<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[CO-OP NEWS]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://cooptv.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Coop Anti-War Cafe Berlin]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://cooptv.wordpress.com/author/zeitgeistmusic/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[US-Senator Rand Paul (R) calls for release of 9/11 report implicating Saudi&nbsp;Arabia]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><strong>Press TV</strong></p>
<p><strong>US Senator Rand Paul has joined a group of bipartisan lawmakers promoting legislation to force President Barack Obama to publish a classified document which reportedly implicates Saudi Arabia as a financier of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.</strong></p>
<p>Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, is sponsoring the &#8222;Transparency for the Families of 9/11 Victims and Survivors Act,&#8220; which would require the White House to declassify and make public the 28-page report that some say will show that Saudi Arabia financed the 9/11 attacks.</p>
<p>The 28 pages are part of a larger Congressional report on 9/11 intelligence released in 2002 called the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.</p>
<p>Paul appeared at a Capitol Hill press conference on Tuesday along with a bipartisan group of House of Representatives lawmakers, as well as members of the group 9/11 Families United for Justice Against Terrorism, according to the Washington Post.</p>
<p>&#8222;We cannot let page after page of blanked-out documents be obscured by a veil, leaving these family members to wonder if there is additional information surrounding these horrible acts,&#8220; Paul said at the press conference.</p>
<p>Paul&#8217;s current allies in the House are also pushing for the report’s release, along with Democratic co-sponsors of the bill Senators Ron Wyden and Kristen Gillibrand.</p>
<p>The George W. Bush administration decided to withhold parts of the report, claiming the contents would disclose intelligence gathering methods and make it more difficult to find terrorists.</p>
<p>The Saudi government was one of the Bush administration&#8217;s closest allies in the Middle East.</p>
<p>The redacted section has been held secret possibly because the pages show how much the Saudi government knew about 9/11 hijackers. The Saudi government, however, denies any connection.</p>
<p>The White House is now considering whether it will release the pages on its own. President Obama has previously said he supports such a move.</p>
<p>US officials assert that the attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage, were carried out by al-Qaeda terrorists but many analysts say it was a false-flag operation and that Osama bin Laden was just a bogeyman for the US military-industrial complex.</p>
<p>They believe rogue elements within the US government orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to boost the US economy and advance the Zionist agenda.</p>
<p>AHT/AGB</p>
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