]

9. Not really a surprise. Don't forget Pakistan's ISI

nt

[FairWinds]

11. Michael Moore and others made this call early on . .

and were vilified for it.

Especially by the GOP and Neo-cons and their Reich Wing
media allies.

[99th_Monkey]

16. Many others --including me-- made this call early on

and were also vilified for it, calling it a "conspiracy theory".

I'm glad that the record's being set straight, but appalled that it's
taken 15 years do do so.

[rhett o rick]

19. Conspiracy deniers abound. They don't like anyone upsetting their bubble of denial.

In their honor I would like to put this out there. The Saudi government was involved in the WTC attack. Why? And why did our government not do anything. If the Saudi's did it all on their own, it's an act of war. It's not reasonable to think they didn't at least tell someone what they had in mind. Cheney and his people knew. Poor Georgie had an idea but was kept out of the loop. I bet his father explained it to him later.

[malaise]

30. +1,000

Everyone who expose them was villified - some were killed.
Can't wait for the report from the
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/11/chilcot-report-tony-blair-iraq


To be determined - LIHOP or MIHOP?

[Orrex]

14. Why didn't the brave investment banker et al call for Shrub to release this info?

Obama absolutely should release it, but there's no reason that it should have been redacted in the first place.

[Rass]

17. The war on terror must continue

War on terror = U.S. control of major oil sources

We need a U.S. revolution for energy independence.

[rhett o rick]

43. Pres Obama doesn't have a high enough pay grade to release this info. Maybe Gen James Clapper

does. Congress should call on him to testify. We saw how that went. The President and Congress don't run this country.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

18. MIHOP. Always was. nt

[rhett o rick]

21. MIHOP all the way. But don't tell the Conspiracy Deniers, they

will go apoplectic.

[Rex]

34. They seem to have crawled off months ago...

oh wait I have them on ignore.

[rhett o rick]

36. I love to see the numbers of posts that I can't see when I post an OP. I know they

hate it that I can't see them.

[Initech]

22. So what was on those blacked out pages?

And why did the Bush officials sneak the Saudi royals out of the country so fast?

I am pretty sure that Saudi Arabia is the worst country on earth.

[bkkyosemite]

26. Where is the pic of Bushie holding hands with the Saudi King....and then there

was the Osama's family plane only one in the sky...we have a mafia type government and have had for a long time.

[pokerfan]

35. Yeah, holding hands...

[Botany]

48. This guy's wife wrote checks to support 3 of the hijackers

2 or 3 days after 9/11 Ambassador Bandar and w bush shared coffee and cigars @ the White House.

[doc03]

27. I am not in the least bit surprised n/t

[romanic]

31. Quelle surprise!

:I

[silvershadow]

32. Huh. Just as I surmised on about 9/12/01 or so, from my recliner. nt

[Rex]

33. We've known this for a long time, yet there was Bush and Bandar...true best friends forever.

Best friends until the end.



And here he is with Poppy, planning out Gulf War I.

[NightWatcher]

40. And shrub was friends with the Saudis....

Maybe we can get the BFEE on guilt by association.

[wildbilln864]

41. Saudi government!? Saudi KINGDOM!

You do not defy the king and get by. I venture they were doing the King's bidding.

[hollowdweller]

45. Really amazing Bush shielded the Saudis while making up stuff so they could invade Iraq.

Could the whole war have been about diverting the public's attention?

[raindaddy]

46. Isn't this where the Justice Dept. steps in?

We do still have a DOJ don't we?

[sulphurdunn]

47. Well, since we killed tens of thousands

of innocent Iraqis and Afghans who had nothing to do with 9/11, it would be nice if we finally went after a few of the murderers who actually had something to do with it.

[niyad]

49. nss

[Scruffy Rumbler]

50. Thanks for waiting till now, John Lehman!

All of them should be tried as well as the bush cartel.

[FairWinds]

51. We should at least consider the possibility that the Saudi's did it . .

for the reasons given by Bin Laden and many others . .

US unconditional support for Israel.
US troops and bases in Saudi.
US attacks on Muslim countries.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/stephen-glain/2011/05/03/what-actually-motivated-osama-bin-laden