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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2016, @05:12PM
They are the 'center' to Islam, religiously speaking. Both Mecca and Medina are in Saudi Arabia, putting them similiarly to Jerusalem for Jews and Vatican City for Catholics (Many 'Christians' would consider Israel the center, in much the same way many Muslims consider its locations important for their own pilgrimage needs.)
Point being: If you look deeper, the US, European, and Saudi Arabian leadership all have benefits to be gained by ensuring these continued conflicts locally and abroad. It is what gives them the power to keep their citizenry in line and distracted from domestic issues of which they should be intimately aware and involved in remedying. But instead they are distracted by the actions of or activities in each other's backyards and how xxx is going to infringe upon their way of life, instead of how their own leadership is doing exactly that.