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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 08:49 AM Jul 2017

It's like ordering us to accept bin Laden's "vehement denial" that he had nothing to do with 9/11.

Putin did it.

The intelligence community knows he did it.

Putin knows he did it.

Where the HELL do you go from here?

"I've already given my opinion....."


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It's like ordering us to accept bin Laden's "vehement denial" that he had nothing to do with 9/11. (Original Post) Miles Archer Jul 2017 OP
Opinion is not fact. no_hypocrisy Jul 2017 #1
What the King says carries the force of law dalton99a Jul 2017 #3
And the law is often wrong Not Ruth Jul 2017 #5
Precisely. dalton99a Jul 2017 #2
You are going to need the equivalent of the 9/11 Commision Report Not Ruth Jul 2017 #4
OR, the documentation we DO have, versus Putin saying "I didn't do it." Miles Archer Jul 2017 #7
A 70yo with dementia was pressing a KGB-agent to tell the truth. DetlefK Jul 2017 #6
I'm not so sure I accept Bin Laden as responsible JonLP24 Jul 2017 #8
 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
4. You are going to need the equivalent of the 9/11 Commision Report
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 08:57 AM
Jul 2017

The commission interviewed over 1,200 people in 10 countries and reviewed over two and a half million pages of documents, including some closely guarded classified national security documents. The commission also relied heavily on the FBI's PENTTBOM investigation. Before it was released by the commission, the final public report was screened for any potentially classified information and edited as necessary.....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
7. OR, the documentation we DO have, versus Putin saying "I didn't do it."
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 09:41 AM
Jul 2017

Seems to me that is the sum total of the "proof" we have from Russia is Russia saying "We didn't do it."

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
8. I'm not so sure I accept Bin Laden as responsible
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 10:35 AM
Jul 2017

One thing he was never formally indicted for it. Then you have the questionable Bin Laden video where he does admit. Early reports after 9/11 indicated the NSA heard "chatter" that Bin Laden was responsible.

Personally, I'm certain Bandar Bush was the point man for the attacks plus the CIA met with 2 of the hijackers before entering Florida (or maybe San Diego-- I'd have to look it up) and failed to give the FBI a heads up.

Prince and the '28 pages': Indirect 9/11 link to Saudi royal revealed

Washington (CNN)When the United States caught its first big al Qaeda operative, six months after the 9/11 terror attacks, it found a disturbing clue: phone numbers linked to the United States.

In an overnight raid, Pakistani forces captured Abu Zubaydah, allegedly a recruiter for the terror group and a member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle.

Now, 14 years after Zubaydah was apprehended, newly declassified information from a 2002 congressional report on the 9/11 attacks, dubbed the "28 pages," reveals an indirect link previously hidden from the American public between the alleged al Qaeda operative and a company associated with a key member of the Saudi royal family, former Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan.

Ever since 19 men -- 15 of them Saudi nationals -- hijacked four airplanes and changed the course of American history, the possibility of official Saudi involvement has hung over the relationship between the two countries. While the alleged association with Bandar revealed in the newly declassified pages does not provide direct evidence the prince was complicit in the 9/11 attacks, it raises new questions about Saudi Arabia's involvement.

The connection to Bandar was made through Zubaydah's phone book, retrieved during the Pakistani raid in which he was taken. In it, the FBI found numbers linked to the United States, including an unlisted number for a company that managed Bandar's estate in Aspen, Colorado. An unlisted number was also found for a bodyguard who worked at the Saudi Embassy in Washington.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/05/politics/28-pages-saudi-prince-bandar-9-11/index.html

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