CIA Director: No Evidence Saudi Arabia Officials Helped 9/11 Terrorists

CIA Director John Brennan selected the Arabic newspaper Al-Arabiya – which is Saudi-owned – to release the conclusions that were part of a secret 28-page section of a report on a Congressional inquiry.

President Obama said all or most of the report will be released as early as this month.

The 9/11 commission chairman, former Republican governor Tom Kean of New Jersey, and vice-chairman, former Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton of IN, said the commission’s investigation, which came after the congressional report was written, had identified only one Saudi government official – a former diplomat IN the Saudi consulate IN Los Angeles – as being “implicated IN the 9/11 plot investigation” Guardian reported.

CIA Director John Brennan said in an interview with a Saudi Arabian television station Sunday that he expects the 28 classified pages of a US congressional report into the September 11 attacks to absolve Saudi Arabia of responsibility.

“This was the work of Al-Qaeda, of bin Laden, [current Al-Qaeda leader] Ayman al-Zawahiri and others of that ilk”, Brennan said.

“I have a suspicion that it all came down to not damaging relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia”.

The Clinton Foundation, which is chaired by both Hillary and her husband Bill Clinton, disclosed in 2008 that it had accepted up to US$25 million from the Saudi Kingdom in the same year.

Bob Graham, have said that the pages show that a network of Saudis – including some in official positions – had supported al Qaeda terrorists in the time period leading up to the attacks.

There had been widespread speculation that these pages concern Saudi Arabia, its wealthy citizens and the financing of terrorist operations.

U.S.-Saudi ties have cooled under Obama’s presidency.

Passage of the bill sends the message that the United States “will combat terrorism with every tool we have available, and that the victims of terrorist attacks in our country should have every means at their disposal to seek justice”, Cornyn said.

The Saudi government has has also warned of impending troubles if the legislation becomes law.

Texas Rep. Ted Poe, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on terrorism echoed Roemer’s call, noting that some analysts say that followers of Wahhabi Islam might be more disposed to feel sympathetic to terrorist groups.

The 19 hijackers of 9/11 were not, as the official version goes, independently acting terrorists, Graham explained, “I believe there was systematic support for these guys”.