Saudi Arabia was involved in the September 11 terrorist attack

“Claims are growing for the White House to release a classified chapter of an official report that claims to link Saudi Arabia to the 11/XNUMX attacks,” The Times reports.

Bob Graham, who was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, claims that the investigation he led found evidence that the Saudis were the "major source of financing" for the attack.

“However, a 28-page chapter in the final version of the report that allegedly implicated members of the Saudi hierarchy was redacted by President Bush,” the article said.

The banned chapter could potentially change US policy in the Middle East, according to a former politician. "The now-retired Graham is demanding that the banned pages be published, and the campaign has now gained support in the US Senate for the first time," says author Rhys Blakely.

“Riyadh categorically denies any involvement in the attacks, but the 28 pages have become notorious since they were printed in 2002. The document is kept in a secure facility under the Capitol, in a folder called “Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive National Security Matters,” the newspaper writes.

President Bush justified his actions by the fact that the publication of the report could reveal “sources and methods that would make it difficult for us to win the war on terrorism.”

Congressman Walter Jones has reviewed the pages - under supervision so that he does not take notes - and denies that national security is at stake, the newspaper reports. “I would put it this way: this concerns the relationship between the Middle East and the Bush administration,” he said.

“The pages are believed to be related in part to Nawaf al-Azmi and Khalid al-Mikhdar, two Saudi nationals who helped hijack the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Pentagon in the attacks. While they lived in Southern California, they were allegedly supported by Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi citizen who was said to be in contact with the country's embassy in Washington.

Graham, meanwhile, wrote a novel, The Keys to the Kingdom, in which a State Department official "uncovers a shocking global conspiracy linking the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda."