Tag: Operation Encore
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Saudis fail in bid to dismiss 9/11 lawsuit; Broad hunt for new evidence in Florida, elsewhere to begin soon
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In an enormous win for the survivors and relatives of the nearly 3,000 killed during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, a New York federal judge Thursday denied Saudi Arabia’s motion to dismiss their multi-billion-dollar civil lawsuit accusing the Kingdom of aiding and abetting al Qaeda. -
With clock running, Luna panel should stop chasing headlines, start chasing documents
By Robbyn Swan
FloridaBulldog.org
Nearly 62 years after the tragedy, Florida U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and her “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets” brought Hollywood to the Hill and made headlines about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. -
‘Co-opted’ by Saudi intelligence, FBI informant allegedly played vital role in 9/11 preparations
By Robbyn Swan
FloridaBulldog.org
Dr. Abdussattar Shaikh, the FBI informant who shared his home with Flight 77 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, had in fact been “co-opted” by a Saudi intelligence asset with whom he shared a close, years-long relationship. -
New evidence, compelling new narrative in 9/11 lawsuit toxic for Saudi Arabia, FBI
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
For the last month and a half, a torrent of unsettling, even maddening information about what led up to 9/11 has flowed out of a federal courthouse in New York City. It does not make Saudi Arabia look good. It does not make the FBI look good, either. -
Court fight over public access to FBI’s secret 9/11 records intensifies
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
As the monumental case titled In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 plods on toward a judge’s decisive ruling on whether Saudi Arabia should be dismissed as a defendant, lawyers on both sides are in a slugfest over what evidence the public should get to see. -
Saudi prince’s cell phone linked to 9/11 hijackers
By Robbyn Swan
FloridaBulldog.org
Fifteen months before 9/11, multiple phone calls were exchanged between a Saudi prince’s cell phone and the San Diego home of two al Qaeda operatives who helped hijack American Airlines Flight 77 and crash it into the Pentagon, declassified FBI documents say.
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