{"id":6694,"date":"2016-06-12T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2016-06-12T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T11:23:09","slug":"no-proof-of-saudi-involvement-in-911-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/no-proof-of-saudi-involvement-in-911-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"No proof of Saudi involvement in 9\/11 : CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6695\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/CIA-director-John-Brennan.jpg\" alt=\"CIA director John Brennan\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/>CIA director John Brennan told Al Arabiya News Channel&#8217;s Washington Bureau Chief Nadia Bilbassy-Charters in an exclusive interview on Saturday that \u201cthere was no evidence\u201d of a Saudi involvement in the 9\/11 attacks.<br \/>\nHis remarks came after a 28-page congressional investigatory report claimed that there were proofs Saudi officials had supported al-Qaeda in the run-up to the attacks.<br \/>\nIn May, John Lehman, a member of the Sept. 11 commission, told CNN that the classified contained evidence that as many as six Saudi officials supported Al-Qaeda.<br \/>\nBut Brennan, in his first interview with an Arab media outlet, dismissed the claim.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Sep. 11 commission looked very thoroughly at these allegations of Saudi involvement, Saudi government involvement and their findings, their conclusion was that there was no evidence to indicate that the Saudi government as an institution or Saudi senior officials individually had supported the Sep. 11 attacks,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe director said \u201cit is good\u201d that this 28-page report will \u201ccome out.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe assessments that have been done show it was very unfortunate that these attacks took place but this was the work of al-Qaeda, [al-Qaeda\u2019s leader Ayman] al-Zawahri, and others of that ilk,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nHe also said \u201cover the last 15 years, the Saudis have become among our best counterterrorism partners.\u201d<br \/>\nBrennan described both Saudi King Salman and his deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as \u201cstrong partners in this fight against terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/no-proof-of-saudi-involvement-in-911-cia\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIA director John Brennan told Al Arabiya News Channel&#8217;s Washington Bureau Chief Nadia Bilbassy-Charters in an exclusive interview on Saturday that \u201cthere was no evidence\u201d of a Saudi involvement in the 9\/11 attacks. 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