Saudi Arabia ignores existence of 9/11 victims, ‘very afraid’ of them – survivor
RT.com
10 Sep, 2016
Saudi Arabia is ignoring the victims of the 9/11 attacks, but is also “very afraid” of them, a survivor told RT on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the tragedy, adding that the US is more concerned about diplomatic ties than the needs of its people.
A new law will finally allow the 9/11 victims to move forward in their struggle to bring the people involved in the attacks to justice, William Rodriguez, a 9/11 survivor, told RT in an interview the day the House of Representatives passed a bill allowing US citizens to sue foreign countries for terrorism that kills Americans on US soil.
Known as House Resolution 3815, the “Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act,” or JASTA, which was already approved by the Senate in May, seeks to create an exception to sovereign immunity created by a 1976 law that has previously been invoked to shield Saudi Arabia from 9/11 lawsuits.
At the same time, Rodriguez said that Saudi Arabia still “totally ignores” the 9/11 victims, despite the fact that the release of 28 pages of a 2002 congressional report on the attacks in July proved that “the government of Saudi Arabia was indeed involved, because 17 out of the 19 hijackers were Saudi Arabians and they received money from [officials] at some levels.”
“Saudi Arabia has never accepted anything. What I have seen in the last six months of fighting with the kingdom, with the king himself, with the foreign minister, the minister of trade and the [Saudi] embassy here is that they try to ignore that we exist,” Rodriguez told RT, adding that the Saudis “tried to make us look as if we have no value.”
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