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9/11 Report Spurs Call for Passage of Legislation

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Tuesday, July 19, 2016   

NEW YORK - Following the declassification of a secret congressional report, Senator Richard Blumenthal and victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks today are calling for passage of legislation to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its part in funding those attacks. The 28-page report is part of a larger, unclassified report on American intelligence failures in the days before the attacks. It was classified by the Bush administration in 2002, but finally released to the public last Friday. Blumenthal calls the declassified pages "a chilling indictment of Saudi Arabia's ties to violent extremism."

"Payments to terrorists and obstruction of United States anti-terrorist investigations that raise serious concerns about the Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks," he said.

Blumenthal helped secure Senate passage of legislation to help victims sue foreign supporters of terrorism in U.S. courts, but the bill has not yet cleared the House.

For the victims of those attacks, final passage of that bill
could be the first step toward justice. Terry Strada, national chair of 9/11 Families and Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism, lost her husband that day, leaving her with three children, the youngest just four days old.

"I made a promise to my children that we would get the bad guys," she said. "And I thought and believed for a long time that that's what my government was doing, but that simply didn't hold true."

Strada said holding accountable those who fund terrorism could help stop the pipeline of money that still flows to other terrorist organizations such as ISIS and Boko Haram.

Blumenthal said the legislation that passed the Senate in May would be an important step in that process.

"The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act would give these families who've lost loved ones a right to their day in court to take action against Saudi Arabia, present evidence and collect evidence," he said.

Saudi Arabia was dropped from a lawsuit by victims of 9/11 when it claimed sovereign immunity from prosecution. That ruling is being appealed.


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