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FILE PHOTO: A U.S. Army helicopter hovers before landing in front of the damaged area of the Pentagon Building September 17, 2001© Larry Downing / Reuters |
As President Obama holds off a major decision about whether to release 28 pages from the 9/11 report, a slew of details have been coming to light exposing Saudi links to the 2001 terror attacks.
The pressure to declassify the 28 pages, which allegedly recount the connections between Saudi Arabia and Al-Qaeda’s deadly September 11 attacks, has been mounting over the past few months.
However, the White House is still reportedly evaluating the files that have been kept under lock and key since 2002 and the decision about whether they should be released is not expected to occur until later this summer.
In the meantime, as if to either assuage the public or press harder on Obama’s decision-making, more and more details have been surfacing here and there. These revelations have been bringing the disturbing facts pointing to the Saudis, both officials and citizens, and their supposed involvement in helping make the Al-Qaeda attacks a terrifying reality.
“There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government,” John F. Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, told the Guardian.
Some of the files about 9/11 investigation have been declassified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and are said to mirror the information contained in the much-demanded secret pages.
With so much information floating around, it can be hard to make sense of things. RT collects the major facts that have come to light so far.