US judge tells Saudi government to make current and former officials available for depositions over their possible knowledge of events leading up to the 9/11 attacks
to prove that some Saudi officials were either complicit in the attacks or aware of the kingdom’s support for some of the hijackers in the months before they hijacked four American airliners and crashed three of them into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
The effect of the ruling may depend on the willingness of the Saudi government to make its citizens available for testimony – especially since it includes some high-ranking figures who no longer hold official positions, and therefore cannot be compelled to testify.
The report said a lawyer for the Saudis did not respond to a request for comment, and no evidence has surfaced in the case that establishes Bandar had personal knowledge of what the Saudi hijackers were up to. But lawyers for the families of the 9/11 victims have been conducting a painstaking investigation that has developed a circumstantial case that two of the hijackers, Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaf al Hazmi, received financial and other support from individuals associated with the Saudi government after they arrived in the US after attending an al Qaeda planning summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
But significantly, the list includes other high-ranking royals who still serve in the government, including Saleh bin Abdulaziz, who served as Minister of Islamic Affairs at the time and, according to the judge’s ruling, extended al Thuimairy’s time in the United States and promoted him.
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