Families of 9/11 victims rip Biden, Trump over silence after new video showed Saudi spy filming US Capitol
Families of 9/11 victims Tuesday ripped President Biden and ex-President Trump for failing to end “this national nightmare” and take on the Saudis for their alleged involvement in the terror attacks.The grieving relatives — part of the 9/11 Justice organization — slammed Biden and his GOP rival for failing to mention during their debate last week the existence of chilling new footage that showed a suspected Saudi spy filming US landmarks as the attacks were being plotted.“We’re no longer looking to be coddled or comforted.We stand here pissed off,” Brett Eagleson, president of 9/11 Justice, said at a press conference in Lower Manhattan.“It’s 23 years later, and our government has failed to bring us accountability, closure and justice.
Our government fails to talk tough on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”The 1999-era clip in question, which only surfaced publicly last month, captured Omar al-Bayoumi — an accused Saudi intelligence operative with close ties to two of the 9/11 hijackers — giving a tour of landmarks in Washington, DC, including the US Capitol building and the Washington Monument.The video, which aired on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and was then unsealed in federal court, was shot just months before al Qaeda officials decided what targets to strike during the terror attacks.While the US government has maintained that al Qaeda acted alone Sept.
11, the victims’ families believe the footage proves the terror group had help — specifically from the Saudis.“There was a debate, if you want to call it a debate, less than a week ago, where the two candidates for president knew about the existence of this video and neither one of them had the courage to stand with the 9/11 families and address this issue,” Eagleson said.“There’s no issue today in United States politics that members of the left and right can agree on except this.
It’s unconscionable that the two candidates for president of the United States are refusing to addr...