THE COZY
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BUSH’S & THE HOUSE OF SAUD
Former
President George W. Bush kissing Fahda bint Asi Al Shuraim’
The King of
Saudi Arabia. Theirs was not a kiss and tell romance.
Just how
many of their dealings were sealed with a kiss?
TAGS:
9-11-01 VICTIMS AND NEXT OF KIN OF VICTIMS GRANTED LEGAL AUTHORITY
TO
SUE SAUDI ARABIA, HOUSE OF BUSH – HOUSE OF SAUD, SAUDIS PERMITTED
UNPRECEDENTED
PERMISSION TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY AFTER 9-11-01, WHO GRANTED PERMISSION,
SAUDI
GOVERNMENT AIDED AND ABETTED 9-11 HIJACKERS, SAUDI RELIGIOUS LEADERS
PROVIDED
MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR THE 19 HIJACKERS, MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS,
WILL
WE EVER KNOW THE TRUTH?
(Friday December 20, 2013,
Falls Church, VA) The small northern
Virginia city of Falls Church is like many other similar communities in Fairfax
and Arlington Counties. These towns and
suburban enclaves are primarily bedroom communities populated by the huge
contingent of personnel it takes to keep all the federal government’s apparatus
running. A significant number of the workforce required for the tasks involved
from top political appointees to the legions of bureaucrats, functionaries,
operatives and clerks opt to live around the periphery of Washington, DC. It could be argued that more federal
employees live within a 25 mile radius of The District center than any other
place. Many of the residents here are
actively employed by the political-public relations-lobbyists complex and are
as familiar with the minutiae of the law as they are the maneuvers of politics.
These are the people who know the ins and outs of how government and politics
work. They are all familiar with the DC
axiom that usually assures a hot news item that could be potentially
embarrassing to an Administration is best leaked to the press late on a Friday
afternoon or while the bone-headed members of Congress have fled the District
and returned to their homes to raise money for their next campaign.
Today the powers that be
managed to pull a trifecta of a sort and from all indications it has been
successful. Not only was a major news
story dropped inside the Beltway yesterday but it landed while Congress has
departed and the President himself is enjoying the sun, surf and sand of his
native Hawaii. These three elements made yesterday a great time to make a
revelation that will open a can of worm most Americans have long considered
closed but if opened will be laden with an importance that could have far
reaching implications.
Yesterday a three judge panel
in the 2nd United States Court of Appeals reversed a previous ruling
handed down by a different three judge panel in the same Court back in
2002. The announcement yesterday clearly
stated the legal footing that plaintiffs, primarily surviving members of those
lost to the attacks of September 11, 2001 can sue the government of Saudi
Arabia for what amounts to but falls just short of overtly accusing them of
providing funding and support for the 19 members of al Qaeda, 15 of whom were
Saudi nationals alleged to have hijacked and crashed US based airplanes. There
have long been serious doubts regarding the support provided to the members of
al Qaeda who managed to infiltrate the US by members of the Saudi Royal family
and wealthy religious and business leaders inside the Saudi Kingdom. That it has taken over 12 years for a
decision such as that made public yesterday to be granted is not only proof of
the lumbering nature of our Court system but more so of the unique influence
and power the Saudis had over the Cheney/Bush administration. Actually, the relationship between the two dynastic
governments, “The House of Bush and The House of Saud” was forged decades ago,
built on partnerships in the oil industry and was dramatically strengthened
during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush and his oil baron cronies. The Saudis have long enjoyed working with US
administrations provided they were unflinching in their loyalty.
THE FIRST 40 HOURS
There are a substantial number
of conspiracy theories and alternate accounts directly contrary to that
provided by the Bush Administration, the 9-11-01 Commission, the Congressional
Investigative report on 9-11-01 many of which are highly compelling. Some offer strong physical evidence to
support their arguments and still others have garnered a staunch following of
thinking Americans who see evidence that does not even closely comport with the
official narrative.
Serious questions, claims and
counterclaims were already in full flight within the first 40 hours after the
dust began to settle at the World trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon
in Washington, DC and an anonymous grassy field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Some of those very same questions remain
gnawingly unanswered despite the intervening 12 years.
By Presidential authority and
Vice Presidential edict every private and commercial airplane over the
continental United States was grounded within four hours of the terrorist
attacks. As US military fighter jets
were scrambled in a haphazard manner, to say the least, the airspace over the
United States was closed to all traffic for the next 4 days. One of the first questions to arise from
employees at two airports within the greater Washington, DC area was why were
there jetliners flying under the state flag of Saudi Arabia granted clearance
and permission to leave the US? It was
during this same timeframe that several smaller luxurious private jets owned by
the bin Laden Group, the family business of which the spiritual leader of al
Qaeda was an heir, were also granted permission to extricate members of the
extended bin Laden family who were studying abroad here in the USA back to
Saudi Arabia. One Air Force General
speaking not for attribution recently commented that, “It was more than odd the
way the commands came down to us. In my
mind it was as if the official “chain of command” had been severed and we were
being ordered about by political operatives in the White House. One flight that departed Dulles on the 12th
(September 12, 2001) had over 75 Saudi nationals the majority of whom were
members of the extended bin Laden family.
No one was asked to present so much as a passport to board that plane
and I remember wondering, ‘what’s going on here’.”
AIDING AND ABETTING
Many people from top
government, military and intelligence insiders to civil, forensic, and structural
engineers, to metallurgists, physicists, architects and others from a host of
related fields have never believed any of the party line. They have amassed a copious amount of data
from the site, collapse and aftermath and subject it all to the most rigorous,
objective standards of their respective disciplines. Individually and collectively these learned
men and women have been able to substantiate their gut instincts with audio,
video and physical proof.
Working on the darker side of
the street have been members of our federal and military intelligence machinery
and other agencies have professed to being motivated and focused investigating
each and every aspect of the 9-11-2001 atrocities. For some, such a statement of purpose rings
on hollow ears. Had our CIA and FBI been
effectively communicating with each other, had the National Security (NSA) and
Department of Defense (DoD) been able to extract “actionable intelligence” from
the staggering amount of conventional and digital data; “chatter”, as they call
it, the staggering amount of information they routinely intercept, then,
possibly, 9-11-2001 would never have happened.
It is highly disturbing now, this far out, to finally recognize that
those 19 terrorists may have in fact been state-sponsored operatives of the
Saudi regime.
If nothing else emerges from
the release of more information that has been classified since 2001, the fact
that no small number of Saudis, from members of their government to wealthy
citizens as well as Imams preaching to and reaching a segment of the misguided
zealots, the young male unemployed population in the Kingdom, it is now
factually established that the 19 hijackers received financial and material
support for their devious lethal mission.
Saudi Arabia has long been
considered as an ally albeit a self-centered entity unreliable when it has come
to American interests. American
Administrations over the last 50 years have done the Saudi’s bidding ostensibly
to have a “politically stable” government in their perpetually tumultuous,
often violent, part of the world. While
that may be the official party line, everyone knows our kinship with the Saudis
has been based on one specific commodity; a commodity that we consume 25% of
the world’s production of- crude oil. The
geopolitical intricacies of oil have directed our foreign policy in the Middle
East for two generations. As the royal
Saudi family is aging and unrest among their citizens continues to fester and
grow, the Saudi regime found it was easier to pacify their homegrown
fundamentalist movement, known terrorist within their sovereign borders, and
otherwise pay off their extremists so those dangerous entities would refrain
from making trouble within Saudi Arabia.
As long as a radicalized native son of a very wealthy Saudi construction
company, Osama bin Laden, was fighting the Soviet troops in Afghanistan, the
Saudis were ready and generous financiers of bin Laden’ mujahidin. When Sadaam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990
bin Laden offered his mujahidin fighters to defend against an advancing Iraqi
army that could easily challenge the Saudi defense capabilities. Not only was bin Laden rebuffed by the House
of Saud, the Saudis invited American troops to defend the land of the two
holiest sites in Islam. Bin Laden would
be heard from again.
THE SAUDIS CLOSED RANKS
Within hours of the terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001 Saudi nationals, most of whom were attending some
of the most prestigious universities in America, others working in high
finance, banking and related fields in which Saudi Arabia had interests, began
making arrangements for a quick departure.
Some were members of the extended bin Laden family, others were part of
the sizable diplomatic corps, employees of the Saudi Embassy and Consulates;
others still were “businessmen” of dubious distinction. The planning for their departure was well
coordinated and, in large part, logistically supported by the Saudi government.
By September 12th,
2001 most of those who were being spirited out of the country were assembling
at Dulles Airport just miles from Washington, DC. Overnight numerous small private jets had
picked up passengers from non-descript somewhat remote airfields from locations
including Charlottesville, Virginia, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and Los
Angeles. Given the fact that there was a
complete lock down in effect for the airspace over America, how was it that
these flights were granted some sort of an exemption to the “no-fly” orders
from the White House? By whose authority
were these flights permitted to leave the United States? Clearly the decisions made in this regard came
directly from the White House, specifically as the growing evidence has
illustrated, from the Office of the Vice President Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney has enjoyed a cozy relationship
with the Saudis for decades both while he was working in government and during
his stints in the oil industry most notably when he was the CEO of Halliburton.
OATH OF SILENCE
From the highest ranks of the
military including the Joint Chiefs down to the dozens of airmen who made this
exodus possible were ordered to sign an oath of silence under the auspices of “national
security”. Given the confusion and shock
still palpable the day after the terrorist attacks, the men and women who
worked the tarmacs, control towers and other support roles necessary for the
long flight to Saudi Arabia, they signed the oaths put before them under
penalty of disciplinary actions including the possibility of Court Marshall. Many dared not question what was going on and
merely accepted their orders and carried out their duties. Now, over 12 years after the fact more
details are emerging regarding the Saudi flights and some involved have decided
to speak about the events in some detail.
A retired air traffic control
who was working at a smaller airport that catered to private jets in central
Virginia, speaking anonymously for fear of government retaliation recently
commented, “You’re dammed right I was confused.
I really did not know what was going on.
We were receiving countervailing directives from the Department of Defense,
the Department of Transportation and even an Air Force General. I signed the
nondisclosure agreement under protest but I was afraid I had no choice but to
do so. I am still amazed that this story
has not caught on. The press really
dropped the ball on this one”.
It remains to be seen what
details, if any, become known publically now that next of kin of those who
perished that Tuesday morning in 2001 and survivors have been granted the legal
right to sue the government of Saudi Arabia. But, as most will say this process
is not about a financial settlement or money, it is about truth. There is so much to this odd chapter that was
written on September 11, 2001 and the days immediately thereafter Perhaps some of the details will become known
in a court of law but it is more likely that any potential lawsuit will take
years of legal maneuvering and wrangling before it ever sees the inside of a
courtroom. There are vitally important issues
at stake here; there is the credibility of the Cheney/Bush Administration and
they should be called to task to explain their roles in the great Saudi exodus
of September 12 and 13, 2001. Nothing short of full disclosure should be
acceptable. We, each of us as American
citizens is entitled to the truth. In
the past our government has conducted far too many amoral acts from testing LSD
on unwitting servicemen, studying the effects of nuclear fallout on members of
the military and a veritable cookbook of experiments and studies all conducted
in the name of national security. If
this particular story does come to light then those involved should be held
accountable. Accountability is a rare commodity
in Washington, DC but we can only hope, watch and wait to see how this
develops.
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