US CIA 'defends' Saudi Arabia in 9/11 terrorist attack

(Baonghean.vn) -CIA Director John Brennan said the 9/11 Commission did notdetectEvidence linking Saudi Arabia to the 2011 terrorist attacks in New York.

The attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York on September 11, 2001. Photo: AP.

According to Sputnik, US media previously reported that the Saudi Arabian government's support for terrorists in the 9/11 incident was detailed in a 28-page US Congressional investigation report on the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

In April, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the report contained no evidence that Saudi Arabia was intentionally involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

Responding to Al Arabiya TV channel on June 12, Mr. Brennan affirmed: "After that, the 9/11 Commission thoroughly examined the allegations of Saudi Arabia's involvement, concluding that there was no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or individual senior Saudi officials supported the 9/11 attacks."

According to Brennan, Saudi Arabia has been one of America's most active counterterrorism partners over the past 15 years.

In May, the head of the CIA said a 28-page secret document from the 9/11 Commission could be misleading because it contained inaccurate information that could be used to link Saudi Arabia to terrorist attacks.

On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked four passenger planes in the United States, crashing two into the World Trade Center towers in New York, a third into the Pentagon, and a fourth toward Washington, D.C., intending to attack the White House on Capitol Hill. About 3,000 people were killed in this series of bloody terrorist attacks.

A US congressional committee then released its investigative report in 2002, minus a 28-page chapter allegedly on foreign financing of terrorist attacks.

Thao Linh

(According to Sputnik)