More
than 14 years and five months after an attack which took more than
2800 lives in ways so horrible that the U.S. Government and the nation’s
television networks seamlessly colluded—in real time—to prevent the
American people from seeing what really was happening, last month some
were finally hailing a “break” in the case.
In a deposition in a lawsuit filed by families of 9/11 victims against the Saudi Government, Zacarias Moussaoui, the man authorities dubbed the 20th
hijacker, fingered a dozen prominent Saudis—including several Princes
of the Royal House of Saud— as patrons of Al Qaeda whose support enabled
the 9/11 attack.
His accusations were based on first-hand knowledge he gained, he said, while head of digital fundraising for Osama bin Laden.
Bob Graham, former chair of the Joint
Congressional Intelligence Committee inquiry into 9/11, used the
opportunity to again call for the release of 28 blank pages dealing with
Saudi Arabian complicity.
Kabuki-lite in Washington D.C.
Said Graham, “The
28 pages primarily relate to who financed 9/11, and they point a very
strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier.”
Author Anthony Summers seconded Graham’s call for the release of the material on the Saudis.
Both men cited the suspicious flight
two weeks before 9/11 of the wealthy family of Abdulaziz al-Hijji, his
wife, Anoud, and her father, Esam Ghazzawi, an advisor to a Saudi
prince, from their mansion in Sarasota, which records show was visited
by Mohamed Atta.
When the Saudi family’s panicked flight from Sarasota became public, FBI officials acknowledged the