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December 6, 2005
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June 20, 2004
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August 11, 2003
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August 16, 2002
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November 19, 2001
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October 29, 2001
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October 22, 2001
ref 68
September 20, 2001
ref 87
July 26, 2001
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| 1 | Running From the Truth: 9-11 Commission dealt with several issues by simply ignoring them | archived: ref 446 |
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| Village Voice December 6, 2005 |
On 9-11 the U.S. government faced a terrible decision: Should the military be ordered to shoot down other commercial airplanes full of civilian passengers, so that they, too, would not be used as missiles? Vice President Dick Cheney, although not part of the National Command Authority, gave the orders, although under the Constitution the vice president has no authority to command the military. The 9-11 Commission dealt with this fundamental issue by ignoring it. | |||||
| 2 | 2 Allies Aided Bin Laden, Say Panel Members | archived: ref 237 |
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| LA Times June 20, 2004 |
Washington - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia helped set the stage for the Sept. 11 attacks by cutting deals with the Taliban and Osama bin Laden that allowed his Al Qaeda terrorist network to flourish, according to several senior members of the Sept. 11 commission and U.S. counter-terrorism officials. | |||||
| 3 | Riyadh Paid Man Linked to Sept. 11 Hijackers | archived: ref 149 |
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| Wall Street Journal August 11, 2003 |
WASHINGTON -- Omar al-Bayoumi, the Saudi student who aided two of the Sept. 11 hijackers and was a focus of the recent congressional report on the attacks, was paid with Saudi government funds for several years while living in the U.S., newly reviewed documents show. | |||||
| 4 | 600 file Sept. 11 suit | archived: ref 245 |
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| Star Tribune (MN) August 16, 2002 |
More than 600 Sept. 11 survivors and victims' families filed a $100 trillion suit Thursday accusing the Saudi royal family, seven international banks, charities and others of financing Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. The 259-page complaint, modeled after a case against the Libyan government over the 1988 in-flight bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, seeks to freeze and recover assets of those who have bankrolled Bin Laden's Al-Qaida network. | |||||
| 5 | US Efforts To Make Peace Summed Up By 'Oil' | archived: ref 246 |
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| Irish Times November 19, 2001 |
Jean-Charles Brisard, who wrote a report on bin Laden's finances for the French intelligence agency DST and is co-author of Hidden Truth, met O'Neill several times last summer. He complained bitterly that the US State Department - and behind it the oil lobby who make up President Bush's entourage - blocked attempts to prove bin Laden's guilt. | |||||
| 6 | The reluctant Saudis: Royal family increasingly nervous about keeping grip on power at home | archived: ref 247 |
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| Seattle Times October 29, 2001 |
The United States and Saudi Arabia have sparred over how to respond to terrorism before. The royal family, sensitive to perceptions of Western domination, was irked when the FBI tried to ferry in teams of investigators after the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers, an American military complex in Saudi Arabia, that left 19 U.S. servicemen dead. | |||||
| 7 | King's Ransom: How Vulnerable are the Saudi Royals | ref 44 |
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| New Yorker October 22, 2001 |
The concerns, both in America and in Saudi Arabia, about the security of the fields have become more urgent than ever since September 11th. A former high-level intelligence official depicted the Saudi rulers as nervously "sitting on a keg of dynamite"€that is, the oil reserves. "They're petrified that somebody's going to light the fuse." | |||||
| 8 | Bin Laden Under Magnifying Glass | archived: ref 68 |
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| Intelligence Online September 20, 2001 |
For some days anti-terrorist experts in Washington and Paris have been talking about the existence of a report in French that details all of the financial organizations which back the operations of Osama Bin Laden. IntelligenceOnline has obtained a copy of the confidential, 71-page report drafted in December, 1999 and updated most recently in June of this year. (direct web access requires password) | |||||
| 9 | Blowback | archived: ref 87 |
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| Janes Intelligence Review July 26, 2001 |
Vertically, Al-Qaeda is organised with Bin Laden, the emir-general, at the top, followed by other Al-Qaeda leaders and leaders of the constituent groups. Horizontally, it is integrated with 24 constituent groups. The vertical integration is formal, the horizontal integration, informal. | |||||