Revealed: Saudi's new links to 9/11

0 Comments | Sunday Herald, The, Aug 3, 2003 | by Neil Mackay INVESTIGATION

"Where Saudi Arabia is involved, we're soft on economic sanctions."

President Bush has said that declassifying the 28-page section would compromise intelligence sources. Democrat senator Bob Graham, former senate intelligence committee chairman, said, in a side- swipe at the Saudis: "High officials in this government, who I assume were not just rogue officials acting on their own, made substantial contributions to the support and wellbeing of two of these terrorists and facilitated their ability to plan, practise and then execute the tragedy of September 11."

The families of those who died in the terrorist atrocities seem disgusted by the way their government has failed to take on the Saudis, given the seeming mountain of evidence against them. Carie Lemack, the co-founder of the 1500-member Families of September 11 group, is angry at the suppression of the 28-page section of the report which details suspected Saudi involvement in the attacks.

Lemack, who lost her mother on American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the World Trade Centre, says: "I feel like, in an era where we're holding CEOs accountable for losing $3m, I'd hope we'd want to hold people accountable for losing 3000 lives.

"But the administration has still chosen to classify the part about who funded the terrorists. And the fact that President Bush has chosen to classify it for what he says is national security makes me question just whose security he is protecting: our nation or the Saudis?"