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A member of the 9/11 commission has broken his silence about some of the unreleased findings:
A former Republican member of the 9/11 commission, breaking dramatically with the commission's leaders, said Wednesday he believes there was clear evidence that Saudi government employees were part of a support network for the 9/11 hijackers and that the Obama administration should move quickly to declassify a long-secret congressional report on Saudi ties to the 2001 terrorist attack.
The comments by John F Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, signal the first serious public split among the 10 commissioners since they issued a 2004 final report that was largely read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia, which was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Sunday May 15 2016, @03:07PM
What does philantropy mean?
In every culture, there are rich old men, who see their expiry date coming up, and decide to spend their money on a Good Cause(TM) for a change. Maybe they do this to go to heaven, if they're religious.
But the effect of their philantropy depends a lot on their culture.
Some might be inclined to build a large scientific library, where scholars are invited to freely study and discuss anything, for example. Or to support an academic hospital with enough resources to study a serious disease for 20 years, say.
If they're Wahabbis, maybe they believe that the best use of some of their assets is to give a fat brown envelope to some young firebrands in a neighbouring country who swear to defend their faith "by the sword" and believe "the best defense is a strong offense".