The 9/11 Congressional Report and the Saudis

questionsquestions.net, 28 July 2003

[T]he alleged links of the Saudi financiers to Al Qaeda are likely to serve the Bush clique. They uphold the idea that there is an "outside enemy", supported by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. This in turn serves to obscure the fact that the financial aid (from their Saudi business associates) to the Islamic militant network was from the very outset in 1979, part and parcel of the CIA's covert operation.ÝIn other words, the fact that the Saudi financiers are now being targeted in the law suit serves to protect the foreign policy architects of the "war on terrorism".

—Michel Chossudovsky [1]

Mass media coverage of the newly released 9/11 Congressional report: protection of the 9/11 coverup and US policy agendas in the guise of a scandal over Saudi terror ties. Where is this leading?

Classified Section of Sept. 11 Report Faults Saudi Rulers (NYT, 26 July)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/072703A.shtml

Senator Bob Graham defends the Bush administration and US intelligence agencies with assertions of "ineptitude and incompetence" while diverting blame to the Saudis: "High officials in this government, who I assume were not just rogue officials acting on their own, made substantial contributions to the support and well-being of two of these terrorists and facilitated their ability to plan, practice and then execute the tragedy of Sept. 11."
Lawmakers Accuse Administration of Protecting Saudi Sentiment with Secrecy (AP, 27 July)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/072803B.shtml

Senator Graham is not one to be pointing fingers of blame — he is in fact very highly suspect in the shady activities that went on around Sept. 11, as explained in the following article. So, even while he appears to be challenging the Bush administration, he has his own motivations to divert the public's attention:
Secret Hearings Conceal 9/11 Terrorist Links to Congress & White House (Tom Flocco, 11 Aug 02)
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FLO208A.html

White House Criticized for Censoring Sept. 11 Report (Reuters, 27 July)
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=3166224
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Newsweek, along with other mass media outlets, has promoted ex[?]-CIA agent Robert Baer's well-timed recent book, "Sleeping with The Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude"
Agent Turned Author Defies CIA (4 June)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/922184.asp

"[T]he report offers bits of new information about both presidents and the Saudis, and lays out a possible road map for the independent commission charged by Congress to pick up the investigation of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks."
i.e., the manufactured furor over the Saudi links is creating a rationale for diverting the efforts of the Independent Commission away from other matters which point to prior knowledge / complicity in Washington.
White House, CIA Kept Key Portions of Report Classified (Washington Post, 25 July)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/072603A.shtml

The secret, closed-door 9/11 hearings of the Select Intelligence Committee were an even more blatant coverup and whitewash operation than the current Independent Commission, itself riddled with absurd conflicts of interest and backroom connections to every government agency under question. Is Bush actually gaining more than he is losing by being seen as stonewalling on the censored portions of the report? Is this trumped up controversy actually protecting the Bush administration by tricking the public into believing that the report really contains the dangerous dirt on Bush, or at least is a genuine and sincere effort at an investigation?

Another question: are the Saudis being deliberately pressured by this framed-up "scandal" in order to further the next stage of US plans in the Mideast? Consider this description of a July, 2002 address given by Newt Gingrich at the Hoover Institution:

"Pulling his words out carefully, Gingrich revealed a stunning use of psychological intimidation and warfare. He elevated coercive verbal bullying to weaponry status. He said, You cannot change Saudi Arabia as much as we need to change Saudi Arabia until you have an Iraq which is an American ally. And you need an Iraq thats an American ally [because] it has a larger oil reserve than Saudi Arabia does.
 
"Gingrich unveiled how coercive a threat an American-Iraqi friendship would have over the Saudis: the bi-national friendship would destroy the Saudis sense of their reality that they alone are the one single source for the worlds reserve supply of oil. The morning they see that we are that serious and we are that determined, they will negotiate with us in a very different way.In other words, once there are two sources of cheap oil, it isnt likely the Saudis will thumb their noses at a U.S. presidents offer to buy reserve oil at two dollars a barrel. Its either two dollars a barrel or its nothing. (Since this speech, Gingrich has become an adviser to Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense.)"

source: CA Energy Scam Fraud Traced To White House (Katherine Yurica, Jul 03)
http://www.yuricareport.com/PoliticalAnalysis/FraudinWhiteHouse.htm

[1] Michel Chossudovsky, "Who's Who on the 9/11 'Independent' Commission", http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307B.html. See also, "911 Commission - Forgedda Boudit" by Jim Rarey, http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/rarey_911comm.html