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Sen. Graham Reveals 9/11 Cover-Up
Daily Kos
September 07, 2004

Sen. Graham Book Bombshell: Proof of 9/11 Cover-Up

Remember when Graham was running for the Dem. nomination, and said he
had the goods on the Bush Administration? Well, here it is:

Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the
United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the
Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation
into that relationship, Sen. Bob Graham wrote in a book to be
released Tuesday.

The discovery of the financial backing of the two hijackers ''would
draw a direct line between the terrorists and the government of
Saudi Arabia, and trigger an attempted coverup by the Bush
administration,'' the Florida Democrat wrote.

And in Graham's book, Intelligence Matters, obtained by The Herald
Saturday, he makes clear that some details of that financial support
from Saudi Arabia were in the 27 pages of the congressional
inquiry's final report that were blocked from release by the
administration, despite the pleas of leaders of both parties on the
House and Senate intelligence committees.

According to Graham, the FBI and the White House blocked efforts to
investigate the extent of official Saudi connections to two hijackers.

Graham wrote that the staff of the congressional inquiry concluded that
two Saudis in the San Diego area, Omar al-Bayoumi and Osama Bassan, who
gave significant financial support to two hijackers, were working for
the Saudi government.

Al-Bayoumi received a monthly allowance from a contractor for Saudi
Civil Aviation that jumped from $465 to $3,700 in March 2000, after he
helped Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhdar -- two of the Sept. 11
hijackers -- find apartments and make contacts in San Diego, just before
they began pilot training.

When the staff tried to conduct interviews in that investigation, and
with an FBI informant, Abdussattar Shaikh, who also helped the eventual
hijackers, they were blocked by the FBI and the administration, Graham
wrote.

The administration and CIA also insisted that the details about the
Saudi support network that benefited two hijackers be left out of the
final congressional report, Graham complained.

Bush had concluded that ''a nation-state that had aided the terrorists
should not be held publicly to account,'' Graham wrote. ``It was as if
the president's loyalty lay more with Saudi Arabia than with America's
safety.''

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/9584265.htm

/Incidentally, this makes Michael Moore's inclusion of the Saudi-Bush
connection in 9/11 a bit less "silly and gratuitous", as many sniffing
critics had it. /