On the night of September 11, 2021, following the release of the 2016 FBI report, 9/11 Families United, which serves thousands of families and survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, said that the released report “puts to bed any doubts about Saudi complicity in the attacks.” They add that this is only the first step “towards declassifying and releasing government documents related to the attacks that have been kept secret for years by the U.S. government.”
The response of the highly informed 9/11 families to the declassification puts to rest the British- and Saudi-led lie that, in BBC’s words, “the document provides no evidence that the Saudi government was linked to the 9/11 plot.”
“Twenty years ago today they murdered our loved ones and inflicted immeasurable pain and suffering on our lives,” said Terry Strada, of 9/11 Families United, whose husband, Tom, was killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11. “Now the Saudis’ secrets are exposed and it is well past time for the Kingdom to own up to its officials’ roles in murdering thousands on American soil.”
“Even with the unfortunate number of redactions,” the press release continues, “the report contains a host of bombshell new revelations, implicating numerous Saudi government officials, in a coordinated effort to mobilize an essential support network for the first arriving 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar. The range of contacts at critical moments among these Saudi government officials, al-Qaeda and the hijackers is stunning.
