Classified documents detailing the Saudi government’s alleged ties to the 9/11 terrorist attack will be released by Congress as early as Friday, according to several reports.
The dispatch — 28 pages of undisclosed information — has been kept under wraps since a 2002 investigation into the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people a year earlier.
The top secret documents are said to contain information about “specific sources of foreign support for some of the September 11 hijackers.”
Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the report will be posted online soon.
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“The House Intelligence Committee will get the redacted report today or tomorrow,” Schiff said. “The Senate and House intel committees should then give the formal go ahead to release the report since they originally produced it.”
The dispatch — 28 pages of undisclosed information — has been kept under wraps since a 2002 investigation into the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people a year earlier.
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Under pressure from the victims’ families and lawmakers, President Obama said in April his administration would declassify the pages.
Terry Strada, whose husband was working on the 104th floor of the North Tower when the planes struck, has been pushing for the right to sue Saudi Arabia over its alleged involvement in the attack. Strada and her husband had had their third child just four days earlier.
“All of this could be settled, if we would just release the 28 pages and let everyone see what’s in there,” Strada said. “If it was just this low-level government officials in the Saudi Arabian government, then they have nothing to worry about. The American people deserve this just as much as the 9/11 families deserve it, but we’re the ones that are suffering by not having them released.”
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Former Democratic Sen. Bob Graham, who chaired the commission, first received word from a source close to the Obama administration for the summer release back in April.
Front page of the New York Daily News for April 21 features Obama’s vow to veto legislation allowing 9/11 victims’ families sue Saudia Arabia for its purported role in the attacks.
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“I hope that decision is to honor the American people and make it available,” Graham told NBC. “The most important unanswered question of 9/11 is, did these 19 people conduct this very sophisticated plot alone, or were they supported?”
Sources said the documents lists three dozen people connected to the Saudi government who had contact with the hijackers.
Saudi government officials, who have denied any role in the attack, reportedly want the documents to be released so they can have a chance to respond to the allegations.
