A bill to allow the victims and family members of the 9/11 stacks to sue the Saudi government is working through Congress. I have a few basic questions about this, which are probably due to my lack of in depth study of 9/11.
Was the Saudi government involved in the 9/11 plot? I know the hijackers were Saudi, and that they were adherents of the Saudi version of Sunni Islam. But I thought they were directed by Bin Laden, who was an exile from Saudi Arabia. As far as I know bin Laden was not a member of the Saudi government at the time of 9/11, and in fact was a pariah in Saudi Arabia, which is why he was hiding out with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Why is this now becoming an issue? 9/11 was almost 15 years ago. Did some new evidence that I am not aware of recently come to light that implicates the Saudi government?
I’d like the facts, but if this thread becomes a debate, feel free to move it to the appropriate forum.
Bin Laden was rich enough to finance the 9/11 operation because of a corrupt deal with the Saudi government: his family was granted a monopoly on construction of mosques in the country. So they could charge very high prices for their construction work, without any competition.
True, but Sanders has not been on any intelligence oversight, foreign policy, or military-related committees. (He has been on Veterans Affairs.) I have no idea if he would be entitled to read the information based on his positions, but it seems kinda doubtful.
It seems to me that rather than opening Saudi Arabia, and then the USA to law suits, it would be less damaging to declassify the so called twenty eight pages.
Both Clinton and Sanders have said they support the bill, and so presumably as president would be under considerable pressure to declassify the document.
