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Media Release Friday, 9 September 2016

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au
 

To protect Australians from ISIS, government must address the ‘28 pages’

ISIS is able to threaten to kill Australians in “Brunswick, Broadmeadows, Bankstown and Bondi”, because the Australian government and media, in collusion with their counterparts in the USA and UK, continue to cover up Saudi Arabia’s financial and logistical support for the 9/11 attack on New York City and Washington, DC, fifteen years ago this weekend.

The Saudi role in 9/11 is revealed in the 28 pages of the 2002 report of the US Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11, which first the Bush-Cheney administration and then Obama suppressed for nearly 14 years, until, under pressure, the White House finally declassified them in July.

Click here to read the full 28 pages, reprinted verbatim, and supporting information in the CEC’s pamphlet To Stop a Near-term Terror Attack, read the ‘28 Pages!’

Because these 28 pages were suppressed for so long, the Saudi terrorist apparatus they identify has been able to flourish, leading to the rise of ISIS, which now threatens every nation, including Australia. Don’t just take the CEC’s word for it: this is the informed view of former US Senator Bob Graham, who authored the 28 pages as chair of the 2002 Joint Inquiry, and led the campaign to have them released.

Graham issued his Congressional report on 9/11 in December 2002, which is when the Bush White House promptly classified the 28 pages about the Saudis. A few months later, he was one of the few US Senators to vote against the Iraq war—compared with fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton for instance—knowing that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, and that the neocons in the White House and British government who were fabricating intelligence to justify invading Iraq were covering up for Saudi Arabia. Australian Prime Minister John Howard was one of those who insinuated that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.

At a 7 January 2015 press conference in Washington DC, on the day of the Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris, Graham blamed the current wave of terrorism on the suppression of the 28 pages: “There is a threat to national security by non-disclosure, and we saw another chapter of that today in Paris.

“What would you think the Saudis’ position would be, if they knew what they had done, they knew that the United States knew what they had done, and they also observed that the United States had taken a position of either passivity, or actual hostility to letting those facts be known? What would the Saudi government do in that circumstance, which is precisely where they have been, for more than a decade?

“Well, one, they have continued, maybe accelerated their support for one of the most extreme forms of Islam, Wahhabism, throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East. And second, they have supported their religious fervor, with financial and other forms of support, of the institutions which were going to carry out those extreme forms of Islam. Those institutions have included mosques, madrassas, and military. Al-Qaeda was a creature of Saudi Arabia; the regional groups such as al-Shabaab have been largely creatures of Saudi Arabia; and now, ISIS is the latest creature!

Even though the 28 pages were finally released in July, they have been largely buried; in Australia they have not been reported at all. Yet the implications are enormous. For instance, the San Diego Reader has just reported a former FBI agent says he is “200 per cent” sure that the 9/11 attack “would have been stopped” if, in early 2000, the CIA had not blocked him and a fellow agent from sending a memo warning that a known terrorist, who would become a 9/11 hijacker, had arrived in the USA. The FBI agent was investigating the same San Diego-based terrorists and Saudi agents who are the subject of the 28 pages.

Not just the Saudis …

Combined with the revelations in the 28 pages, the FBI agent’s claim demands a new, unconstrained investigation of both 9/11, and the subsequent cover-up. This investigation must include the role of the British government, Saudi Arabia’s longstanding partner in war and arms trading, in facilitating the financing of 9/11 through the al-Yamamah oil-for-arms deal.

The Australian government is complicit in the crimes, especially the illegal invasion of Iraq, committed by those who covered up the 28 pages. Australians are now under threat from the consequences of that cover-up and resultant crimes, namely ISIS. Therefore the Turnbull government, and the Opposition, must demand, on behalf of all Australians, that our US and UK allies conduct full and open investigations of this issue. If Turnbull and Shorten, and the Australian media, continue to remain quiet on this scandal, they will be responsible for any harm that befalls Australians.

Click here to watch a 31 August press conference by former US Senator Bob Graham, on the necessary follow-up to the release of the 28 pages to ensure justice for the victims of 9/11 and the end of terrorism.

Click here for information on how you can join the CEC’s “28 pages” mobilisation to defeat terrorism!

Click here for one or more copies of the CEC’s pamphlet, To Stop a Near-term Terror Attack, Read the ‘28 Pages!’

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