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LaRouche to Obama: Keep Your Promise, Mr. President — Release the 28 Pages of the Joint 911 Commission Report
July 18, 2011 • 10:09AM Lyndon LaRouche today demanded that President Obama live up to at least one of his 2008 campaign promises and finally declassify 28 pages of the Joint Congressional Report on the 911 attacks, detailing Saudi funding and other support of the plot. During his Presidential campaign, then-candidate Obama had promised to make all of the evidence public; and in February 2009, soon after his inauguration, President Obama had pledged to families of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that he would release the 28 pages of the Congressional inquiry that detailed the role of Saudi Ambassador to the United States and Bush family intimate Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, along with other members of the Saudi Royal Family, in bankrolling and otherwise supporting the 911 hijackers, 15 of whom were believed to have been Saudi nationals.
On June 24, 2009, Kristen Breitweiser, a 911 families activist whose husband was killed in the World Trade Center attack, told the New York Times that she had been personally promised by the President that he would declassify the document.
Not only has President Obama gone more than two years without declassifying the 28-page chapter of the investigation co-chaired by Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.). On May 29, 2009, just five days before President Obama made his first state visit to Saudi Arabia, then-Solicitor General (now Supreme Court Justice) Elena Kagan filed a brief before the Supreme Court, on behalf of the Obama Administration, urging the court to uphold a lower court ruling that families of the 911 victims could not sue Saudi government officials or members of the Royal Family, due to sovereign immunity. The Supreme Court sided with the Obama Administration and upheld the ruling, dismissing a law suit against five members of the Royal Family, including Prince Turki Al-Faisal Al-Saud, head of Saudi intelligence at the time of the 911 attacks.
Despite the "top secret" stamp, some of the contents of the 28-page chapter have come to public light, including the fact that two known Saudi intelligence officers, Osama Basnan and Omar al-Bayoumi, provided financial and logistical support to at least two of the 19 911 hijackers. A subsequent investigation by Executive Intelligence Review counterintelligence researchers, among others, confirmed that funds were provided to Basnan and al-Bayoumi directly by then-Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar, through an account at Riggs National Bank in Washington, D.C., that was the conduit for bribe payments from the British arms firm BAE systems, under the "Al Yamamah" oil-for-arms barter deal. Some of the funds were provided by Prince Bandar's wife, Princess Haifa, the sister of the former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki Al-Faisal.
Lyndon LaRouche emphasized today that, today, "Ten years after the 911 attacks, President Obama continues the coverup that was launched by former President George W. Bush at the time of the attacks. We know that President Bush was motivated by the need to cover up the crimes of his father's close friends in the Saudi Royal Family. I suspect that President Obama is acting under direct orders from London, since any unraveling of the role of Prince Bandar and other Saudi Royals in the 911 events would blow up the entire 'Al Yamamah' filthy offshore slush fund, that has been financing black intelligence operations and irregular warfar on a global scale since the mid-1980s."
