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Obama Administration Shuts Down 9/11 Families Lawsuit
Court case aimed at revealing Saudi Royal family links
to attacks quashed after pressure from government
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The Obama administration has effectively ended the efforts of
families of victims of the September 11th attacks to bring lawsuits
against members of the Saudi Royal family for financial links
to the conspiracy.
The Supreme Court today ruled that it will not allow any lawsuits
to go ahead, just a few weeks after the government filed a court
brief asking that the case be quashed.
The court, in an order Monday, is leaving in place the ruling
of a federal appeals court that the country and the princes
are protected by sovereign immunity, which generally means that
foreign countries can't be sued in American courts, reports
the Associated
Press.
In late May, the Justice
Department had sided in court with the Saudi monarchy in
seeking to halt further legal action to hold it liable for the
attacks.
The move came less than a week before Obama was scheduled to
meet Saudi King Abdullah as part of his "rebuilding"
trip to the Middle East.
More than 6000 family members denounced the move as an "apparent
effort to appease a sometime ally" in a public statement.
The lawsuits claimed that Saudi Arabia and four of its princes
actively aided in financing the plot through front groups posing
as charities.
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Last week, the New
York Times ran a report highlighting how documents
uncovered by lawyers for the 9/11 families “provide new
evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other
extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family.”
The documents consist of “several hundred
thousand pages of investigative material” assembled by
the 9/11 families, according to the report.
The families also point to a 28-page, classified
section of the 2003 joint congressional inquiry into 9/11 that
deals with the Saudi role in the attacks.
Senator Bob Graham, who sat on the 9/11 Commission,
has also charged
that Saudi involvement in the attacks has been covered up.
As we have previously reported, US authorities,
including the FBI, allowed
the entire Bin Laden family to fly out of the US,
and back to Saudi Arabia, in the days after 9/11, without questioning
any of them.
Furthermore, agency
documents later revealed that the FBI were aware
that Osama Bin Laden himself may have personally chartered one
of the flights. They subsequently redacted his name from the
records in order “to protect privacy interests.”
The documents provide clear proof that the FBI
was protecting the Bin Laden while the rest of the world was
being told that he had masterminded the biggest terror attack
in history. The FBI then attempted to cover up this fact.
The same documents revealed that the Bureau did
not consider a single Saudi national nor any of the Bin Laden
family worthy of investigative value.
The protection of Bin Laden by federal authorities
has been ongoing since BEFORE 9/11 when agents were told to
"back off the Bin Laden family" in order to protect
business interests that the Bush family had with the Bin Ladens
and other Saudi nationals.
The FBI asserts that no one on the planes that
left had any terrorist links, yet documents (specifically
FBI document 199I WF213589) uncovered back in November
2001 prove this to be a falsehood.
The Obama administration is now continuing the
exact same long running policy as the Bush administration by
obediently backing the Saudi monarchy and keeping secret this
vital information on 9/11.
How disgustingly ironic it is that "sovereign
immunity" is cited in a case relating to 9/11, when the
same notion of sovereign immunity is violated on a daily basis
as CIA drone delivered missiles rain down on Afghanistan and
Pakistan.
As pointed out by writer
Barry Grey, in his excellent piece on the effort
to shut down the lawsuits, any exposure given to the Saudi connection
would open the flood gates for more suppressed evidence:
"The revelations would undoubtedly shatter
the official explanations of the September 11 attacks and point
to complicity on the part of US intelligence and security agencies."
Grey writes.
"Given its longstanding and intimate ties
to the Saudi royal family and Saudi intelligence, it is not
possible to believe that the CIA would have been unaware of
Saudi support for Al Qaeda and at least some of the 19 hijackers,
15 of whom were Saudi nationals, as they were preparing to carry
out the attacks on New York and Washington."
Again, the mountain of suppressed information
regarding the most important event of the century, as well as
the continued efforts on the part of the new administration
to keep it that way, highlights the need for a new independent
investigation into 9/11.
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