Saudi Arabia government officials were part of a support network for Sept. 11 hijackers, said John F. Lehman, former Republican member of the 9/11 commission, reported The Guardian on May 12.
Lehman also called on the Obama administration to declassify the congressional report, known as the “28 pages” on the al-Qaeda attacks to the United States in 2001.
“There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government,” Lehman told The Guardian, suggesting that the commission may have made a mistake by not being transparent in its final report.
“Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia,” said Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration.
The 9/11 attacks were carried out by 19 terrorists, 15 of them were citizens from Saudi Arabia.
