Why won't US declassify Saudi 9/11 report?

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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush has refused to declassify a 28-page chapter of a congressional report on the Sept. 11 attacks. He said that disclosure of the deleted section, which centers on allegations of Saudi Arabia’s role in financing the hijackings, “would help the enemy” and compromise the administration’s global war against terror. :confused:

The report was denounced by Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, as an “outrage” that “wrongly and morbidly” accused Saudi Arabia of complicity in the attacks.

White House won’t declassify Saudi 9/11 report?

Some people have said one reason is Bush wanted to protect the Saudi royal family. This explanation is flawed because of the following reasons. Firstly the American media has already alluded to the contents of the report and has named Omar al-Bayoumi and members of the royal family providing support and money to finance the high jacking operations. Secondly, by not declassifying the report the Saudis strongly feel that White House is doing little to protect them.

Another reason cited by political analysts is that the Bush administration wants to use the report to make the Saudis more compliant to US demands against the war on terror.
However, on close examination this explanation is too weak to be true. Since September 11, the role played by the Saudi high jackers has been under intense media scrutiny. The US administration has successfully manipulated this to pressurise the Saudis to comply with US demands. Furthermore, the May 12 bombings of the housing complex in Riyadh have paved the way for American intelligence officials to be granted full access to intelligence information and total co-operation of the Saudi officials.

**Perhaps the reason that is closer to the truth is that the Bush administration fears that some aspects of the classified report, if declassified would point towards US involvement in the events of September 11. On the 28th of July, Bush alluded to this point when he said, “It makes no sense to declassify when we’ve got an ongoing investigation. That could jeopardise that investigation. And it made no sense to declassify … during the war on terror, because it would help the enemy if they knew our sources and methods.”

It is known fact the US companies such as Vinnell, owned by the Carlyle Group (which has long-time ties to the Bush Family), BDM, Booz-Allen Hamilton, Shea and Gardne, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld,Kroll O’Gara Hess and Eisenhardt etc have been extensively involved with Saudi nationals in military training, construction, intelligence gathering etc and other services which if brought to the public eye may be very damaging to the Bush administration.**

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How about Chapter 29 where it was detailed how the pixies dun it?

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:topic: how about sticking to the topic for a change

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Does the report explicitly mention only Saudi Arabia or other 'foreign nations'?? maybe that is the reason for it's classification.

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We will only find out if its out in the open. Hiding it behind mystery blank pages just casts doubt and suspicion on the culprits involved.

They don’t have no problem claiming WMD’s when they don’t even exist and al qaida this and al qaida that, yet they use excuse of our methods will help others its not methods people want but names and proof :konfused:

If Saudi is guilty fine lets have it out in the open, If American Government and corporations are involved then Watergate will be a drop in the ocean compared to this potential scandal!

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The report does mention Saudi Arabia in particular, if i am not mistaken?

Interesting topic, Ak47.

Once again, the Amnesty-hating, dictatorial House of Saud gets off lightly with nary a slap on the wrist - even though the Saudi govt. has been accused of “providing assistance to the hijackers” of 11th September. The critical message for any wannabe tyrants: if you suck up to the US and are a compliant dictator, you can literally get away with murder…even murder of American citizens.

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Strange I heard on the radio the other day...

A P.R. message from the Saudi government detailing how they are working against terrorism, etc. How they have impleted the most stringent international money laundering safeguards..or some such.

And how they are friends of the U.S.

AvgAmericanGirl says:
Wag The Dog

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Interesting topic, Ak47.

Once again, the Amnesty-hating, dictatorial House of Saud gets off lightly with nary a slap on the wrist - even though the Saudi govt. has been accused of "providing assistance to the hijackers" of 11th September. The critical message for any wannabe tyrants: if you suck up to the US and are a compliant dictator, you can literally get away with murder...even murder of American citizens.
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The point of this analysis is that the blanked out pages does'nt reveal i.e the American involvement and links in the Sept 11 bombings.

It is known fact the US companies such as Vinnell, owned by the Carlyle Group (which has long-time ties to the Bush Family), BDM, Booz-Allen Hamilton, Shea and Gardne, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld,Kroll O’Gara Hess and Eisenhardt etc have been extensively involved with Saudi nationals in military training, construction, intelligence gathering etc and other services which if brought to the public eye may be very damaging to the Bush administration.