Finally, We're Looking at the Saudi Connection to 9/11?????
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RUSH: There's some other news out there I want to touch on before we get back to the heated elements of the Republican presidential campaign. 60 Minutes did a story on Sunday. I have been waiting for this. For years I have been waiting for this. 60 Minutes did a story on Sunday night that left little doubt that the Saudi Arabian government had direct ties to the 19 hijackers that perpetrated the crimes on 9/11.
I can take you back to that day. I can take you back to that day and the ensuing days after when we learned who those 19 hijackers were. Mohammed Atta and the gang. And 17 of the 19 were from Saudi Arabia. And I said, "How does this not have something to do with the Saudi government?" I mean, we already knew that the Saudi royal family are -- pardon the language -- the head honchos-of-Islam in Saudi Arabia. They run the mosques at Mecca and so forth. They are the custodians, and their version is Wahhabism.
I didn't hear anybody make the connection because the Saudis are always known as "our friends, the Saudis." And the Saudis are our friends the Saudis because of oil. Not that I have a problem with oil, but we need it, they had it, and so we were always -- we defend them, we have air bases there, we've undertaken many missions to defend the Saudis. We have terrorism against the Saudi government taking place in their country, against us as well. But nevertheless I always wondered why nobody was making the connection.
It turns out they did, and it was redacted in the official 9/11 committee report, the commission report, 28 pages had redacted data about the ties the hijackers had to actual members of the Saudi government. And it always struck me that this might be something a whole bunch of government officials would like to have nobody know because there's no way we're gonna sever our relationship with the Saudis, primarily because of oil. Even now because of fracking we're on the road to energy independence as it is, without all that solar and wind that isn't mattering, by the way, a Shinola.
It is irrelevant to our entire energy profile, the amount of energy we get, efficient or otherwise, from wind and solar and all this so-called clean stuff. It may someday amount to something, but it hasn't yet. It's still a world fueled by oil, fossil fuels, and it's gonna be that way for the foreseeable future. But nevertheless it just struck me that, look at what we have to hide, cover up, or what have you. And all these years later now, that happened in 2001, basically 15 years.
"This weekend CBS’s 60 Minutes ran a fascinating report on the now-famous 28 pages redacted from the joint congressional report on intelligence activities before and after the 9/11 attacks." And apparently a couple of the hijackers, "During their first days in LA, witnesses place the two future hijackers at the King Fahd mosque in the company of Fahad al-Thumairy, a diplomat at the Saudi consulate known to hold extremist views. Later, 9/11 investigators would find him deceptive and suspicious and in 2003, he would be denied reentry to the United States for having suspected ties to terrorist activity."
They quoted Tim Roemer, who's the Indiana Democrat who ended up being a celebrity of sorts on the commission. "This is a very interesting person in the whole 9/11 episode of who might’ve helped in Los Angeles and San Diego two terrorists who didn’t know their way around." So just an item that hasn't gotten a lot of it notice because so many other things in the news are taking precedence over it.
I remember, I was talking to Mr. Buckley shortly after 911, and I looked plaintively at him, and I said, "Bill, 17 of the 19, they're Saudis." He looked at me like I had said something greatly offensive. "So what?" And I said, "So what? How can that be ignored?" He said, "Well, you got individual criminals all over the world that may be American, do they have ties to the American government." I said, "No, but these guys happened to have the same point of view that the Saudi government does." I mean, how can we just immediately rule it out. And then I got the question of all questions, "Well, if you find a connection, you let me know and you tell me what anybody's gonna do about it."
And now it's interesting the way things have played out because we once again find ourselves allied with the Saudis against the Iranians. Ah, ah, ah, ah, sorry, that used to be. We're not against, right, I forgot, we're not against the Iranians. Damn it. Time went by. We're not against the Iranians, we're helping them nuke up, and that's why the Saudis are a little concerned.
WHO ELSE IS GOING TO BE BLAMED FOR 9/11 TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE ACTUAL PERPETRATORS
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-911-classified-report-steve-kroft/
RUSH: There's some other news out there I want to touch on before we get back to the heated elements of the Republican presidential campaign. 60 Minutes did a story on Sunday. I have been waiting for this. For years I have been waiting for this. 60 Minutes did a story on Sunday night that left little doubt that the Saudi Arabian government had direct ties to the 19 hijackers that perpetrated the crimes on 9/11.
I can take you back to that day. I can take you back to that day and the ensuing days after when we learned who those 19 hijackers were. Mohammed Atta and the gang. And 17 of the 19 were from Saudi Arabia. And I said, "How does this not have something to do with the Saudi government?" I mean, we already knew that the Saudi royal family are -- pardon the language -- the head honchos-of-Islam in Saudi Arabia. They run the mosques at Mecca and so forth. They are the custodians, and their version is Wahhabism.
I didn't hear anybody make the connection because the Saudis are always known as "our friends, the Saudis." And the Saudis are our friends the Saudis because of oil. Not that I have a problem with oil, but we need it, they had it, and so we were always -- we defend them, we have air bases there, we've undertaken many missions to defend the Saudis. We have terrorism against the Saudi government taking place in their country, against us as well. But nevertheless I always wondered why nobody was making the connection.
It turns out they did, and it was redacted in the official 9/11 committee report, the commission report, 28 pages had redacted data about the ties the hijackers had to actual members of the Saudi government. And it always struck me that this might be something a whole bunch of government officials would like to have nobody know because there's no way we're gonna sever our relationship with the Saudis, primarily because of oil. Even now because of fracking we're on the road to energy independence as it is, without all that solar and wind that isn't mattering, by the way, a Shinola.
It is irrelevant to our entire energy profile, the amount of energy we get, efficient or otherwise, from wind and solar and all this so-called clean stuff. It may someday amount to something, but it hasn't yet. It's still a world fueled by oil, fossil fuels, and it's gonna be that way for the foreseeable future. But nevertheless it just struck me that, look at what we have to hide, cover up, or what have you. And all these years later now, that happened in 2001, basically 15 years.
"This weekend CBS’s 60 Minutes ran a fascinating report on the now-famous 28 pages redacted from the joint congressional report on intelligence activities before and after the 9/11 attacks." And apparently a couple of the hijackers, "During their first days in LA, witnesses place the two future hijackers at the King Fahd mosque in the company of Fahad al-Thumairy, a diplomat at the Saudi consulate known to hold extremist views. Later, 9/11 investigators would find him deceptive and suspicious and in 2003, he would be denied reentry to the United States for having suspected ties to terrorist activity."
They quoted Tim Roemer, who's the Indiana Democrat who ended up being a celebrity of sorts on the commission. "This is a very interesting person in the whole 9/11 episode of who might’ve helped in Los Angeles and San Diego two terrorists who didn’t know their way around." So just an item that hasn't gotten a lot of it notice because so many other things in the news are taking precedence over it.
I remember, I was talking to Mr. Buckley shortly after 911, and I looked plaintively at him, and I said, "Bill, 17 of the 19, they're Saudis." He looked at me like I had said something greatly offensive. "So what?" And I said, "So what? How can that be ignored?" He said, "Well, you got individual criminals all over the world that may be American, do they have ties to the American government." I said, "No, but these guys happened to have the same point of view that the Saudi government does." I mean, how can we just immediately rule it out. And then I got the question of all questions, "Well, if you find a connection, you let me know and you tell me what anybody's gonna do about it."
And now it's interesting the way things have played out because we once again find ourselves allied with the Saudis against the Iranians. Ah, ah, ah, ah, sorry, that used to be. We're not against, right, I forgot, we're not against the Iranians. Damn it. Time went by. We're not against the Iranians, we're helping them nuke up, and that's why the Saudis are a little concerned.
WHO ELSE IS GOING TO BE BLAMED FOR 9/11 TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE ACTUAL PERPETRATORS