More than 13 years after 9/11, a controversy still rages over what role Saudi Arabia may have had in supporting the attack. Now it has come to light that Zacarias Moussaoui, a former al-Qaeda operative held in federal prison in Florence, Colo., provided testimony for a trial in which he said Saudi officials poured money into the terror network in the 1990s.
The 9/11 Commission did look into this issue and found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization,” although charities associated with the government may have. But another relevant document has never been released: a section of a report from a congressional investigation into 9/11.
And at least one former senator, Bob Graham of Florida, insists the report points to Saudi Arabia as 9/11’s “principal financier.”
A growing number of members of Congress are calling on the White House to declassify the report. We, too, believe it’s time.
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