WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Reports of the financial ties between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and al-Qaeda is fuelling US public momentum to declassify 28 pages of the 2002 congressional joint inquiry dealing with the sponsorship of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States, US Congressman Walter Jones said on the floor of the House of Representatives.
“The movement to declassify the 28 pages is picking up momentum,” Jones said in a Tuesday floor speech. “Mainly because of the Zacarias Moussaoui recent comments exposing the financial link between the Saudi Royal Family and al-Qaeda.”
The New York Times reported last week that Moussaoui, a convicted former member of Al Qaeda being held in a US federal supermax prison, admitted to having high-level contact with Saudi government officials in the lead up to the September 11 attacks.
Jones, who has sponsored legislation in the House to declassify the section of the report, says the classified pages “deal with relationships,” in particular “the [George W.] Bush administration’s relationships with the Saudis.”
Former US Senator Bob Graham has often commented that the classified pages point to Saudi Arabian involvement in facilitating the September 11th attacks on the United States.
On Monday testimony given by Moussaoui was filed in a US federal court in New York. In his testimony Moussaoui confessed to be a liaison between al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the government of Saudi Arabia, claiming that top Saudi officials, including former intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, had been financial sponsors of al-Qaeda during the late 1990s.
The Saudi government has denied allegations of their support for al-Qaeda.
