9/11 families vow to 'keep fighting' for justice 23 years later
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The 9/11 families facing yet another solemn anniversary of the terror attacks vow to “keep fighting.”
They have asked both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to pledge support for the legal fight against Saudi Arabia.
“The pledge, with over 3,000 signatories, asks that you commit to not endorse any normalization deal involving Saudi Arabia unless it fully addresses the role of the Saudi Arabian government in the 9/11 attacks,” a copy of both letters sent to the presidential candidates states.
The letters, shared with the Herald, go on to stress “the loss of 2,977 of our family members and loved ones” 23 years ago today can’t be dismissed.
The 9/11 kin are waiting for a federal judge in Manhattan to decide on their lawsuit alleging Saudi Arabia aided the first al Qaeda hijackers to land in the U.S. — at Los Angeles International Airport — and if more discovery can commence, court documents state.
The bandaid will be ripped off the 9/11 story if they can proceed.
“More than ever, we’re angry now that we’ve seen this new evidence,” said Brett Eagleson, who was 15 years old when his dad, Bruce, died while working at the World Trade Center on 9/11. “We deserve better. It’s a nightmare that 23 years later, we have to beg for justice, but we’re going to keep fighting.”
He’s not alone.
Retired FAA special agent Brian Sullivan, who warned about the risk of a terror attack at Logan Airport pre-9/11, said the “American people have a right to know about the Saudi involvement.”
The release of a chilling pre-9/11 video “rewrites everything Americans” have been told about the terror attacks, said Eagleson.
The video allegedly shows a Saudi suspect “casing the Capitol” in the summer of 1999, pointing out where Congress sits. Eagleson also says a companion sketchbook painstakingly shows “an aviator’s algorithm on how to hit a target on the horizon when flying a plane.”
The man behind the camera, court documents allege, is Omar Al Bayoumi — then working for Saudi intelligence, according to the FBI.
The video shows a man speaking in Arabic as he tours the Capitol. There are time stamps, footage of exits and entrances to Congress, a model of the building and nearby landmarks — including the towering Washington Monument. The plan to attack America using hijacked jets was hatched soon after, according to multiple reports.
Bayoumi has been linked to Nawaf Al Hazmi and Khalid Al Mihdhar — the first 9/11 hijackers. Bayoumi and another Saudi official, Fahad Al Thumairy, are accused of assisting them, court documents allege.
The rest is seared into America’s history: American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 — both out of Logan Airport in Boston — slammed into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center 18 minutes apart beginning at 8:45 a.m. on 9/11.
American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m.; United Flight 93 crashed last, at 10:03 a.m., in Shanksville, Pa.
Of all the 19 hijackers, 15 of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia.
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