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2021-09-10T21:04:24.870Z


Since the 9/11 attacks, Washington has been searching for clues to Saudi Arabia's aid to terrorists, but diplomatic relations with Riyadh have narrowed investigations. Danny Gonzalez, a detective intelligence official: "The evidence is there, I saw it. I'm not allowed to go into details, but I can no longer sit on the fence without doing anything. "



A political storm has recently united left and right in criticism of the US administration, and the focus is on one of the most stable US allies in the world - Saudi Arabia.


1,800 family members of the victims of the 9/11 attacks sent a letter to President Joe Biden demanding that he not attend the memorial events if he did not intend to publish to the public a series of documents dealing with one of the most controversial and politically explosive allegations in the investigation of terrorist attacks. The same documents detail Riyadh's alleged involvement in aiding the attack, and some of the letter senders are also behind a huge civil lawsuit against Saudi Arabia.


"We are frustrated, tired and hurt by the fact that the U.S. government, for two decades, kept information about the deaths of our loved ones in locked safes," Brett Eagleson, whose father was killed in the Twin Towers attack and joined the lawsuit against Riyadh, told the CBS network. Biden an administrative order to re-examine and downgrade the attack investigation documents, including a 2016 investigation whose findings apparently point to a connection between a Saudi intelligence agent and two of the attackers.


The link between Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 attacks is a huge elephant in the room when it comes to relations between the superpower and one of its most loyal allies in the Middle East.

Since the attacks, more cases have been added to tensions between Riyadh and Washington, such as the assassination of journalist Jamal Hashukaji and Saudi involvement in Yemen, and the two parties in the US have chosen very different directions in their relations with the monarchy.


Questions about Saudi Arabia's responsibility for the murderous terrorist attack take on a new dimension when examining the superficial details of the attack.

Fifteen of the 19 terrorists who carried it out were Saudi citizens.

The terrorist who sent them, Osama bin Laden, is also from a Saudi capital family that enjoyed Saudi intelligence in the 1980s when it fought in Afghanistan against the Soviets.


The U.S. Senate Special Investigation Commission, which examined the events of September 11 and submitted its findings in 2003, found no "Saudi establishment connection" or "specific Saudi personalities" to the attacks. But Chapter 28 pages omitted from the final report by the Bush administration, on the relationship of two Saudi intelligence al Qaeda and the terrorists who carried out the attack.


According to various reports, the names of senior Saudi officials, including US Ambassador at the time, mentioned on pages Classified as top secret. The classification was removed in 2016 and they were presented to Congress and the public, but parts of the pages were still omitted, which caused frustration among the families of the victims.


In 2016, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, launched an operation called "Encore" in order to investigate whether the 9/11 terrorists had aides within the United States.

The operation targeted two of the terrorists, Nawaf al-Hamzi and Khalid al-Mahdar, who came in contact with a Saudi citizen, Omar al-Bayumi, who allegedly worked for Saudi intelligence.

Al-Bayumi admitted that he came in contact with the kidnappers and even brought them to San Diego, where he lived.


The conclusions of the investigation showed that there is only "circumstantial evidence" of Saudi involvement but lacks significant evidence.

However, Danny Gonzalez, a detective with intelligence, told U.S. media last week that the information in the organization's possession indicates Saudi involvement. "The evidence is there, I saw it.

I am not allowed to go into details, but I can no longer sit on the fence without doing anything, "Gonzalez, who now works for the victims' families, told CBS News.


Not only former FBI agents and lawmakers are willing to guarantee that the attacks have received, at the very least, assistance from Riyadh.

The members of the terrorist organization, who were captured by the Americans and imprisoned in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also announced that they were ready to testify to such a connection.

The planner of the operation, Sheikh Khalid Muhammad, whose trial is currently underway, announced through his lawyer in 2019 that he would be willing to testify to prove Saudi intelligence's involvement in the operation's secret, if the death penalty against him is overturned.

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One of the things that stands out most about Saudi Arabia and its connection to Sunni terrorism around the world, is that very little of what is happening is done on the surface and visible to the public. Saudi Arabia was the largest sponsor of the Mujahideen war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and the ties formed between bin Laden's men who fought alongside Saudi intelligence remained strong.


Riyadh has invested hundreds of millions of dollars of its oil revenues in spreading the austere Islamic conception of Saudi Wahhabi currents around the world, and its centers of learning and justification ("Dawa"), have become centers of radicalization and meeting points for jihadists around the world. Funds controlled by the monarchy, alongside private citizens in Saudi Arabia, have together become the main source of funding for Sunni Islamic terrorism.


Dr. Dori Gould, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public and State Affairs, has devoted much of his career to researching Saudi Arabia and its institutions. Muslim Brotherhood members, to operate in their territory and spread out their ideology, "says Gold.


support, tacitly or openly, Riyadh radical groups, helped the victory of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and dissemination of current Wahhabi Islamic educational institutions in Pakistan. this process has helped to shape the Taliban on the one hand, And for Saudi citizens like Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 terrorists to train, arm themselves and wait for an opportunity to hit the West.


The 9/11 attacks caused an unprecedented shock in Saudi Arabia.

Riyadh's response was twofold - on the one hand, the rejection of any allegation of Saudi Arabia's involvement in the planning or execution of the attacks.

On the other hand, the launch of unprecedented reforms in the history of the kingdom, to ward off criticism and prevent further embarrassment on the part of Islamic terrorist elements.


For years, Washington has questioned the depth of Riyadh's reforms.

A message leaked by the US Secretary of State reveals that as early as 2007, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked diplomatic staff members to take action against the transfer of funds from Saudi Arabia to terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East.

"Donors in Saudi Arabia make up the bulk of Sunni terrorist financing," the broadcast said, "action must be taken because Saudi Arabia remains an important financial support center for al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Shakar al-Taibeh in Pakistan."

15 of the 19 perpetrators - Saudi citizens.

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But in 2015 there was a tectonic change in the leadership of the state. Muhammad bin Salman, a young and energetic heir with a cohesive vision for the future of Saudi Arabia, rose to prominence and embarked on a series of comprehensive reforms that touched almost every area of ​​life in the kingdom, with a vision in which there was no room for radical Islam. Ben Salman cut back on Saudi funds and even presented a list of pro-terrorist figures and organizations to which funds were banned. In addition, he began to cut back on the power of clergy.


"Saudi Arabia under Ben Salman has made a significant, if not absolute, change," explains Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of the Armed Forces Research Division and a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public and State Affairs. "In propaganda or in force. Saudi Arabia has also taken concrete steps, such as establishing a counter-terrorism and extremist authority, and arresting operatives of terrorist organizations such as Hamas in its territory."


"Since the 9/11 attacks, the Saudis have begun a process of reconsidering their approach to radical Islam," explains Dr. Gould, providing an instructive example of change. Learn about the Holocaust and get to know the disaster that befell the Jewish people. "


Those who best insist on Saudi Arabia's narrative of the fight against terrorism are, of course, the Saudis themselves. In recent weeks, ahead of the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, the Saudi media has launched a blitz of articles and news about Saudi Arabia's long war on terror. Muhammad al-Sulami, one of the country's most prominent journalists, published a column entitled "Saudi Arabia Rejects the Ideology of Extremism and Defeats Terrorism." He claims, with a fair amount of justice, that Saudi Arabia has suffered from al-Qaeda terrorist attacks itself and has learned firsthand that extremist ideology must be rejected.


It is unclear at this point how Ben Salman's recent steps, along with the ongoing change in Riyadh's rhetoric, will affect the Biden administration or members of the Democratic Party, many of whom abhor the alliance with the kingdom, arguing that its rule is light years away from the American vision.


"There is a camp within the American establishment that expresses tacit support for Iran, and clearly prefers a return to the nuclear agreement with it over strengthening the alliance with Saudi Arabia," Dr. Gould argues.

"I believe the Biden administration understands that it is not possible to 'divorce' Saudi Arabia because the alternative is to come to terms with a nuclear Iran."


Cooperwasser actually recognizes an opportunity here: "The Biden administration can leverage the affair and exposures to the demand for concrete actions on the part of Saudi Arabia in favor of regional stability."


With the rise of Sunni extremist forces in the Muslim world, it is difficult to predict how Ben Salman's reforms will be able to halt the growth of extremist Islam and terrorism in the religious and conservative state, and whether the change in Saudi Arabia and the regime that promotes it will survive 21st century upheavals. 

Source: israelhayom

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