Crime & Punishment 9-13-2017

13, September 2017                       9-11 Crime & Punishment

As the nation marks the 16th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, questions persist about the role Saudi Arabia played in the attacks.  Why has Saudi Arabia been a free pass when 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia? Families and survivors are continuing their efforts to take Saudi Arabia to trial. Investigative reporter, Andrew Cockburn, has found new evidence alleging that Saudi Arabia funded a “dry run” two years before the attacks. Lawyers of the plaintiff’s families and insurance companies say the new allegations offer "a pattern of both financial and operational support" by the Saudi government.

Senator Bob Graham, the former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, co-chair of the joint congressional inquiry into the 9/11 terrorist attacks agreed that the GW Bush administration concocted a false story that Iraq was responsible for the 9/11 attacks and felt it better to “bury” Saudi Arabia’s involvement given our oil dependent economy.

Interrogators at Guantánamo were given instructions to torture detainees into falsely linking the 9/11 hijackings with Iraq. It seems the ruling elite placed a higher premium maintaining their special relationship with Saudi Arabia than the victims of 9/11. Mr. Trump’s obsequious behavior bowing and fawning in front of the “mighty” King Saud seems to confirm that that the US is on a downward morality spiral. Weapon sales to the messianic Saudi’s trump all considerations of human rights. Let’s make ‘America Great” by selling billions in weapons sales to these merchants of death.