{"id":53947,"date":"2016-04-20T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=53947"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:45:34","slug":"obama-under-pressure-to-release-secret-pages-of-911-report-showing-saudi-arabia-financed-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/04\/20\/obama-under-pressure-to-release-secret-pages-of-911-report-showing-saudi-arabia-financed-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama under pressure to release secret pages of 9\/11 report &#8216;showing Saudi Arabia financed attacks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"Harriet Alexander\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/journalists\/harriet-alexander\/\">Harriet Alexander<\/a>,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and Peter Foster in Washington<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2>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<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 17.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Obama administration is facing renewed pressure to release a top secret report that allegedly shows that<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"outline: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/saudiarabia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"color: #234b7b; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/b><\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>directly helped to finance the September 11<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"outline: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/september-11-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"color: #234b7b; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">attacks<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 17.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 17.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 17.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 17.25pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/september-11-attacks\/11653706\/US-report-claiming-Saudi-Arabia-financed-911-attack-redacted-by-Bush.html\">Full Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 17.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><!-- [if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id=\"_x0000_t75\" coordsize=\"21600,21600\" o:spt=\"75\" o:preferrelative=\"t\" path=\"m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe\" filled=\"f\" stroked=\"f\">\n<v:stroke joinstyle=\"miter\"\/>\n<v:formulas>\n<v:f eqn=\"if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"sum @0 1 0\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"sum 0 0 @1\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"prod @2 1 2\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"prod @3 21600 pixelWidth\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"prod @3 21600 pixelHeight\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"sum @0 0 1\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"prod @6 1 2\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"prod @7 21600 pixelWidth\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"sum @8 21600 0\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"prod @7 21600 pixelHeight\"\/>\n<v:f eqn=\"sum @10 21600 0\"\/>\n<\/v:formulas>\n<v:path o:extrusionok=\"f\" gradientshapeok=\"t\" o:connecttype=\"rect\"\/>\n<o:lock v:ext=\"edit\" aspectratio=\"t\"\/>\n<\/v:shapetype><v:shape id=\"_x0000_i1025\" type=\"#_x0000_t75\" alt=\"\" style='width:465pt; height:290.25pt'>\n<v:imagedata src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\\Users\\DHARMA~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\msohtmlclip1\\01\\clip_image001.jpg\" o:href=\"cid:part13.00060600.07030907@spur.asn.au\"\/>\n<\/v:shape><![endif]--><!-- [if !vml]--><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"a-header\">Saudi Arabia&#8217;s financial involvement in the 9\/11 attacks: An explainer<\/h1>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has long been rumored to have helped finance the 9\/11 attacks. Here\u2019s a roundup of key information surrounding the mystery:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What connection did the hijackers have to Saudi Arabia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of the 19 hijackers, 15 were citizens of Saudi Arabia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Did the U.S. government uncover evidence of Saudi ties to the attacks?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s unclear. The Bush administration chose to classify 28 pages of a 2002 joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/CRPT-107hrpt792\/pdf\/CRPT-107hrpt792.pdf\">Congressional report<\/a> that includes information suggesting specific sources of foreign support for some of the September 11 hijackers while they were in the United States.\u201d The report notes that neither the FBI or CIA were able to address definitely the extent of such support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 17.25pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/explainer-saudi-arabia-financing-9-11-attacks-article-1.2605775\">Full Report<\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: -40px; overflow: hidden; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\\Users\\DHARMA~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\msohtmlclip1\\01\\clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" name=\"Nawaf-al-Hazmi\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"a-header\">President Obama blasted by Sept. 11 victims\u2019 families for opposing legislation that could let them sue Saudi Arabia for 2001 terrorist attacks<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/9-11-families-blast-president-obama-opposing-legislation-article-1.2607855\">Full Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 17.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><!--[endif]--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline-block;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Harriet Alexander,\u00a0and 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\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0directly helped to finance the September 11\u00a0attacks. 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