America didn’t receive a warning; rather, we may have been betrayed.
At Least Two Saudi Officials May Have Deliberately Assisted 9/11 Hijackers, New Evidence Suggests
Newly revealed information also raises questions about whether the FBI and CIA mishandled or downplayed evidence of the kingdom’s possible ties to the plotters.
From the start of U.S. investigations into the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the question of whether the Saudi government might have been involved has hovered over the case.
The FBI, after the most extensive criminal probe in its history, concluded that a low-level Saudi official who helped the first two hijackers in California met them by chance and aided them unwittingly. The CIA said it saw no evidence of a higher-level Saudi role. The bipartisan 9/11 commission adopted those findings. A small FBI team continued to dig into the question, turning up information that raised doubts about some of those conclusions.
But now, 23 years after the attacks, new evidence has emerged to suggest more strongly than ever that at least two Saudi officials deliberately assisted the first Qaida hijackers when they arrived in the United States in January 2000.
Whether the Saudis knew the men were terrorists remains unclear. But the new information shows that both officials worked with Saudi and other religious figures who had ties to al-Qaida and other extremist groups.
Most of the evidence has been gathered in a long-running federal lawsuit against the Saudi government by survivors of the attacks and relatives of those who died. That lawsuit has reached a critical moment, with a judge in New York preparing to rule on a Saudi motion to dismiss the case.
Already, though, information put forward in the plaintiffs’ case — which includes videos, telephone records and other documents that were collected soon after the attacks but were never shared with key investigators — argues for a fundamental reassessment of the Saudi government’s possible involvement with the hijackers.
Edit: I was gonna share an article, but it’s really sad.
I changed my mind about sharing such a sad story. Basically, a rich executive did something horrific, and got parole instead of jail time. Which, clearly suggests corruption at play.
Who will liberate America from the tyrannical billionaires?
Musk asks his followers if the US ‘should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government’
Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday asked his followers on the social platform X, which he owns, if the U.S. “should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government.”
“America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government,” Musk captioned a post with a poll on X highlighted by Mediaite, with users able to click “Yes” or “No.”
The U.K.’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, recently condemned the “lies and misinformation” undermining his country’s democracy and his record following continued attacks by Musk. The tech billionaire has recently sought to use the power of his social media network to promote far-right movements in the U.K. and Germany.
In the past few days, Musk has boosted populist and anti-immigrant figures in the U.K. and Germany, where he has significant business investments. He has pushed for new U.K. elections, gone after Starmer and voiced support for far-right figures in the country like the anti-immigrant Tommy Robinson.
Robinson was sentenced late last year to a year and a half in prison due to violating a court order prohibiting him from repeating libelous allegations about a Syrian refugee, and Musk has been calling for his release.
On Sunday, Musk said that British politician Nigel Farage should not be the leader of the far-right Reform U.K. party. In a post last week on X, Musk said “only” Farage’s party “can save Britain.”
