Tag: al-Qaeda
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Saudi Arabia’s king ran state charity that 9/11 victims say funded and armed al Qaeda
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Editor’s Note: This story was first published Feb. 6, 2015. Saudi Arabia’s king, Salman, “actively directed” a Saudi charity whose funding was “especially important to al Qaeda acquiring the strike capabilities used to launch attacks in the U.S.,” say court papers filed this week by lawyers representing 9/11 victims and their families. -
A stonewall of secrecy hides many 9-11 records on 14th anniversary of terrorist attacks
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Seven weeks after the end of the massive cleanup at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan in 2002, a legal investigator for the families of 9/11 victims requested a copy of an arrest warrant issued by Interpol for fugitive al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The Justice Department replied that she’d first need bin Laden to sign a privacy waiver. -
9/11 victims: Saudi Arabia’s ‘lavish sponsorship’ of al Qaeda made attacks possible
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
As defense attorneys tried again last week to get Saudi Arabia dropped from a massive federal lawsuit accusing it of complicity in the 9/11 attacks, lawyers for those who survived, and relatives of the dead, filed a sweeping new statement of the evidence they are marshaling for trial. -
9/11, Saudi Arabia and the search for answers amid government secrecy
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
t’s been 13 years since al Qaeda hijackers commandeered four U.S. passenger jets and slammed them into America’s heart, yet a basic question persists: Did they act alone or with the help of a support network? -
U.S. Supreme Court green lights 9/11 victims lawsuit against Saudi Arabia
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
In a decision largely unreported by the national media, the U.S. Supreme Court last week denied Saudi Arabia’s appeal that it be dropped as a defendant in a civil lawsuit alleging it bankrolled al Qaeda in the years before 9/11. -
Skeptical U.S. judge gives FBI two weeks to conduct better search of 9/11 records
By Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers
BrowardBulldog.org
UPDATE 4/4/14 — Troubled by “inconsistencies” and the government’s sometimes “nonsensical” legal arguments, a federal judge on Friday ordered the FBI to conduct a detailed search of its records for information about apparent terrorist activity in Sarasota prior to 9/11.
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