People walk amongst US national flags in Malibu, California,
hoisted by students and staff from Pepperdine University to honor victims of
the 9/11 attacks, September 11, 2013
By: Gordon Duff
Source: Press TVhttp://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/18/340605/congress-cites-911-bush-coverup/
Two members of
Congress, specially authorized to view documents on 9/11 censored under the
personal authority of President Bush (43), have come away “absolutely shocked,”
demanding immediate action.
However, the full story, told for the first time below, explains “why now” and
who is really being targeted by revelations of cover-up and conspiracy.
In accusations published yesterday by the leading Tea Party
publication, Family Security Matters, Saudi Defense Minister and Intelligence
chief Prince Bandar referred to as “Bandar Bush” in his Wikipedia biography for
his close relationship with that family, was said to be the planner of 9/11.
In an article by Paul Sperry of the Hoover Institute, Bandar
was cited with fleeing the US to avoid prosecution. Here, Sperry quotes a
government source: “Our investigations contributed to the ambassador’s
departure,” an investigator who worked with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in
Washington told me, though Bandar says he left for “personal reasons.”
Despite these pronouncements, these accusations may well be
unfounded speculation. What we have to ask is why are they being made now and
why by political groups long close to the Saudi government. Why has Saudi
Arabia failed to respond to these very public accusations coming from some of
the highest authorities in Washington? “Why are the rats turning on each
other?”
Startling disclosures?
This week, Congressional representatives Stephen Lynch
(D-MA) and Walter Jones (R-NC) have officially requested a congressional
resolution demanding President Obama declassify the heavily redacted
Congressional Investigative Report on 9/11.
The two representatives had just been given authority under
penalty of “national security secrecy” to read the censored 28 pages of the
800-page report that had not been seen.
For nearly a decade, the US has maintained security
policies, both domestic and international, based on threats now known to have
been totally fabricated. The cost, trillions of dollars, thousands of Americans
dead in wars against “enemies” long known to have never been involved in terror
attacks on America, the phony “hunt for bin Laden,” all of it, nothing but
utter hogwash.
Bush cited as conspirator
What has been made clear is that President Bush was fully
aware that neither Afghanistan nor Iraq were involved in 9/11 and that military
action against those two nations was done to cover involvement of his
administration in 9/11, involvement that included support from foreign
intelligence agencies.
The representatives, while reviewing the report, came to the
portion titled “Specific Sources of Foreign Support.” A 28-page section here
had been “butchered” by the White House on the personal orders of President
Bush. On the original report given to Congress, an estimated 5-10,000 words
were omitted from this section with page after page of dotted lines replacing
text.
The full report carries a tale of not only broad complicity
of foreign intelligence agencies but, in the use of the term “complicity,”
indications of full knowledge of the funding and planning of 9/11 by the Bush
administration.
However, the lawmakers, without the support of a resolution,
are under a “gag order” and unable to name the nation or nations that supplied.
Israel, Saudi Arabia or both
Recent revelations tied to events in Syria and Egypt have
exposed an unimagined level of cooperation between the intelligence services of
Israel and Saudi Arabia. For years, Israel has cited Saudi Arabia as the
greatest threat to their security, much greater than Iraq under Saddam or their
claims of a “nuclear Iran.” This and much else of what Israel has publicly
claimed as part of their “mythology of victimization” is now recognized as
falsehood. Though both Israel and Saudi Arabia are known as allies of the US,
their partnerships with America have been with specific groups, extremists
within government and the military willing to back the plots now plainly
evident even when US interests are sacrificed or even American lives are lost.
Telling, today, is the relationship between Al-Nusra and
other al-Qaeda “franchises” and the Israeli/Saudi alliance, a relationship that
has provided both financial support and weapons, used against Syria, Lebanon
and Iraq.
The sections of the 9/11 report that were censored by
President Bush may well include reference to that al-Qaeda/Israel/Saudi nexus.
What is clear is that not only did the Bush administration wrongly blame bin
Laden or “al-Qaeda,” a spurious and illusory group at best, but that those
cited, Israel, Saudi Arabia or both, though named for funding and supporting
the 9/11 attack, were always under the full control of the Bush administration.
What does exist is proof that the war on terror was, in
reality as confirmed by General Wesley Clark, a plan to invade and occupy 7
oil- and gas-rich nations.
Israel put the blame on Saudi Arabia
In an article released yesterday on www.familysecuritymatters.org ,
Paul Sperry of the Hoover Institute cited, not just the Saudi government as
having been behind 9/11 but set the relationship between George W. Bush and
Prince Bandar at the crux of the conspiracy.
After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al-Qaeda acted
alone, with no state sponsors. “But the White House never let it see an entire
section of Congress’ investigative report on 9/11 dealing with “specific
sources of foreign support” for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi
nationals.
It was kept secret and remains so today. President Bush
inexplicably censored 28 full pages of the 800-page report.”
Sperry goes on: “Saudi consulate official Fahad al-Thumairy
allegedly arranged for an advance team to receive two of the Saudi hijackers -
Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi - as they arrived at LAX in 2000.”
Sperry goes on citing instance after instance where Saudi
intelligence directly aided al-Qaeda every step of the way.
What is important is that we understand who Sperry
represents. Family Security Matters isn’t a simple blog. It is the voice of not
just the extreme right but AIPAC as well. Their editors include Senator Ted
Cruz, top GOP domestic policy maker and former UN Ambassador John Bolton,
Islamophobe extremist, “Israel Firster” and a man who never saw a war he didn’t
love.
“Family Matters” is the power center for everything
pro-money, pro-hate and pro-Israel. Self-proclaimed “investigative journalist
Paul Sperry serves with the Hoover Institute, along with former Secretary of
State Condi Rice. The critical aspect of yesterday’s article is that it
represents the first time the Israel lobby has been willing to throw former
President Bush “under a bus” in order to distance themselves from accusations
of complicity in 9/11.
Prior to the exposure of Israel’s role as “mentor” for
al-Qaeda in Syria, America’s media was able to suppress not just “conspiracy
theories” but accusations backed by evidence and testimony that placed Israel
at the center of the 9/11 attacks.
Prince Bandar accused of planning 9/11
Though there is no reason to assume Saudi Arabia is
mentioned whatsoever in the redacted Congressional report, Sperry cites
payments by Bandar to the alleged 9/11 hijackers and other funding to al-Qaeda.
“Other al Qaeda funding was traced back to Bandar and his
embassy - so much so that by 2004 Riggs Bank of Washington had dropped the
Saudis as a client. The next year, as a number of embassy employees popped up
in terror probes, Riyadh recalled Bandar.”
Real from conjecture
Members of Congress have openly admitted that they have seen
documentation that would support an immediate criminal investigation against
President Bush (43) and his closest advisors. Further, those agencies involved
in compiling this report, key portions of which have remained secret, were also
responsible for lying to the 9/11 Commission, not just through omission. All
the intelligence that sent America into two wars is now not just suspect, it is
proven false.
Recognizing that the nations responsible have not yet been
named, though attempts by Family Security Matters to subvert this process are
underway, what does stand is evidence of the same conspiracy.
From a CIA transcript dated September 24, 2001, Osama bin
Laden is quoted: “The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of
these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the US system, but
are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system;
persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between
Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or
ideology could survive.”
Family Security Matters celebrates the death of Osama bin
Laden as a terrorist fanatic. They also celebrate the death of Nelson Mandela
as a terrorist fanatic. Mandela was right, as history has shown.
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Gordon Duff is a Marine
Vietnam veteran, a combat infantryman, and Senior Editor at Veterans Today. His
career has included extensive experience in international banking along with such
diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, defense technologies or
acting as diplomatic representative for UN humanitarian and economic
development efforts. Gordon Duff has traveled to over 80 nations. His articles
are published around the world and translated into a number of languages. He is
regularly on TV and radio, a popular and sometimes controversial guest
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