{"id":37298,"date":"2018-09-03T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37298"},"modified":"2018-09-03T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:25:28","slug":"cia-and-saudi-arabia-conspired-to-keep-9-11-details-secret-new-book-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37298","title":{"rendered":"CIA and Saudi Arabia Conspired to Keep 9\/11 Details Secret, New Book Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/cia-and-saudi-arabia-conspired-keep-911-details-secret-new-book-says-1091935\">CIA AND SAUDI ARABIA CONSPIRED TO KEEP 9\/11 DETAILS SECRET, NEW BOOK SAYS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article-videoplayer hidden-print\">\n<div class=\"videocontent-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"videocontent\">\n<div class=\"tvplayer\">\n<div id=\"tvplayer_main\" class=\"fusion-player ibtplayer video-js vjs-default-skin vjs-controls-enabled vjs-workinghover vjs-v6 vjs-user-active vjs-fade-out vjs-playing vjs-has-started tvplayer_main-dimensions\" lang=\"en\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Video Player\"><video id=\"tvplayer_main_html5_api\" class=\"vjs-tech\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/video.newsweekgroup.com\/transcoder\/480hls\/151\/saudi-arabia-feature-1511285324.m3u8\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" preload=\"none\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>It\u2019s easier to bury uncomfortable facts than to confront them. So this September 11, the ceremonies marking the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., will simply honor the dead. In Manhattan, tourists and mourners will gather where the World Trade Center Towers once stood, lowering their heads in memory of the 2,606 who perished there. The services won&#8217;t reflect the view that the attacks might\u00a0well have been prevented.<\/p>\n<p>But for hundreds of families and a growing number of former FBI agents, the grief of another 9\/11 ceremony will be laced with barely muted rage: There remains a conspiracy of silence among high former U.S. and Saudi officials\u00a0about the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s horrible. We still don\u2019t know what happened,\u201d said Ali Soufan, one of the lead FBI counterterrorism agents whom the CIA kept in the dark about the movements of the future Al-Qaeda hijackers. To Soufan and many other former national security officials, the unanswered questions about the events leading up to the September 11, 2001, attacks dwarf those about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, because \u201c9\/11 changed the whole world.\u201d It not only led to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the fracturing of the Middle East and the global growth of Islamic militantism\u00a0but also pushed the U.S. closer to being a virtual homeland-security police state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sad and depressed about it,\u201d said Mark Rossini, one of two FBI agents assigned to the CIA\u2019s Osama bin Laden unit, who says\u00a0agency managers mysteriously blocked them from informing their headquarters about future Al-Qaeda plotters present in the United States in 2000 and again in the summer of 2001. \u201cIt is patently evident the attacks did not need to happen and there has been no justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIA AND SAUDI ARABIA CONSPIRED TO KEEP 9\/11 DETAILS SECRET, NEW BOOK SAYS It\u2019s easier to bury uncomfortable facts than to confront them. So this September 11, the ceremonies marking the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., will simply honor the dead. 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