By Harriet Alexander, and Peter Foster in Washington

A long running campaign over redacted pages of a Senate report into 9/11 which allegedly reveal Riyadh as the principle financier is gathering new momentum

The Obama administration is facing renewed pressure to release a top secret report that allegedly shows that Saudi Arabia directly helped to finance the September 11 attacks.

Rand Paul, the Libertarian Republican senator from Kentucky, is demanding that Mr Obama declassify 28 pages that were redacted from a 2002 US Senate report into the 9/11 attacks.

Mr Paul, who been vocal in attacking the bulk NSA spying programmes revealed by the rogue security contractor Edward Snowden and is running for president in 2016, has now promised to file an amendment to a Senate bill that would call on Mr Obama to declassify the pages.

The blacked-out pages, which have taken on an almost mythical quality for 9/11 conspiracy theorists, were classified on the orders of George W. Bush, leading to speculation they confirmed Saudi involvement.

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Saudi Arabia has long been rumored to have helped finance the 9/11 attacks. Here’s a roundup of key information surrounding the mystery:

What connection did the hijackers have to Saudi Arabia?

• Of the 19 hijackers, 15 were citizens of Saudi Arabia.

Did the U.S. government uncover evidence of Saudi ties to the attacks?

• It’s unclear. The Bush administration chose to classify 28 pages of a 2002 joint Congressional report that includes information suggesting specific sources of foreign support for some of the September 11 hijackers while they were in the United States.” The report notes that neither the FBI or CIA were able to address definitely the extent of such support.

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