Thread: 9/11's secret 28-page history

Families demand release of classified 2002 report detailing foreign-government support for September 11 hijackers.



A secret 9/11 history exists - one that the few who know it say names at least one foreign country that provided support to some of the 19 hijackers on their murderous mission 13-years ago [today].

Twenty-eight pages from an official 2002 report detailing foreign-government assistance to the September 11 attackers remain classified. Determined 9/11 family members and sympathetic congressmen are pushing hard, however, for the long-awaited release of the missing history of one of the United States' greatest tragedies.

The controversial information is contained in the House-Senate Intelligence Committees' Joint Inquiry. The section on "specific sources of foreign support" was classified by former president George W Bush for national security reasons.

Bush received his share of flak for the move, but critics have also denounced President Barack Obama, who reportedly told several 9/11 family members he would declassify the 28 pages - but years later has still failed to do so.

Observers say the American public - and 9/11 family members in particular - deserve to know what the missing chapter reveals.

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The 28 pages can be read by members of Congress who ask permission from leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Once authorised, the politicians are led by intelligence officers to a special sound-proof room to read the redacted chapter. An officer remains present the entire time, ensuring that no notes are taken. No specific details from the 28 pages can be divulged to the public.

Congressman Massie has described the classified chapter as "shocking".
"I had to stop every couple pages and just sort of absorb, and try to rearrange my understanding of history for the past 13 years, and years leading up to that," he told a earlier this year. "It challenges you to rethink everything."

Steven Aftergood monitors government secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists. He told Al Jazeera while the information might negatively affect US foreign relations, the importance of shedding light on the September 11 attacks takes precedence.

"In other cases, that might be enough to warrant classification. But in this case, the need to clarify the background of the 9/11 attacks is an overriding factor and it should compel disclosure, in my opinion. Sooner or later, that will happen. Sooner would be better," said Aftergood.

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Prince Bandar bin Sultan was the Saudi ambassador to the United States on September 11, 2001. He denied any Saudi role in 9/11 in a 2003 statement.

"The idea that the Saudi government funded, organised or even knew about September 11 is malicious and blatantly false," said Bandar.

Saudi Arabia, interestingly, has also called for the declassification of the secret 28 pages on foreign support.

"In a 900-page report, 28 blanked-out pages are being used by some to malign our country and our people," Bandar said in 2003.

"Saudi Arabia has nothing to hide. We can deal with questions in public, but we cannot respond to blank pages."

9/11's secret 28-page history - Features - Al Jazeera English

Originally Posted by Neo

Families demand release of classified 2002 report detailing foreign-government support for September 11 hijackers.

What will they do with this revelation? At least one country dislikes the US sufficiently to support a terrorist attack. How can that be classified as anything other than common knowledge?

The fact that so many Amercans were surprised by the attack when it happened simply marks then down as insular and parochial.
If your nations government is based on a religious myth, you really have no complaint when it bites you in the ass.

This in no way diminishes the brutality of the attack, it just demonstrates how unbelievably gullible so many people are to think it could not happen to them.

My guess the reason it's soooooo shocking to the few privileged Americans that actually get to read it is that The terrorists were funded by entities in our own Government.

Why would it be soooooo shocking otherwise? Would anybody be rocked to their core if it was Israel? Saudi Arabia? Anywhere other than somewhere in the western world?

Originally Posted by helge

Pakistan

Bingo

ISI or ISIS?



What was the name of the pakistani general who gave mohammed atta 100k in cash a few days before 9/11?

What are the odds that "Jihadi John" with a Luton accent is a Pakistani or of Pakistani dissent?

Originally Posted by beazalbob69

My guess the reason it's soooooo shocking to the few privileged Americans that actually get to read it is that The terrorists were funded by entities in our own Government.

Why would it be soooooo shocking otherwise? Would anybody be rocked to their core if it was Israel? Saudi Arabia? Anywhere other than somewhere in the western world?

What is the obsession with Israel, and the need to blame it for what we know was an attack, organized, funded and executed by Arabs and Pakistanis.


There has been an ongoing effort by those with an interest in attacking the USA and Israel to spew unsubstantiated claims in an attempt to sow confusion and to blame the USA for 9-11. None of the idiots, and they are idiots, acknowledges the failed attempt to bring down WTC 2 in 1993. The est. 606 kg bomb detonated and resulted in significant structural damage. However, due to an inappropriate positioning of the bomb, it failed to bring down the tower. The culprits were caught, interrogated, convicted and sent to prison. They were members of al-Qaeda. The mastermind behind the attack was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a major figure in al-Qaeda. He was one of the planners behind 9/11.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was caught in Pakistan in 2003 by the USA.
Osama Bin Laden was also caught in Pakistan,

The common link in all of the attacks on the USA has been Pakistan and people of Pakistani origin. Pakistan has served as a refuge and planning center for terrorism activity. Pakistan has also been the recipient of large amounts of US aid.