Unraveling Complicity: Saudi Influence on 9/11 Lawsuits

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This week Matt shares a mostly under-the-radar story which has completely changed his understanding of the events of September 11, 2001. 

As the 23rd anniversary of the attacks approaches, a mountain of information emerging from lawsuits filed by 9/11 families has revealed far more extensive ties between both al-Qaeda and at least two of the hijackers to the Saudi government than were ever previously known. Why has justice taken so long? How does the law even allow this suit to proceed, and why did Congress have to override Barack Obama’s veto to allow it to move forward? Why has some of the best journalism about this lawsuit been from Golf Digest? And has the time come for a second 9/11 commission to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the day that changed everything?

1. Complaint in Ashton v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (filed March 20, 2017)

2. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss (filed 5/10/24)

3. Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (filed 5/7/24)

4. Blood, Oil and Golf: The emergence of LIV Golf highlights the Kingdom’s troubling influence Alan Shipnuck, Golf Digest (8/19/2022)

5. New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity, Daniel Benjamin and Stephen Simon, The Atlantic (5/20/24)

6. “The Declassified 28 Pages,” 28Pages.org

7. 60 Minutes excerpt which includes Omar Al Bayoumi’s 1999 video of the US Capitol (6/20/2024)

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