If that's true - then why withhold the last 28 pages of the 9/11 report?...
CIA Chief: 'No Evidence' of Saudi Backing of 9/11 Attacks
May 01, 2016 | WASHINGTON— U.S. intelligence chief John Brennan says there is "no evidence" indicating that Saudi Arabia gave backing to al-Qaida for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
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Five Years After Bin Laden's Death, What's Changed?
May 1 2016 - Shortly before midnight on May 1st, 2011, President Barack Obama stood at a lectern in the East Room of the White House and delivered a startling announcement: American forces had located — and killed — the most wanted terrorist on the planet, Osama bin Laden.
CIA Chief: 'No Evidence' of Saudi Backing of 9/11 Attacks
May 01, 2016 | WASHINGTON— U.S. intelligence chief John Brennan says there is "no evidence" indicating that Saudi Arabia gave backing to al-Qaida for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
Speculation that the Saudis were involved has some in Congress demanding that 28 pages of a congressional probe into 9/11 be released. Those 28 pages focus on Saudi Arabia and its alleged involvement. Brennan, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told NBC television's Meet the Press Sunday that the information on those pages "was not corroborated, not vetted, and not deemed to be accurate." He said the congressional panels "came out with a very clear judgment that there was no evidence indicating that the Saudi government as an institution, or Saudi officials individually, had provided financial support to al-Qaida."
A boy plays with a tennis ball in front of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 2011. Osama bin Laden was killed at his compound on May 2, 2011, by a U.S. special forces team.
Brennan said those 28 pages were withheld from the public because of the sensitive sources used in the investigation. He spoke a day before the fifth anniversary of a U.S. special forces operation in Pakistan that hunted down and killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In an interview taped for broadcast Monday, President Barack Obama told CNN television that he ordered the raid when he did because "if we did not take action, [bin Laden] might slip away and it might take years before he resurfaces."
Bin Laden was the world's most wanted criminal and the leader of al-Qaida, whose terrorist followers flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington, killing 3,000 people. A third hijacked jet also was likely headed for Washington before passengers overwhelmed the terrorists and crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. Just seconds before bin Laden was shot dead by U.S special forces, Obama said "hopefully, at that moment, [bin Laden] understood that the American people hadn't forgotten the some 3,000 people who he killed."
CIA Chief: 'No Evidence' of Saudi Backing of 9/11 Attacks
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Five Years After Bin Laden's Death, What's Changed?
May 1 2016 - Shortly before midnight on May 1st, 2011, President Barack Obama stood at a lectern in the East Room of the White House and delivered a startling announcement: American forces had located — and killed — the most wanted terrorist on the planet, Osama bin Laden.
Obama briefly described the operation, then he reminded viewers of how notable it was that the man who helped found the most well-known terrorist organization around — al Qaeda — and orchestrated the mass-murder of more than 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, was gone. "For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda's leader and symbol, and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies," Obama said. "The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda." Yet five years later, militant Islamic extremism has hardly receded. Here are three important developments since bin Laden's death.
Rise of Islamic State
The group, which has also been identified as ISIS or ISIL, surged onto the international stage two years ago with a series of brutal, headline-grabbing events — mass executions, beheadings, and enslavement. As it gobbled up territory in Iraq and Syria, its once al Qaeda-affiliated leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the group a caliphate.
Baghdadi's announcement marked a new chapter in an ancient pattern for Islamic extremism. And unlike Bin Laden's replacement, Ayman al-Zawahiri, jihadis heralded Baghdadi as a commanding presence. "He's a fighter, he's a warrior," Shashank Joshi, a research fellow at the London-based Royal United Services Institute think tank, told NBC News last year. "He's carved out the state, whereas Zawahiri is seen as someone who is on the run."
While air strikes in Iraq and Syria have stripped the Islamic State of some of its territory, Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East negotiator and scholar with the Wilson Center, told NBC News that the group has "jumped borders" and is "broader and deeper than we probably know." It also claimed responsibility for the terror attacks in Paris, Brussels and Egypt, while in Nigeria Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to the group, as did Tashfeen Malik, who helped kill 14 people and injure 22 more in San Bernardino, California in December.
Al Qaeda Resurgence?