White House considers declassifying 28-page section of 9/11 report on Saudi funding of al Qaeda

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White House considers declassifying 28-page section of 9/11 report on Saudi funding of al Qaeda
Reuters
05 Feb 2015 at 16:05 ET

The Obama administration is considering whether to declassify still-secret sections of a congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks which examined Saudi Arabian support for Islamist militants, the White House said on Thursday.

Interest in the 28-page section of the report was raised after an imprisoned former al Qaeda operative, Zacarias Moussaoui, said in deposition transcripts filed this week that more than a dozen prominent Saudi figures donated to his group in the late 1990s. Saudi officials have denied this.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters that following a congressional request last year the intelligence community was undertaking a review of the decision to classify the secret section. He did not say when it might be completed.

Earnest sought to counter any concern about current U.S.-Saudi ties, saying: “The United States and Saudi Arabia maintain a strong counterterrorism relationship as a key element of our broad and strategic partnership.”

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From Deutsche Welle from last month:

http://www.dw.de/9-11-conspirator-acuses-saudi-royals-of-aiding-al-qaeda/a-18235017

Al Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui has told lawyers for terror victims that members of the Saudi royal family donated millions to the terrorist network. He is serving a life sentence for his role in the 9/11 attacks.

9/11 conspirator acuses Saudi royals of aiding al Qaeda
04.02.2015

French citizen Zacarias Moussaoui , dubbed the 20th hijacker, is the only al Qaeda member ever convicted for plotting the deadliest terror strikes in American history.

According to the lawyers for the families of the 9/11 victims, his testimony is a part of new evidence that agents of Saudi Arabia "knowingly and directly" helped the hijackers who carried out the attack.

Some families of 9/11 victims are currently waging a legal battle to prove that Saudi Arabia supported and funded al Qaeda. In papers filed in the Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, their legal representatives wrote that an "expansive volume" of previously unavailable US and foreign intelligence reports, congressional testimony, government reports and other information supports the claim.

Moussaoui's testimony was filed in opposition to the newest bid by Saudi Arabia to dismiss the lawsuits.