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A 4,000-page court filing on Feb. 3 by lawyers for the 9/11 families, is putting a renewed spotlight on the role of Saudi Arabia in sponsoring the 9/11 attacks, and is increasing the pressure for release of the censored 28 pages from the Congressional Joint Inquiry.

Starting Tuesday evening, coverage of the explosive filings spread from the New York Times and CNN through the news media internationally and domestically. Importantly, the filings contained affidavits from two former 9/11 Commissioners, and from former Senate Intelligence Commission chairman Bob Graham, debunking Saudi claims that they were exonerated by the 9/11 Commission, and with 9/11 Commission member John Lehman calling for release of the 28 pages.

Watch the January 7 Capitol Hill Press Conference with Bob Graham

In 2013-14, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia & Herzegovina (SHC), were reinstated as defendants by actions of the U.S. Appeals Court in New York and the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Kingdom and the SHC are now desperately trying to get themselves dismissed again. A blockbuster pleading filed last September, states that the success of the 9/11 attacks “was made possible by the lavish sponsorship al Qaeda received from its material sponsors, including the Kingdom and SHC, over more than a decade leading up to September 11, 2001.” It not only contains detailed evidence of how Saudi-sponsored “charities” financed Al-Qaeda in the years leading up the 9/11 attacks, but it also describes — in detail — how Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz al Saud (now King Salman), was put in charge of the SHC and how he personally directed the arming and financing of al-Qaeda during the 1990s.

One of the exhibits attached to Monday’s filing, is a copy of the “Matrix of Threat Indicators” used by the U.S. military at Guantanamo. According to an affidavit by attorney Sean Carter, one of the lawyers for the 9/11 families, The Matrix of Threat Indicators identifies the ‘Saudi High Commission for Relief’ as one of the organizations within a list of ‘terrorist and terrorist support entities’ and indicates that ‘through associations with these groups and organizations, a detainee may have provided support to al-Qaeda or the Taliban, or engaged in hostilities against U.S. or Coalition forces. A number of other exhibits also deal with the role of the Salman-run SHC in financing and arming Al-Qaeda.

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Leading the news coverage of Monday’s filing, is the more than one hundred pages of sworn testimony by would-be hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui, describing how wealthy Saudis and members of the Saudi royal family provided financial support to him and other terrorists in the late 1990s. Although Moussaoui was declared mentally-ill by his own lawyers in his 2006 trial in Alexandria, Va., and his public behavior was wild and erratic, nonetheless 9/11 families’ attorney Sean Carter told the New York Times that his impression during the taking of Moussaoui’s deposition was that Moussaoui “was of completely sound mind — focused and thoughtful.”

Among those named by Moussaoui in his deposition were former Saudi intelligence head Prince Turki bin-Faisal and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. who has previously been identified as providing support to the San Diego hijackers, and whom EIR put in the center of the British-Saudi Al Yamamah terrorist-funding slush fund.

See: EIR‘s Bust the London/Riyadh Global Terror Axis

Whatever the ultimate value of Moussaoui’s testimony turns out to be, the furor surrounding it is shining a bright light on the already-established, highly-credible mountains of evidence of Saudi sponsorship of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and is giving added momentum to the demands for release of the 28 pages.

The Russian media has clearly picked up on Lyndon and Helga LaRouche’s warnings about the danger of thermonuclear war, coming from the collapse of the British imperial system. In addition to the TASS interview with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, conducted in Copenhagen last week and circulated among TASS subscribers, the Russian website InoSMI, which translates critical articles from the world media, for the first time published an editorial from the LaRouchePAC website. The editorial from Jan. 20 was headlined “Warnings of US War Versus Russia.”

In addition to direct LaRouche coverage, the Russian media has been regularly publishing interviews with Academician Sergei Glazyev, adviser to President Putin on Eurasian integration, who has picked up on the same theme of the links between the imminent threat of global showdown and the disintegration of the Western financial system. While Glazyev characterizes the war danger as coming from the United States primarily (ignoring the crucial British imperial factor), his essential point about the breakdown of the Western empire system and the drive for war is very much to the point.

In one February 3rd interview, translated on the website therussophile.org, Glazyev linked the war drive to “the upcoming collapse of America-central financial system in crisis,” warning

“Launching a world war is necesary for the Americans in order to preserve their hegemony in the world through strengthening control over Europe by imposing the Trans-Atlantic free trade agreement; establishing control over Russia and Middle East, thus expanding their competitive advantage in the battle for leadership with the Asian countries.”

Glazyev noted that

Former Navy Secretary John Lehman.

Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, who also served on the 9/11 Commission, is calling for the release of the censored 28 pages of the Congressional Joint Inquiry, joining former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey (also a 9/11 Commissioner) and former Senator Bob Graham, who co-chaired the Joint Inquiry. All three have just submitted affidavits in support of the 9/11 families in their lawsuit against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, pending in Federal Court in New York — which the Saudis are trying again to have dismissed.

Lehman is adamant that the 9/11 Commission did not exonerate Saudi Arabia from culpability for the 9/11 attacks, or of financing Al Qaeda in the years leading up to the 9/11 attacks — as claimed repeatedly by Saudi officials and their backers. Lehman says that he was, and still remains, deeply troubled by the evidence the 9/11 Commission developed concerning the support given to two future hijackers in San Diego by Saudi citizen Omar al-Bayoumi, and also by an official of the Islamic Affairs Department of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles. He notes that the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs is run by Wahabi imams, who have fueled the rise of jihadism and whose teaching provides the ideological basis of Al-Qaeda, ISIL, etc. All of this warrants further examination, Lehman asserts, adding that he read the 28 pages while a member of the 9/11 Commission and that there is nothing in them harmful to national security.

“To the contrary,” Lehman states,

Therefore, says Lehman, he fully supports the 9/11 families in their efforts to obtain full disclosure of the records of both the Congressional Inquiry and the 9/11 Commission.

In his book The Commission, author Philip Shenon quoted Lehman on his inability to get any information out of the White House about the Saudis.

“They were refusing to declassify anything having to do with Saudi Arabia,” Lehman said. “Anything having to do with the Saudis… it had this very special sensitivity.”

Bob Graham’s affidavit filed Monday includes his statements made to the same court in 2012, that he is convinced that there is a “direct line” between some of the 9/11 terrorists and the government of Saudi Arabia, and that he believes that al-Bayoumi was operating under the direction of the Saudi government and the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, and was in fact an agent of the Saudi government. Graham says this evidence has never been fully explored and pursued.

Graham adds the Sarasota, Florida, story to his previous statements, pointing out that three of the 9/11 hijackers were linked to the al-Hijji family, who abruptly fled from the U.S. shortly before the Sept. 11 attacks. Also new, are Graham’s charges about the role of Saudi “charities” in providing financial support to Al-Qaeda. The 9/11 attacks could not have been planned and executed without a support infrastructure, he says, adding:

“I applaud the 9/11 Plaintiffs for their efforts to use the civil justice system to enlighten the American public concerning those important issues.”

The Bob Kerrey affidavit, the same as he submitted to the court in 2012, states emphatically that the claims by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia & Herzegovina, that the 9/11 Commission exonerated them, are “fundamentally inaccurate and misleading.” Those claims by the Saudis are one of the principal grounds on which they are attempting, once again, to get the 9/11 families’ case against them, thrown out of court.

The war provocations surrounding the Ukraine are reaching a new threshold in the immediate days ahead, with Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Kiev today, followed by Poroshenko and Kerry both attending the Munich Security Conference starting on Friday. The Atlantic Council/Brookings call for arming the Ukrainian military for confrontation with Russia was intended to shape the environment in Munich and build the fevered pitch for war.

Likewise, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken a “take no prisoners” hard line on the Greek demands for a European debt conference on the model of the 1953 London conference, rejecting any such conference and rejecting any idea of a “haircut” for Greece. The European Central Bank has boycotted Greek sovereign debt, creating a similar showdown around today’s meeting of euro finance ministers and the Feb. 12 meeting of the 28 European heads of state. Merkel has openly announced that she has been lining up France’s Hollande and Italy’s Renzi to back up Germany’s confrontational stance.

None of these desperate measures will work, but the prospect for chaos and war as the consequence of these insane maneuvers can only be defeated by attacking the root cause with radical solutions. The root of the crisis is the British Empire system of oligarchical finance that has reached a point of irreversible bankruptcy. To put that system—and loyal assets like U.S. President Barack Obama—out of business, the forces must be marshaled to put the entire British system through an orderly bankruptcy. That means a Glass-Steagall full separation of commercial and investment banking activities, as was carried out by FDR in the USA in 1933. That means an orderly cancellation of the unpayable gambling debts that have been imposed on nations like Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Ireland, over the past decades of looting. The concept of a London debt conference of 1953, along with a full bank separation, lays the basis for restoring an American System Hamiltonian credit system in the trans-Atlantic region.

Such action, which is now on the table, would align Europe and the United States with the BRICS nations and the growing circle of allied states, typified by Egypt and Argentina. Nothing short of this top-down restructuring can prevent the slide into economic chaos and/or thermonuclear war.

So long as Obama remains in the presidency, under British control, the momentum for war in the short term is unstoppable. No one in their right mind can any longer claim ignorance of Obama’s crimes, all carried out on orders from the British. This is the empire system that must be brought down in an orderly fashion—before it crashes of its own bankruptcy, bringing everyone else down with it.

So long as the British factor remains in power at the Obama White House, the United States will maintain the drive for war, targeting Russia and China. It is transparently obvious that all of the BRICS countries are under attack because of the threat they pose to the empire system.

In Argentina, the assault against Cristina Fernandez continued unabated, even as she was completing a series of historic economic treaty agreements with China, during her visit this week with Xi Jinping. Something nasty exists in Argentina, which has a distinct British-Israeli odor, and has been entrenched since the period of the junta. This poses a danger to Cristina and Argentina, so long as it remains intact. EIR counterintelligence specialists are preparing a dossier on the filthy networks behind the assault on Argentina for publication soon.

The same attack is underway against Egypt, as President al-Sisi prepares for the visit next week by Russian President Putin. The US State Department last week was caught hosting a delegation of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood officials who have constituted an Egyptian Revolutionary Council to overthrow al-Sisi. The very day that the MBs were at Foggy Bottom, low-intensity terrorist attacks were launched in Egypt.

The BRICS nations have launched a new paradigm of creative, cooperative relations among sovereign nations, in pursuit of the common aims of mankind. These efforts embody the principle of what it means to be a true, creative human being, participating in the betterment of mankind as a whole, today and in the future. They are typified by the Chinese lunar program, the plans for the Kra Canal, the building of the New Suez Canal and the Nicaragua Canal, the ambitious expansion of nuclear power, the Transaqua water management plan for Africa—all elements of the World Landbridge program produced recently by EIR.

Such a view of mankind, and such a set of objectives, fly in the face of the system of empire. We have reached a moment where the British system and the BRICS system cannot co-exist. By removing the British grip on power in the United States, which is largely through Wall Street and Obama, the United States can resume its rightful place among the mature nations of this planet. It is an obligation to Founders like Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and, especially, Alexander Hamilton, that must be fulfilled—now.