Survivors of September 11 seek to prove the role of Saudi Arabia in the incident 23 years ago

According to RCO News Agency, on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist incident, an American media reported in a report that thousands of survivors of this incident and the families of its victims, who believe that the main dimensions of this incident were hidden, are waiting for the decisive decision of a federal court judge in legal battles of several years. They are at loggerheads with Saudi Arabia over what they claim is Riyadh’s role in supporting extremist groups that helped the hijackers in the US attack the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

CNN reported about this: Terry Estrada, head of the United Families coalition, which consists of survivors and families of victims of the 9/11 incident, said, “It’s not just a date of the year to remember those we lost that day. or have been killed It is a commitment to ensure that the truth is told. It’s more than just never forgetting them. We will never forget what happened to prevent it from happening again.”

Estrada refers to the “never forget” slogan among the survivors who seek justice.

At a hearing in July to examine Saudi Arabia’s denials of involvement in the incident, lawyers for the families presented evidence they said revealed how the network supported several Saudi officials who worked in the U.S. Some of them were in the embassy of this country in Washington, participated in this plan and facilitated the actions of hijackers throughout the country.

The presence of US President Donald Trump and Joe Biden at the site of the September 11 incident

Saudi reaction

Gavin Simpson, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, said at the July hearing that this secret militant network was created, financed, directed and supported with an “anti-American mission by Saudi Arabia and its affiliated organizations and diplomats in the United States.”

While 15 of the 19 hijackers in this terrorist incident were citizens of Saudi Arabia, this country has denied any government intervention in this attack.

The United States has been saying for a long time that Saudi Arabia, its strategic partner in the region, had no role and that the Al-Qaeda terrorist group, which was responsible for this terrorist operation, independently hijacked four commercial planes, flew them and crashed them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon building in New York. have acted A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania.

The story is not over

CNN further wrote: But the accusations against Saudi Arabia in this regard are still pending. The lawsuit against Saudi Arabia has been more complete since 2002. In 2016, Congress overrode President Barack Obama’s veto of legislation that would have allowed individuals to personally sue foreign governments for terrorist attacks.

This action paved the way for the families of the 9/11 survivors to pursue their complaint against Saudi Arabia.

Dealing with thousands of lawsuits from different parts of the United States, where demands, including the payment of compensation from Saudi Arabia for providing material and financial aid to al-Qaeda, have been consolidated and handed over to a federal court judge in Manhattan.

Controversial affidavit

“George Daniels”, the judge of this federal court, gave the lawyers of the victims’ families an opportunity to investigate and collect evidence about a terrorist cell that was led by two of the main agents of this operation around Los Angeles and San Diego. The plaintiff’s lawyers must prove that these two citizens of Saudi Arabia supported the hijackers as agents of Saudi Arabia and on the orders of senior Saudi officials.

If Daniels rules, the case will continue and may lead to the release of unprecedented evidence.

In another part of this report, it is stated: Almost simultaneously with the completion of the court hearing in New York, the US Department of Defense, unexpectedly, published a “confession letter” from “Khalid Sheikh Mohammad”, the main designer of this operation, and 2 other accomplices. which allowed them to escape the death penalty.

This declaration was met with a strong reaction from politicians and groups representing the victims of September 11, who sought the execution of the Guantanamo prison inmates who planned this terrorist operation.

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