"In the world which is upside down, the true is a moment of the false."
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Friday, August 01, 2003 i knew it couldn't be too long before this shit started to leak. too many people have read the full 9/11 report and are unhappy about the infamous 28 page redaction for it to remain out of the public domain for long. as i'm sure you are aware, the WH redacted those pages, a section titled "Certain Sensitive National Security Matters". these pages are largely believed to detail the involvement of certain Saudi nationals, charities and possibly members of the Saudi royal family in the 9/11 plot. some yummy tidbits from TNR: " But an official who has read the report tells The New Republic that the support described in the report goes well beyond that: It involves connections between the hijacking plot and the very top levels of the Saudi royal family. "There's a lot more in the 28 pages than money. Everyone's chasing the charities," says this official. "They should be chasing direct links to high levels of the Saudi government. We're not talking about rogue elements. We're talking about a coordinated network that reaches right from the hijackers to multiple places in the Saudi government." (....) "The official who read the 28 pages tells The New Republic, "If the people in the administration trying to link Iraq to Al Qaeda had one-one-thousandth of the stuff that the 28 pages has linking a foreign government to Al Qaeda, they would have been in good shape." He adds: "If the 28 pages were to be made public, I have no question that the entire relationship with Saudi Arabia would change overnight." (link via the incomparable talking points memo.) it's rather odd to me that significant portions of the press still seem to buy the iraq-al qaeda link when almost no one in the intel community does. but, here we have, in black and white, some evidence that the 9/11 hijackers did indeed have state support. the problem for the bushies is that that state is at least nominally an ally. ouch. i was about to ask myself why the press isn't all over this, but, now that the leaking has begun, it's only a matter of time. for some excellent analysis of the junkie/pusher relationship between the US and the Saudis, read this salon piece. it's pretty freakin' scary. UPDATE: i should probably mention that, as laura has pointed out to me, sen. bob has been all over this. he really has. i have a dog in this fight and it's sen. bob. it does indeed make me proud to see him out there fighting like he really means it. go, sen. bob, go! posted by downtown | 6:21 PM |
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