Hideous Despots Blackmail USA
Real Assassins Behind 9/11
Threaten West (Again)
Saudi Royals Supported Al Qaeda; Did They
Finance the 9/11 Attacks? Saudi King and Princes Blackmail U.S. Government
By Eric Zuesse
As has been well documented even in sworn U.S. court testimony, and as even the pro-Saudi former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged privately, “Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide.” She didn’t name any of those “donors” names, but the former bagman for Osama bin Laden, who had personally collected all of the million-dollar+ donations (all in cash) to Al Qaeda, did, and he named all of the senior Saud princes and their major business-associates; and, he said, “without the money of the — of the Saudi you will have nothing.”
So, both before 9/11, and (according to Hillary Clinton) since, those were the people who were paying virtually all of the salaries of the 19 hijackers — even of the four who weren’t Saudi citizens. Here’s that part of the bagman’s testimony about how crucial those donations were:
Q: To clarify, you’re saying that the al-Qaeda members received salaries?
A: They do, absolutely.
So: being a jihadist isn’t merely a calling; it’s also a job, as is the case for the average mercenary (for whom it doesn’t also have to be a calling). The payoff for that job, during the jihadist’s life, is the pay. The bagman explained that the Saud family’s royals pay well for this service to their fundamentalist-Sunni faith. Another lifetime-payoff to the jihadists is that, in their fundamentalist-Sunni culture, the killing of ‘infidels’ is a holy duty, and they die as martyrs. Thus, the jihadist’s payoff in the (mythological) afterlife is plenty of virgins to deflower etc. But, the payers (the people who organize it, and who make it all possible) are the Saud family princes, and their business associates — and, in the case of the other jihadist organizations, is also those other Arabic royal families (the owners of Qater, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman). However, 9/11 was virtually entirely a Saudi affair, according to Al Qaeda’s bagman (who ought to know).
The report of the threat by the Saud family comes in veiled form in an April 15th news-story in The New York Times, headlined, “Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill.” It says that the Saud family’s Foreign Minister is “telling [U.S.] lawmakers that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in [U.S.] treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.” The NYT says that this threat is nothing to take seriously, “But the threat is another sign of the escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United States.” While the carrying-out of this threat would be extremely damaging to the Saud family, the NYT ignores the size of the threat to the Sauds if their 9/11 immunity were removed — which could be far bigger. Consequently, this matter is actually quite a bit more than just “another sign of the escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United States.”
Russian Television is more direct here: “Saudi Arabia appears to be blackmailing the US, saying it would sell off American assets worth a 12-digit figure sum in dollars if Congress passes a bill allowing the Saudi Government to be held responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.” (The Saudi Government is owned by the Saud family; so, even that statement is actually a veiled way of referring to the possibility that members of the royal Saud family — the individuals name by the bagman — could be held responsible for 9/11.)
Clearly, the threat from the Sauds is real, and the royal response to this bill in the U.S. Congress reflects a very great fear the owners of Saudi Arabia have, regarding the possible removal of their U.S. immunity, after 15 years.
Prosecution of those people will become gradually impossible as they die off. But a lot more time will be needed in order for all of the major funders of that attack to die natural deaths and thus become immune for a natural reason — the immunity of the grave. The U.S. Government has protected them for 15 years; but, perhaps, not forever.
To say that this threat from the Sauds is just “another sign of the escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United States” seems like saying that a neighbor’s threat to bomb your house would constitute just “another sign of escalating tensions” between you and your neighbor. The passing-into-law of this bill in Congress would actually constitute a change from the U.S. Government being a friend and partner of the Sauds, to becoming their enemy.
Obviously, there is little likelihood of that happening; and, on April 20th and 21st, U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with Saudi King Salman al-Saud. Without a doubt, this topic will be on the agenda, if it won’t constitute the agenda (which is allegedly to improve U.S. relations “with Arab leaders of Persian Gulf nations” — not specifically with Saudi King Salman and with his son Prince Salman).
If President Obama represents the American public, then the Sauds will have real reason to fear: the U.S. President will not seek to block passage of that bill in Congress. However, if the U.S. President represents instead the Saud family, then a deal will be reached. Whether or not the U.S. Congress will go along with it, might be another matter, but it would be highly likely, considering that the present situation has already been going on for fifteen years, and that the high-priority U.S. Government foreign-policy objective, of overthrowing Bashar al-Assad, is also at stake here, and is also strongly shared not only by the Sauds but by the members of the U.S. Congress. Furthermore, the impunity of the Saud family is taken simply as a given in Washington. And, the U.S. Government’s siding with the Sauds in their war against Shia Muslims (not onlyagainst one Shiite: Assad) goes back at least as far as 1979. (Indeed, the CIA drew up the plan in 1957 to overthrow Syria’s Ba’athist Government, but it stood unused until President Obama came into office.)
Furthermore, the U.S. Government is far more aggressive to overthrow Russia-friendly national leaders, such as Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad, and Viktor Yanukovych, than it is to stop the spread of fundamentalist Sunni groups, such as Al Qaeda, ISIS, etc.; and, a strong voice for U.S. foreign policy, the Polish Government, even said, on April 15th, that as AFP headlined that day, “Russia ‘more dangerous than Islamic State’, warns Poland foreign minister”; and Russia itself is, along with Shiite Iran, the top competitor against the fundamentalist Sunni Arab royal families in global oil-and-gas export markets. So, clearly, the U.S. Government is tightly bound to the Saud family. Terrorism in Europe and America is only a secondary foreign-policy concern to America’s leaders; and the Saud family are crucial allies with the U.S. Government in regards to what are, jointly, the top concerns of both Governments.
Consequently, there is widespread expectation that some sort of deal will be reached between U.S. President Barack Obama and the Saudi leaders, King and Prince Salman, and that the Republican-led Congress will rubber-stamp it, rather than pass the proposed bill to strip the Saud family’s immunity.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
The original source of this article is
Global Research @ http://www.globalresearch.ca/saudi-royals-supported-al-qaeda-saudi-king-and-princes-blackmail-u-s-government/5520496
Copyright © Eric Zuesse, Global Research, 2016
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Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill
President Obama at a
Sept. 11 ceremony in 2015. The Obama administration argues that the bill would
put Americans at legal risk overseas. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Saudi Arabia has told
the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds
of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes
a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American
courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The
Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage,
according to administration officials and congressional aides from both
parties, and the Saudi threats have been the subject of intense discussions in
recent weeks between lawmakers and officials from the State Department and the
Pentagon. The officials have warned senators of diplomatic and economic fallout
from the legislation.
Adel
al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the kingdom’s message
personally last month during a trip to Washington, telling lawmakers that Saudi
Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and
other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen
by American courts.
Several
outside economists are skeptical that the Saudis will follow through, saying
that such a sell-off would be difficult to execute and would end up crippling
the kingdom’s economy. But the threat is another sign of the escalating
tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United States.
The
administration, which argues that the legislation would put Americans at legal
risk overseas, has been lobbying so intently against the bill that some
lawmakers and families of Sept. 11 victims are infuriated. In their view, the
Obama administration has consistently sided with the kingdom and has thwarted
their efforts to learn what they believe to be the truth about the role some
Saudi officials played in the terrorist plot.
“It’s
stunning to think that our government would back the Saudis over its own
citizens,” said Mindy Kleinberg, whose husband died in the World Trade Center
on Sept. 11 and who is part of a group of victims’ family members pushing for
the legislation…
A
spokesman for the Saudi Embassy did not respond to a message seeking comment.
Saudi
officials have long denied that the kingdom had any role in the Sept. 11 plot,
and the 9/11 Commission found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an
institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization.”
But critics have noted that the commission’s narrow wording left open the
possibility that less senior officials or parts of the Saudi government could
have played a role. Suspicions have lingered, partly because of the conclusions
of a 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks that cited some evidence that
Saudi officials living in the United States at the time had a hand in the plot.
Those
conclusions, contained in 28 pages of the report, still have not been released
publicly.
The
dispute comes as bipartisan criticism is growing in Congress about Washington’s
alliance with Saudi Arabia, for decades a crucial American ally in the Middle
East and half of a partnership that once received little scrutiny from
lawmakers. Last week, two senators introduced a resolution that would put
restrictions on American arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which have expanded during
the Obama administration.
Families
of the Sept. 11 victims have used the courts to try to hold members of the
Saudi royal family, Saudi banks and charities liable because of what the
plaintiffs charged was Saudi financial support for terrorism. These efforts
have largely been stymied, in part because of a 1976 law that gives foreign
nations some immunity from lawsuits in American courts.
The
Senate bill is intended to make clear that the immunity given to foreign
nations under the law should not apply in cases where nations are found
culpable for terrorist attacks that kill Americans on United States soil. If
the bill were to pass both houses of Congress and be signed by the president,
it could clear a path for the role of the Saudi government to be examined in
the Sept. 11 lawsuits.
Obama
administration officials counter that weakening the sovereign immunity
provisions would put the American government, along with its citizens and
corporations, in legal risk abroad because other nations might retaliate with
their own legislation. Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate panel in
February that the bill, in its current form, would “expose the United States of
America to lawsuits and take away our sovereign immunity and create a terrible
precedent.”
The
bill’s sponsors have said that the legislation is purposely drawn very narrowly
— involving only attacks on American soil — to reduce the prospect that other
nations might try to fight back.
In
a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill on March 4, Anne W. Patterson, an
assistant secretary of state, and Andrew Exum, a top Pentagon official on
Middle East policy, told staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee
that American troops and civilians could be in legal jeopardy if other nations
decide to retaliate and strip Americans of immunity abroad. They also discussed
the Saudi threats specifically, laying out the impacts if Saudi Arabia made
good on its economic threats.
John
Kirby, a State Department spokesman, said in a statement that the administration
stands by the victims of terrorism, “especially those who suffered and
sacrificed so much on 9/11.”
Edwin
M. Truman, a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said
he thought the Saudis were most likely making an “empty threat.” Selling
hundreds of billions of dollars in American assets would not only be
technically difficult to pull off, he said, but would also very likely cause
global market turmoil for which the Saudis would be blamed.
Moreover,
he said, it could destabilize the American dollar — the currency to which the
Saudi riyal is pegged.
“The
only way they could punish us is by punishing themselves,” Mr. Truman said.
The
bill is an anomaly in a Congress fractured by bitter partisanship, especially
during an election year. It is sponsored by Senator John Cornyn, Republican of
Texas, and Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York. It has the support of
an unlikely coalition of liberal and conservative senators, including Al
Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, and Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas. It passed
through the Judiciary Committee in January without dissent.
“As
our nation confronts new and expanding terror networks that are targeting our
citizens, stopping the funding source for terrorists becomes even more
important,” Mr. Cornyn said last month.
The
alliance with Saudi Arabia has frayed in recent years as the White House has
tried to thaw ties with Iran — Saudi Arabia’s bitter enemy— in the midst of
recriminations between American and Saudi officials about the role that both countries
should play in the stability of the Middle East.
But
the administration has supported Saudi Arabia on other fronts, including
providing the country with targeting intelligence and logistical support for
its war in Yemen. The Saudi military is flying jets and dropping bombs it
bought from the United States — part of the billions of dollars in arms deals
that have been negotiated with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf nations
during the Obama administration.
The
war has been a humanitarian disaster and fueled a resurgence of Al Qaeda in
Yemen, leading to the resolution in Congress to put new restrictions on arms
deals to the kingdom. Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut,
one of the resolution’s sponsors and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said that Congress has been “feckless” in conducting oversight of
arms sales, especially those destined for Saudi Arabia.
“My
first desire is for our relationship with Saudi Arabia to come with a greater
degree of conditionality than it currently does,” he said.
Jennifer Steinhauer
contributed reporting.
From The New York Times @ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-warns-ofeconomic-fallout-if-congress-passes-9-11-bill.html
The Smoking Gun: "Document 17" Links Saudi Embassy In Washington To Sept 11
With the
topic of Saudi Arabia's involvement in the Sept 11 attack on everyone's lips, if certainly not
those of president Obama who is currently in Riyadh where he is meeting with
members of Saudi royalty in what may be his last trip to the Saudi nation as US
president, many have been clamoring for the information in the suddenly
notorious "28-pages" (following the recent 60 Minutes episode) to be
released to the public so the US population can finally relegate all those
"conspiracy theories" surrounding the real perpetrator behind the
Sept 11 terrorist attack to the "conspiracy fact" pile.
It won't
have to wait that long.
As The
Times writes today, new evidence has come to light of a definitive link
between Saudi Arabian officials and the 9/11 terrorist attacks "further
raising tensions as President Obama travels to the kingdom."
According to
the report, Ghassan Al-Sharbi, a Saudi who became an al-Qa’ida bomb maker, is
believed to have taken flying lessons with some of the 9/11 hijackers in
Arizona but did not take part in the attacks on New York and the Pentagon that
killed 3,000 people in 2001.
He was
captured in Pakistan in 2002 and has since been held at Guantanamo Bay. According to a US memo, known as
document 17, written in 2003 and quietly declassified last year, the FBI learnt
that he had buried a cache of papers shortly before he was captured.
Think of
"Document 17" as a mini version of the "28 pages" whose
content has yet to be revealed. The document was written by two US investigators
examining the possible roles of foreign governments in the attacks.
One detail
leapt out at the FBI agents from the papers that Sharbi had tried to hide: his US flight certificate was in an
envelope from the Saudi embassy in Washington.
A car pulls into the Saudi Arabian embassy in
Washington, AP Photo
And
there is your smoking gun, which has been fully available to the US
government for the pat 13 years. It
should have also been available to the American public.
Understandably,
Brian McGlinchey, the activist who uncovered document 17, asked a simple question:
"The envelope
points to the fundamental question hanging over us today: to what extent was
the 9/11 plot facilitated by individuals at the highest levels of the Saudi
government?"
Here is the
problem. As the Times puts it, "president Obama is expected to meet on
Wednesday with King Salman, whose kingdom is under pressure from low oil
prices, an emboldened Iran and Washington’s tougher stance. The Saudi
government threatened last week to dump $750 billion in US Treasury securities
and other American assets if congress passes a bill that would clear a path for
the families of 9/11 victims to file lawsuits against the kingdom."
In other
words, Obama will not ask any questions of King Salman, let alone the
"fundamental" one.
So perhaps
it is time to get a president who will ask the question: Hillary Clinton and
Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidates, backed the bill, which
Mr Obama has signaled he will veto. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the leading
Republicans in the race, have warned Saudi Arabia that its relationship with
the US must change. “Friends do not fund jihadists that are seeking to murder
us,” Mr Cruz said.
Sp even as
all of Obama's potential replacements have at least promised to investigate
further, we wonder: just
why is Obama so terrified of the US public getting access to the truth?
If he is so
worried about the Saudi liquidation threat, he shouldn't be: after all the Fed
would be deliriously happy at the opportunity to monetize another $750 billion
in assets and inject three-quarters of a trillion in fresh "reserves"
aka liquidity into the system.
Meanwhile,
Obama has other problems: the US president also faces calls to release a
redacted 28-page portion of a joint congressional report on the 9/11 attacks,
produced in 2002 and thought to link senior Saudi figures to the plot. He
suggested on Monday that a decision was imminent.
We are
confident his "decision" in this matter will be to likewise prevent
the truth from emerging, because as Congressman Thomas Massie, a Republican from
Kentucky, said: "I
had to stop every couple of pages ... to rearrange my understanding of
history." No further comment necessary.
Meanwhile
the lies go on.
Bob Graham,
a former chairman of the US senate intelligence committee, has alleged that
Saudi Arabia was the principal financier of 9/11. “The effect of withholding
[the pages] has been to embolden Saudi Arabia to be a continuing source of
financial and human terror resources,” he said.
Document 17,
written by Dana Lesemann and Michael Jacobson, will deepen suspicions. Ms Lesemann is said to have been
sacked from the 9/11 commission after she circumvented her boss to access the
28 pages.
Mr Jacobson
was the principal author of the 28 pages, and document 17 hints at his
suspicions. "How
aggressively has the US government investigated possible ties between the Saudi
government and/or royal family and the September 11th attacks?"
it asks.
The answer:
not at all. It's about time the American people asked why not.
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