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Schumer's 9/11 bill loophole to lock Saudis truth: Analyst

Thursday, 26 May 2016 5:35 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 26 May 2016 5:38 AM ]

Barrett believes Senator Schumer tried to protect Saudi Arabia by preventing the release of the true reasons behind the 9/11 attacks.

New York Senator Charles Schumer has poisoned an anti-Saudi Arabia draft bill to protect Israeli interests and prevent the Persian Gulf Kingdom from telling the truth about the 2001 attacks, says an author and political commentator.

Last week, the US Senate passed legislation that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to take legal action against Saudi Arabia and other foreign sponsors of terror for the possible roles they played in the attacks and pursue damages from them.

While the legislation still needed the Congress vote, Schumer inserted a clause to the bill that will reduce its power. The amendment gives the State and Justice departments the power to stop any litigation against Saudi Arabia.

Now Kevin Barrett believes that the senator tried to protect Saudi Arabia to prevent the release of the true reasons behind the attacks.

The American author, speaking in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday, also referred to a recent report on London-based Saudi daily al-Hayat and said the US administration had carried out the attacks in order to “terrorize the American public into sponsoring decades of endless war, doubling the military budget and regime change operations throughout the Middle East targeting the Muslim states.”

The US also wanted to rejuvenate its empire and remove those preventing “the hardliners in the military, intelligence and strategic communities from doing the very radical things they wanted to do,” he further noted.

According to Barrett, the main purpose of 9/11 was “to launch war against Israel’s enemies including the entire Islamic world that will never accept the Zionist occupation, ethnic cleansing and even genocide in Palestine.”

He noted that if there “had been any lawsuit in which the 9/11 victims’ families had gone after Saudis, the Saudis of course would defend themselves by telling a larger truth about the 9/11.”

Schumer, therefore, poisoned the bill by putting a poisoned pill to postpone an actual lawsuit or hearing.

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