[New Tang Dynasty News, September 4, 2021, Beijing time]On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the September 11th Incident, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on September 3, instructing the Ministry of Justice and relevant agencies to review and declassify the September 11 terror The investigation file of the attack. Some of these documents will be released as early as next week on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Biden formally signed an executive order on the same day, instructing the Attorney General and the heads of other agencies to conduct a declassified review of the FBI’s September 11 investigation report and make it public within six months to fulfill the campaign promise.
The administrative order stated that documents should be kept confidential only if the release of information poses a clear threat to national security, and should not be kept confidential “to cover up illegal, inefficient, or administrative errors, or to prevent embarrassment for individuals, organizations, or institutions.” “.
The executive order states, “The information collected and generated during the US government’s investigation of the September 11 terrorist attacks should now be disclosed, unless there is the strongest reason to suggest not to disclose it.”
Biden stated in a statement that he had promised to ensure the transparency of the decryption of US documents related to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. “As we are about to usher in the 20th anniversary of that tragic day, I am fulfilling this. A promise”.
Prior to the 20th anniversary of the September 11th incident, the White House had been facing pressure from the families of the “9.11” victims and the first batch of rescuers. They believed that confidential documents might indicate that the Saudi Arabian leader and the attack There is a connection.
Nearly 1,800 people affected by the “9.11” attack issued a statement in August, asking Biden to declassify government files to understand the role played by the Saudi government in the September 11 incident. Otherwise, the Biden government is not welcome to participate in this year’s event. Any commemoration, unless he publishes more documents.
Prior to this, the report of the “September 11” investigation committee did not find any evidence that Saudi leaders participated in the attack. It only mentioned that Saudi nationals played an important role in funding Al Qaeda. The Saudi government has always denied any connection with the attack.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said he supports the publication of these documents.
He said in a statement: “As we approach the 20th anniversary of that terrible day, the families of those killed and all Americans have the right to know the full story. As time goes by, the source of information has been lessened. And method concerns.”
The families of the victims of the “September 11” have been seeking U.S. government files to find out whether Saudi Arabia has assisted or funded any of the 19 members of the Al-Qaeda organization that launched the terrorist attack that day. At that time, 19 people hijacked the plane and crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon building in the suburbs of Washington, and the fields of Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. A committee of the US government once stated that there was no evidence that Saudi Arabia directly funded the Al-Qaeda organization, but it did not say whether individual Saudi officials might fund it.
The September 11 incident occurred on September 11, 2001. Terrorists hijacked four American civil aviation airliners, two crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one crashed into a corner of the Pentagon in Washington, and the other crashed in Pennsylvania. There were no survivors on the 4 passenger planes. This series of attacks resulted in the deaths of about 3,000 people and caused hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses.
After the September 11 incident, the United States identified Osama bin Laden, the leader of the “Al Qaeda” organization hiding in Afghanistan at the time, as the culprit, and launched a “war on terrorism” against Afghanistan in October 2001.
In the early morning of May 2, 2011, local time, US President Barack Obama announced at the White House that bin Laden was shot dead in his residence in Abbottabad, a city 150 kilometers north of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. By comparing the DNA of bin Laden and his dead sister, his identity was confirmed.
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