The Bush administration has a MO of hiding the facts and claiming their
opposite.
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Sun, Sep. 05, 2004
Graham book: Inquiry into 9/11, Saudi ties blocked
By FRANK DAVIES
WASHINGTON - 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.
Graham also revealed that Gen. Tommy Franks told him on Feb. 19, 2002, just
four months after the invasion of Afghanistan, that many important
resources -- including the Predator drone aircraft crucial to the search for
Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda leaders -- were being shifted to prepare for a
war against Iraq.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/9584265.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
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They Knew...
Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned
before the war that its Iraq claims were weak
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
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