The Author Louis Cammarosano wrote that Saudi Arabia played a great role in maintaining the dollar as the world’s key reserves currency
President Hosny Mubarak was not fooled by the scenario of the attacks and he doubted the possibility of any Arab or Muslims being involved
By Eiman Rashed
Early March 2016, a US federal court ordered Iran, in case no. 3229, to pay the sum of $10.5bn in damages to the families of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. This comes following accusations by the US administration that Iran struck a secret deal with a group affiliate to Al-Qaeda and financed them to recruit more members and execute the attacks. Meanwhile, Western media and a number of Congressmen launched a furious assault against KSA to distract attentions away from this rule.
Here are few questions that need to be answered: USA plays for which team, what are the 28 papers, and what is the role of the Iranian and Israeli lobbies in these attacks?
Bob Graham, former senator and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is one of the most informed figures about documents related to the September 11 attacks, and he wrote about a shadowy Saudi role in the attacks in his novel “Keys to the Kingdom”. He emphasized that the confidential information reported in a 28-page file trace the attacks to a network of people who are believed to have started sponsoring terrorism following their arrival in the US. “I do not believe that 19 persons- most of who do not speak English, have never been to the US, and some of who have not received a high school education, can execute such a complicated mission without a substantial back up from inside the US”, he added in an interview with “60 minutes” show, assuring that “the support structure that made 9/11 possible” did not come from a specific source.
In the same context, Chief National Security Correspondent for CNN Jim Sciutto said that the concealed files from the 9/11 investigation committee’s report might include evidence on links between a Saudi official to the attackers. “Case centres on 28 pages of that 9/11 commission report. Those are 28 pages there are so classified and they are set to focus on the role of overseas governments in the 9/11 plot. Saudi Arabia has long denied any involvement and never been implicated. Of course, the majority of the suicide bombers in 9/11 were Saudi but we’re talking government here,” Sciutto said. He added ” Now that the key thing about these 28 pages in the 9/11 report and CNN, we did our own reporting on this going into last year is it centres on one particular Saudi government official and did he have knowledge of the 9/11 attacks in advance. Did he provide support? There’s evidence that he met with some of the hijackers.”
Fingers pointing to an Israeli- American involvement:
Evidence came out unveiling that the US and Israel co-conspired in the attacks, for over 700 Jews who were employees at the World Trade Center did not show up at work on September 11, which proves their knowledge of the time of the attacks. This was to create a new enemy for the whole world to fight, namely Islam and Muslims, under the pretext of countering terrorism and extremism. We have seen how Iraq and Afghanistan paid a high price for these attacks, because of the American plot executed meticulously.
This scenario was revealed by Thierry Meyssan, a French journalist and political activist, who questioned in one of his books the Arab involvement in the attacks, and refuted the American stories, consequently sparking a wide international controversy. He said that the fourth plane they claimed it crashed into the Pentagon is a lie, for no plane hit the building, adding that what happened was entirely an American scheme. For, the Boeing 757-200 is a huge plane with the capacity to carry 239 persons and can travel 900km/hour, and if it had truly struck the Pentagon, it would have caused way more damage than could be imagined. Moreover, he wonders why its ruins were not found.
President Hosny Mubarak:
The attackers flying the plane were not amateurs but rather professionals
Mubarak questioned the attack on the World Trade Center and that any Arabs or Muslims might be involved. On September 15, he said to CNN that whoever carried the attack must have flew more than once over the area to know what hindrances they might face when flying on a low level. When he was asked by the interviewer if he suggests that the attack is in fact an American internal operation, he responded quickly that he does not want to jump to hasty conclusions. He also said that, out of his experience as a former pilot, he assures that the attackers were not amateurs but rather professionals who must have practiced several times on the mission. For his part, Director-General of ISESCO Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, said that proposing and discussing a bill to trail and accuse KSA of 9/11 attacks proves the US administration’s cunning and manipulation. “I have always believed, and still does, that 9/11 attacks are an Iranian-Israeli making. Several clues have emerged, but the Zionist media is trying to cover,” he added. He pointed out that powerful professional media outlets are the way to face this American blackmailing against KSA is Risks of the Saudi threats to Washington.
A number of experts believe that the Saudi threats to the US manifest its choice to blowing it all away for everyone. While Washington, on the other hand, sought to press the Congress against passing the bill that would allow them to sue KSA over 9/11 attacks.
Last month, senior officials at US Secretaries of State and Defense warned members of the House of Representatives’ armed forces committee that passing this bill jeopardizes the American economy. The Author Louis Cammarosano had previously tried to analyze the repercussions of any US-Saudi political crisis on the economy, concluding: “Saudi Arabia has a great role in maintaining the dollar as the world’s key reserves currency”.
Cammarosano pointed out that it is not important how much oil KSA sells to the US, especially since it does the same to many other countries across the world. But, what really matters is what it does to keep oil priced in US dollars at OPEC, which means that it holds its position as the main reserve currency to its member states.
This mutual agreement has been going on since the 1970s, which created the phenomenon known as “Petrodollar” which in turn resulted into a non-stopping international demand on dollars, both in the form of cash and securities. Because of its heavy debts, Washington sustains its budget through dollar bonds mostly sold to foreigners, which means that it must always ensure that there is a high demand on its currency.
As for the current US presidential candidates’ stance on the bill, the Republican Donald Trump said that the main reason his country supported Saudi Arabia is because it needed oil, but now it does not, adding that in case the American leadership is changed, they won’t need any of the Saudi oil. “I think if Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection of our country’s… I don’t think it would be around. It would be, whether it was internal or external, it wouldn’t be around for very long. And they’re a money machine, they’re a monetary machine, and yet they don’t reimburse us the way we should be reimbursed,” he added.
The Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton reportedly supports the bill, as well. This means that the US, under its new president, will probably sue the Saudi regime.
