Summary: Part I: THE 9/11 SAUDI CONNECTION Richard speaks with a leading aviation expert about his 10-year independent study on the 9/11 attacks. In his study he discovered the Saudi Arabian government and a covert special activities unit under the Bush Intelligence Community were the executioners of the attack that defeated all U.S. military defenses on September 11, 2001. In a new book, The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror, veteran airline captain and former government contract pilot Philip Marshall outlines the case against Saudi intelligence with a scathing examination of the 30-year relationship between the Saudi monarchy and top levels of the George W. Bush Administration. “After an exhaustive 10-year study of this lethal attack that used Boeing airliners filled with passengers and fellow crew members as guided missiles, I am 100 percent convinced that a covert team of Saudi intelligence agents was the source of logistical, financial and tactical resources that directed essential flight training to the 9/11 hijackers for 18 months before the attack,” said Marshall. “This conclusion was determined six years ago and all subsequent evidence has only served to confirm this conclusion.” On March 1, two former U.S. senators, who headed separate 9/11 federal investigations, also raised the specter of Saudi involvement in the attacks that killed 3,000 people and spurred the global War on Terror. In sworn statements that seem likely to reignite the debate, former senators Bob Graham and Bob Kerrey, who saw top-secret information on the Saudis’ activities, say they believe that the Saudi government played a direct role in the terrorist attacks. “I am convinced that there was a direct line between at least some of the terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and the government of Saudi Arabia,” former Senator Bob Graham said in an affidavit filed as part of a lawsuit brought against the Saudi government and dozens of institutions in the country by families of 9/11 victims and others. Graham headed a 2002 joint Congressional inquiry into the attacks and has stated that he was muzzled into silence about his committee’s findings in 2002 by former Vice President Dick Cheney and other top members of the Bush Intelligence Community. In his own sworn affidavit, Kerrey said “significant questions remain unanswered” about the role of Saudi institutions. “Evidence relating to the plausible involvement of possible Saudi government agents in the (9/11) attacks has never been fully pursued,” Kerrey said in the March 1 New York Times article. The affidavits, which were filed Feb. 24 and had not previously been disclosed, are part of a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit that has being going through federal courts since 2002. An appellate court, reversing an earlier decision, said in November that foreign nations were not immune to lawsuits under certain terrorism claims, clearing the way for parts of the Saudi case to be reheard in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. A long line of disclosures has surfaced since the 9/11 decade “celebration” last September. Of the four chairmen of federal investigations conducted on the 9/11 attacks, three have come forward to condemn the obstruction of justice that has plagued their investigations. Several government officials have stepped forward to challenge the Bush administration’s account of 9/11. These include the 9/11 Commission’s General Counsel John Farmer who wrote that “9/11 and the official version of events was almost entirely, and inexplicably, untrue.” Both 9/11 Commission leaders, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, a Republican, and Ohio Representative Lee Hamilton, a Democrat, complained about an obstruction of justice by the Bush administration regarding the Commission’s attempt to verify confessions and intelligence attributed to Guantanamo Bay detainees. These unverified confessions form the Bush administration’s version of the 9/11 event. Marshall,
