– 9/11 Conspirator Admits Saudi Royal Family Funded Al-Qaeda Attacks (ZeroHedge, Feb 4, 2015):
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer,” appears to be the ‘do-nothing-stupid’ strategy that Washington continues to play in The Middle East. How else to explain the continuing ‘close-ally’ relationship with Saudi Arabia given that, as Reuters reports, Zacarias Moussaoui – a former al Qaeda operative imprisoned for life for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks – has told lawyers for victims of the attacks that members of the Saudi royal family supported the Islamic militant group. Saudi officials were quick to denounce these statements as those of “a deranged criminal whose own lawyers presented evidence that he was mentally incompetent,” as he included some “extremely famous” Saudi officials as ‘donors’ during Osama bin Laden’s tenure.
A former al Qaeda operative imprisoned for life for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has told lawyers for victims of the attacks that members of the Saudi royal family supported the Islamic militant group. Zacarias Moussaoui made the statements in testimony filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday by lawyers for attack victims who accuse Saudi Arabia in a suit of providing material support to al Qaeda.
He said a list of donors from the late 1990s that he drafted during al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s tenure included some “extremely famous” Saudi officials, including Prince Turki al-Faisal Al Saud, a former Saudi intelligence chief. “Shaykh Osama wanted to keep a record who give money because … who is to be listened to or who contribute to – to the jihad,” said Moussaoui, a 46-year-old French native who pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in 2005.
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In Washington, the Saudi embassy said on Wednesday that Moussaoui’s claims appeared aimed at undermining Saudi-U.S. relations and contradicted findings of the 9/11 Commission in 2004 that there was no evidence of Saudi funding of al Qaeda.
“Moussaoui is a deranged criminal whose own lawyers presented evidence that he was mentally incompetent,” the Saudi embassy said. “His words have no credibility.” The testimony was filed in opposition to Saudi Arabia’s latest bid to dismiss lawsuits that began more than a decade ago. Moussaoui made his statements in October at the super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, where Moussaoui has been held since being sentenced to life in 2006. He wrote a letter offering to testify.
Families of Sept. 11 victims allege that Saudi Arabia and a government-affiliated charity knowingly provided funding and other material support to al Qaeda that helped it carry out the attacks.
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Most of the 19 attackers were Saudi nationals who hijacked planes and flew them into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., and into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers revolted.
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When Barry Met Sally…
This is old news. The truth of 911 is far closer to home, and the Bush administration. For years, I could not believe that our own government could be involved, but no planes flew into the second and third building that collapsed…..it was an inside job, aided by the Saudis.
The Saudis have made it clear two months ago they are done with the petrodollar and the US. Perhaps the Gitmo diary, the one page that turned into a book was the final straw. The stuff going on there to this day is worthy of the Nazis, and the Saudis have found it too politically expensive to keep sides with the US……..the US troops will soon be replaced in Saudi Arabia by Russian or Chinese. Their refusal to cut production at the request of the #1 oil producer, the US, told me the game is over.
The US is universally hated, and nothing they can do will restore their status as the world reserve currency…….it is obsolete, and no longer necessary thanks to technology. Now that OPEC has kicked the dollar to the curb, I cannot help but wonder what the real percentage of nations using the dollar to complete international trade actually is………………probably less than 30%.
The US is down the EU, and Germany, France and the UK are already finding other avenues of trade than the dollar. The dollar is sinking in value like a stone, and at home, they are sitting on piles of paper currency nobody wants.
Agreed. And continued misdirection, e.g. outside job.