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US judge says Saudi officials must testify in Sept 11 lawsuit
But the judge said the plaintiffs' materials indicated he "likely has first-hand knowledge" of the role one official "was assigned by the Kingdom and the diplomatic cover provided to the propagators" working in the US.
It was not immediately clear how Saudi Arabia might arrange for or compel testimony by its citizens, including those no longer in the government.
James Kreindler, a lawyer for the victims, called the decision a "major development" because Saudi Arabia had produced little documentation concerning its government officials working in the US before the attacks.
The Justice Department announced on Thursday that it would finally name the Saudi official with alleged ties to the al-Qaeda perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
.US to reveal Saudi official allegedly tied to 9/11 attackers
The person is the last of three main officials in Saudi Arabia referred to in an FBI report into the attacks and allegedly assisted some of the attackers after they arrived in the US.
In all 19 men, 15 of them Saudis, took part in the plot to hijack four commercial aircraft and crash them into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and possibly the White House or Congress.
It was not immediately clear how Saudi Arabia might arrange for or compel testimony by its citizens, including those no longer in the government.
Did they throw away the locked doors from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
Did they throw away the gas can used at the Happyland Social Club Fire?
Did they cast aside the pressure-regulating valves at the Meridian Plaza Fire?
Of course not.
But essentially, that’s what they’re doing at the World Trade Center.
For more than three months, structural steel from the World Trade Center has been and continues to be cut up and sold for scrap.
Crucial evidence that could answer many questions about high-rise building design practices and performance under fire conditions is on the slow boat to China, perhaps never to be seen again in America until you buy your next car.
No. Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the “official investigation” blessed by FEMA and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half-baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure.
Except for the marginal benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites conducted by ASCE investigation committee members- described by one close source as a “tourist trip”-no one’s checking the evidence for anything.
As things now stand and if they continue in such fashion, the investigation into the World Trade Center fire and collapse will amount to paper- and computer generated hypotheticals.
However, respected members of the fire protection engineering community are beginning to raise red flags, and a resonating theory has emerged:
The structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves were not enough to bring down the towers.