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NATIONAL
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Sunday, February 8, 2015
Denton Record-Chronicle
New allegations renew old questions about 9-11
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
New York
Williams to take
‘several days’ off
By Ken Dilanian
AP Intelligence Writer
WASHINGTON
years, some current and former
American officials have been
urging President Barack Obama
to release secret files they say
document links between the
government of Saudi Arabia and
the Sept. U attacks.
Other officials, including the
executive director of the Sept. II
commission, have said the clas-
sified documents do not prove
that the Saudi government
knew about or financed the
2001 terrorist attacks, and that
making the material public
would serve no purpose.
Now, unsubstantiated court
testimony by Zacharias Mous-
saoui, a former al-Qaida mem-
ber serving life in federal prison,
has renewed the push by those
who want a closer look into
whether there was official Saudi
involvement with al-Qaida and
the Sept. 11 hijackers. They say it
should start with the release of
28 pages relating to Saudi Ara-
bia from a joint congressional
inquiry into the attacks.
“We owe the families a full
accounting,” said Rep. Stephen
Lynch of Massachusetts, a Dem-
ocrat who has read the classified
pages written in 2002. They
were left out of the public ver-
sion of the report on the orders
of President George W. Bush,
who said they could divulge in-
telligence sources and methods.
Officials on both sides of the de-
bate acknowledge that protect-
ing the delicate U.S.-Saudi rela-
tionship also played a role.
Lynch and Rep. Walter Jones,
R-N.C., have sponsored a resolu-
tion that calls for declassifying the
records. The White House has
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For
NBC Anchorman Brian Wil-
liams said he is temporarily
stepping away from the NBC
Nightly News amid questions
about his memories of war cov-
erage in Iraq, calling it “painfully
apparent” that he has become a
distracting news story.
The following statement
from Williams was posted on
the network’s website Saturday:
“In the midst of a career spent
covering and consuming news, it
has become painfully apparent to
me that I am presently too much a
part of the news, due to my ac-
tions. ... Ihave decided to take my-
self off of my daily broadcast for
the next several days, and Lester
Holt has kindly agreed to sit in for
me to allow us to adequately deal
with this issue. Upon my return, I
will continue my career-long ef-
fort to be worthy of the trust of
those who place their trust in us.”
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In this Sept. 13,
2001 file photo, an
American flag flies
over the rubble of
the collapsed
World Trade Cen-
ter buildings in
New York.
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fund al-Qaida in the late 1990s,
even after the organization had
declared war on the House of
Saud.
“If you think it’s thin, well then,
why not release it?” Lynch said.
Rep. Adam Schiff of Califor-
nia, the top Democrat on the
House Intelligence Committee,
said he supports the release be-
cause he believes the pages
would “demystify” the notion of
a Saudi conspiracy.
“The issues raised in those
pages were investigated by the
9/11 commission and found to be
unsubstantiated,” he said.
That commission, which
built on the work of the joint
congressional inquiry with ac-
cess to FBI files and secret intel-
ligence, did not exonerate Saudi
Arabia. But it did conclude in its
2004 report that there was no
evidence that the Saudi govern-
ment funded al-Qaida during
the planning of the attacks.
Two ardent dissenters from
that conclusion have been former
Democratic Sen. Bob Graham of
Florida, a leader of the congres-
sional inquiry and longtime
chairman of the Senate Intelli-
gence Committee, and John Leh-
man, a Sept. 11 commission mem-
ber and former Navy secretary
under President Ronald Reagan.
Graham has said he sees “a
direct line between some of the
terrorists who carried out the
Sept. 11 attacks and the govern-
ment of Saudi Arabia.”
The New York lawsuit argues
that Saudi rulers were playing a
double game in the years before
the attacks, expelling Osama bin
Laden and declaring opposition
to al-Qaida, while secretly fund-
ing it to assuage the kingdom’s
religious conservatives.
Moussaoui, in testimony from
a supermax prison in Florence,
Colorado, told plaintiff lawyers it
was “an absolute lie” that Saudi
Arabia severed its ties with bin
Laden and al-Qaida in 1994.
asked intelligence agencies to re-
view the pages with an eye toward
potential declassification, spokes-
man Ned Price said, but there is
no timetable.
The controversy comes at a
consequential moment in the
relationship between the U.S.
and the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia has a new king
— pro-American like the late
monarch — and the two wary al-
lies are working closely to con-
front the Islamic State, the tur-
moil in Yemen and Iran’s nucle-
ar aspirations. At the same time,
U.S. officials say they continue to
privately admonish Saudi Ara-
bia over human rights abuses in
the kingdom, such as the recent
flogging of ablogger, and its sup-
port of the spread of religious ex-
tremism abroad.
Moussaoui testified at his
trial that key members of the
Saudi royal family continued to
Lynch said the classified 28
pages, which are drawn from in-
telligence collection and FBI in-
vestigations, “are consistent”
with Moussaoui’s testimony.
“There are specifics, there are
transactions, there are names,”
Lynch said Others who have read
the document say it’s far from de-
finitive. Two senior congressional
aides described the case as weak.
One noted that just because Saudi
citizens helped the mostly Saudi
hijackers in the U.S. does not
mean they knew about the opera-
tion. Another said that the pages
contain inaccuracies that could
compromise an important diplo-
matic relationship.
The aides spoke on condition
of anonymity to describe materi-
al that remains classified.
Boston
State wrongly takes
mom’s child after birth
She was 19, a brand-new
mother with a developmental
disability. Two days after giving
birth to her daughter, the state
took the infant away and placed
her in foster care.
Massachusetts child welfare
officials contend the young wom-
an couldn’t properly care for a
newborn and insist they acted in
the child’s best interests. But the
federal government disagrees: It
says the state violated her civil
rights by discriminating against
her because of her disability.
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