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via Ex-Senators Graham and Kerrey See Possible Saudi 9/11 Link – NYTimes.com.
WASHINGTON — For more than a decade,
questions have lingered about the possible role of the Saudi government
in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, even as the royal kingdom has made
itself a crucial counterterrorism partner in the eyes of American
diplomats.
Now, in sworn statements that seem likely
to reignite the debate, two former senators who were privy to top secret
information on the Saudis’ activities say they believe that the Saudi
government might have played a direct role in the terrorist attacks.
“I am convinced that there was a direct
line between at least some of the terrorists who carried out the
September 11th attacks and the government of Saudi Arabia,” former
Senator Bob Graham, Democrat of Florida, said in an affidavit filed as
part of a lawsuit brought against the Saudi government and dozens of
institutions in the country by families of Sept. 11 victims and others.
Mr. Graham led a joint 2002 Congressional inquiry into the attacks.
His former Senate colleague, Bob Kerrey of
Nebraska, a Democrat who served on the separate 9/11 Commission, said
in a sworn affidavit of his own in the case that “significant questions
remain unanswered” about the role of Saudi institutions. “Evidence
relating to the plausible involvement of possible Saudi government
agents in the September 11th attacks has never been fully pursued,” Mr.
Kerrey said. More
