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| Saudi Arabia denies claims its agents helped in 9/11 attacks |
| 2015-04-13 |
| [IsraelTimes] Families of victims say new evidence shows Riyadh 'directly and knowingly' helped hijackers Attorneys for Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... say a judge should reject claims by families of victims of the September 11 attacks that new evidence -- including an interview with the man who became known as the "20th hijacker" -- shows agents of the kingdom "directly and knowingly" helped the hijackers. In papers filed in Manhattan federal court late Friday, the lawyers said there is no evidence Saudi Arabia supported or caused the attacks. They urged a judge to dismiss the claims against Saudi Arabia, saying the lawyers "have had enough chances to make their case." Saudi Arabia was among the countries, companies and organizations sued in 2002 and afterward by families who claimed they aided al-Qaeda, the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... and other terrorist groups. The lawsuits sought billions of dollars in damages. Lawyers for Saudi Arabia also urged the judge considering the merits of the civil litigation to disregard claims by al-Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui, who is serving a life prison sentence after pleading guilty in April 2005 to conspiring with the hijackers to kill Americans. They called his comments to plaintiffs' lawyers last year "colorful but immaterial hearsay statements" from a convicted, mentally ill terrorist. Before jurors spared Moussaoui's life, a psychologist testified for the defense at death penalty proceedings that he had paranoid schizophrenia. Moussaoui says it was a lie that Saudi Arabia cut ties with al-Qaeda and bin Laden in 1994. Lawyers for 9/11 families cited Moussaoui's claims in saying they've unearthed "compelling" evidence that the Saudi government assisted the hijackers. In papers filed Friday, the plaintiffs' lawyers said the efforts by Saudi Arabia to be dismissed from the litigation "rest on grave distortions of the record, implausible interpretations of the allegations, facts and evidence, and a refusal to afford plaintiffs the obvious inferences to which they are entitled." Saudi Arabia was dismissed as a defendant in the case once before by a judge who said it was protected by sovereign immunity, but a federal appeals court in December 2013 reinstated it, saying a legal exception existed and the circumstances were extraordinary. Lawyers for the plaintiffs say they have developed substantial new evidence against Saudi Arabia since the Sept. 11 Commission said in a report a decade ago that it found no evidence that the Saudi government or senior Saudi officials individually funded al-Qaeda. Lawyers for Saudi Arabia say the families are relying on the submission of "thousands of pages of inadmissible and irrelevant materials." They wrote: "If they had a single piece of evidence that would stand up in court, they would highlight it in their papers. Instead, they focus heavily on witnesses manifestly lacking personal knowledge, and on newspaper articles, blog posts, and similar multiple hearsay. They thus reveal that they have nothing better." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 One of the alq top boys was tricked into believing he was in Saudi custody.he gave them numbers of certain princes who would help him.they all died in the following next month by accidents.look it up on the internet. |
| Posted by: paul 2015-04-13 08:13 |
| #4 A captured al Qaeda leader was fooled into thinking he was in Saudi custody and gave a cell number of a Saudi princess to help him out. The very top may not of been involved but there were leaders in Saudi Arabia that were involved. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2015-04-13 06:46 |
| #3 Bandar is attempting to re-brand the KSA image. Their terrorist chickens have come home to roost. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-13 02:29 |
| #2 the attacks happened: 2002. was it 17 of the 19 hijackers that were saudi? or 15? I can't remember now. Overwhelming majority. It was clear to everyone immediately that the soddis were involved. The slow wheels of the law have ground round for a decade and we are still arguing about whether they should actually hear the case or not well it's going to be hard now after a decade they'll drag it on until witnesses die of old age |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-04-13 00:57 |
| #1 It was great George Bush went after Osama in Afghanistan. That was good. But it was bad that he called it a "war on terror" instead of its true name "war on fascist Islamism" And it was terrible - terrible - that the Saudis were not called to account. We should have invaded them. We should have removed their corrupt little royal family and occupied the country We should have eradicated Islamism, torn it up by the root. Re-educated a generation to hold their faith as a faith only and not as a political and economic and legal system. It would have needed a soldier on every corner with a machine gun. It would have needed the instant equal rights for women, and the immediate installing of girls and women in un-segregated universities, the removal of burqas, the westernisation and right to walk the streets. It would have meant the instant granting of freedom of and from religion in the Kingdom under occupation - the kind of occupation seen in World War II. Instead we fought by proxy... afghanistan, iraq everywhere the running battle on the fringes but that is the root of the problem: saudi arabia. |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-04-13 00:53 |