The FBI has released a newly declassified 16-page document related to logistical support provided to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the September 11, 2001, attacks.
It strikes me that in the period after 9/11 (and even before) “terrorism” was largely discussed in the US as something foreign, something that comes from outside, and of course one of the important implications of Baudrillard’s argument is that it never truly comes from outside: it is generated by the system itself in the fantasies of its own destruction.
Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister, criticized US government for closing its eyes to the reality that the Saudi government played a major role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but instead the US attempted to punish Iran which is the prime enemy of terrorist groups.
Congress on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama's veto of legislation allowing relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, the first veto override of his presidency, just four months before it ends.
