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Report on Sept 11 attacks due out soon
Washington, July 11: US government blunders and Saudi financing of terrorists will be revealed in a long-awaited final report on the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, a US Congressman said.
Washington, July 11: US government blunders and Saudi financing of terrorists will be revealed in a long-awaited final report on the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, a US Congressman said.
Representative Tim Roemer, an Indiana Democrat and former member of the house intelligence committee who said he had read the report, described it as "highly explosive."
It is "compelling and galvanizing and will refocus the public's attention on September 11," Roemer said yesterday, predicting that "certain mistakes, errors and gaps in the system will be made clear." Eleanor Hill, the staff director for the investigative panel created by the joint house and Senate intelligence committee, said Wednesday that several lengthy battles with the Bush administration over how much secret data to declassify have been resolved.
She said she expects the declassified version of the 800-page report to go to the government printing office late this week and then be made public about a week later.
The classified version was completed in December. A source familiar with the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two "sensitive areas" of the public report are especially likely to make headlines. One section provides new information on ties between the Saudi royal family, government officials and terrorists.
Another section of the report, according to Roemer, is a narrative of intelligence warnings, some of them ignored or not shared with other agencies, before the hijacked airliners were crashed into the World Trade Center and The Pentagon.
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It is "compelling and galvanizing and will refocus the public's attention on September 11," Roemer said yesterday, predicting that "certain mistakes, errors and gaps in the system will be made clear." Eleanor Hill, the staff director for the investigative panel created by the joint house and Senate intelligence committee, said Wednesday that several lengthy battles with the Bush administration over how much secret data to declassify have been resolved.
She said she expects the declassified version of the 800-page report to go to the government printing office late this week and then be made public about a week later.
The classified version was completed in December. A source familiar with the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two "sensitive areas" of the public report are especially likely to make headlines. One section provides new information on ties between the Saudi royal family, government officials and terrorists.
Another section of the report, according to Roemer, is a narrative of intelligence warnings, some of them ignored or not shared with other agencies, before the hijacked airliners were crashed into the World Trade Center and The Pentagon.
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