By Ryan Mauro
Families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks are trying to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, the country from which 15 of the 19 hijackers came from. The legal team has new documents outlining the Saudis’ history of bankrolling terrorism and extremism, helping to expose the pattern of deception used by the Saudis to portray themselves as a staunch ally of the United States.
The legal team, for example, has a sworn statement from someone in Afghanistan who says he personally saw a representative of Turki al-Faisal, the former head of Saudi intelligence, give a check for $267 million to a top Taliban official in 1998. Treasury Department documents were obtained that showed that the International Islamic Relief Organization, a charity described by The New York Times as “heavily supported by members of the Saudi royal family” was being used to support terrorists at least into 2006. Read more ...
Families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks are trying to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, the country from which 15 of the 19 hijackers came from. The legal team has new documents outlining the Saudis’ history of bankrolling terrorism and extremism, helping to expose the pattern of deception used by the Saudis to portray themselves as a staunch ally of the United States.
The legal team, for example, has a sworn statement from someone in Afghanistan who says he personally saw a representative of Turki al-Faisal, the former head of Saudi intelligence, give a check for $267 million to a top Taliban official in 1998. Treasury Department documents were obtained that showed that the International Islamic Relief Organization, a charity described by The New York Times as “heavily supported by members of the Saudi royal family” was being used to support terrorists at least into 2006. Read more ...
Source: FPM
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