9/11 Families: Tell Us Full Story

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9/11 Families: Tell Us Full Story

NEW YORK CITY, July 24, 2003


"Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudi. We have clear and convincing money trails linking the Saudi princes to the terrorists. Why that's not finding its way into the report, I don't know."
Kristen Breitweiser


(CBS)  They are known as the "Jersey Girls" - widows who lost their husbands on Sept. 11 and found a mission.

"I don't want anyone to know what it's like to watch your husband burn alive on television," Kristen Breitweiser told CBS News Correspondent Mika Brzezinski .

After the attacks they fought hard for an independent investigation, showing up in Washington on a regular basis. They wanted to know why so many government agencies failed to stop the 9/11 hijackers.

"Two years out and there still seems to be a shroud of secrecy," she said.

Thursday they were back on Capitol Hill to express in person their dissatisfaction with the congressional report investigating the attacks on America.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/24/eveningnews/main565000.shtml

[Sophree]

1. "I am strong...I know my eyes are wide open"

What a horrible way to have your eyes opened.

We have to help the Jersey Girls. I'm going to go search for the link to help support the 911 families (as far as getting full disclosure in the investigation,) but if anyone has it handy, please share.

Found on www.unansweredquestions.org:

Activism:

http://www.unansweredquestions.org/activism.shtml

[Sophree]

2. Unanswered questions is asking to call your Reps

And the people on the Intelligence Committee.

I just took about 5 minutes and called Robert Wexler's office. Spoke with a nice woman.

Wanted Congressman Wexler to press the issue of why the info. on why the Saudis was left off the report. She said she didn't know a whole lot about the issue, but said the reason "they" gave was (drumroll, please) "National Security."

I said, "Yeah, I don't buy it. The families of the victims deserve more."

She said, OK, I'll be sure to pass this message on.

Quick, painless.

Here's the number for the Capitol (I have it programmed into my cell phone, which is a good idea for any DUer.)

[phone]

Ask to be connected to your rep's office.

[newyawker99]

3. Q

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Thank you.

NYer99
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4. Sorry...

...but they were such short paragraphs I thought I was within the 'fair use' clause.

- And thanks for the kick.

[shance]

6. This is a great idea Sophree***

Im sending this number around to friends to put on their mobiles. This should get more people calling.***

[Octafish]

5. A kick and a Saudi-House of Bush link.

A kick top for a most important cause. And while we're on the subject, an outstanding resource on the Bushes and the Saudis and 9-11:

The Bush-Saudi Connection

By Michelle Mairesse

Ancestral Voices

In 1920, under a League of Nations mandate, officials from France and Great Britain carved up vast tracts of warlord-dominated territories in Arabia into what they imagined would be nation states devoid of the complex historical, cultural, and tribal realities of the Mideast.

Instead of establishing European-style nation states, the strongest warlords quickly entrenched themselves with the aid of standing armies and spy networks. In much of the Mideast, fealty is often accorded to tribal overlords and the Islamic sects they favor rather than to the territory and people within the boundaries of the nation state. Jonathan Rabin succinctly defines the reality, past and present, of the desert sheikdoms: "The systems of government that have evolved in Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are paranoid family dictatorships with ancestral roots in a single city or village." (1)

Islamic fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden make their appeals to the nation or community of believers, not to any particular nation state, although the rich and powerful among the Muslims have founded Western-style businesses and formed corporations both inside and outside the boundaries of their native countries. Because Osama himself is a scion of a rich Saudi family with wide-ranging business interests throughout the world, the split Saudi personality is most evident in him and the bin Laden clan. Osama, who calls America "The Great Satan," has done business with the infidel Americans whenever it suited him.

Throughout the eighties, when the United States assisted the Saudis in a giant military buildup of airfields, ports, and bases throughout the kingdom, many of the contracts were awarded to the largest construction company in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Binladen Group, founded by Osama bin Laden’s father.

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http://www.hermes-press.com/BushSaud.htm