22, April 2016 Saudi
Arabia & 9/11
President Obama would do well to listen to human rights
organizations and block further arms sales to the Saudi Kingdom in the wake of
their military strikes in Yemen. The United Nations estimates more than 3,000 civilians
have died since the Saudi’s began bombing last March. As William Hartung, senior
adviser to the Security Assistance Monitor opinioned “We should not be trading Saudi friendship for
cluster bombs (banned by international law).”
Hartung latest book, "Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of
the Military-Industrial Complex" describes the incestuous relationship
between our current and past governments, war profiteers, and the kings of
Saudi Arabia. Successive Saudi monarchs
have contributed to the destabilization of the Middle East and much of the
world by promoting their austere brand of Islam (Wahhabism), indoctrinating
your children in religious schools. They have failed to resist the growing
menace of ISIS and ignored the plight of refugees, the majority of whom are
Muslims. Obama is wrong to oppose lawsuits of victims of 9/11 seeking
compensation of possible Saudi involvement. 28 pages of the 9/11 report have
still not been released. Perhaps readers will recall how special permission was
granted to Saudi officials to leave the US while all other transport was
grounded following 9/11.
The U.S. should not be intimidated by Saudi threats to
sell off U.S. assets. Let Senator
Schumer’s proposed legislation holding Saudi Arabia for possible involvement in
9/11 go forward. If they were not involved they have nothing to fear.
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