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  1. VATICAN Pope Francis urges solidarity against populism, in speech to EU leaders

    On the eve of celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome in the Italian capital, Pope Francis said that solidarity among men and countries is “the most effective antidote to modern forms of populism“, as he spoke to 27 European leaders at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, Friday.

  2. Philippines: Troops rescue captive from Abu Sayyaf militants (asiancorrespondent, Mar 25, 2017)
    https://asiancorrespondent.com/2017/03/philippines-troops-rescue-captive-abu-sayyaf-militants/#Y2ChVQIqE8wxvHRQ.97

    “PHILIPPINE soldiers on Saturday rescued one of two Filipino cargo ship crewmen taken captive just two days ago by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants, a security official said.

    The troops recovered Aurelio Agacac, the ship captain, in the remote village of Basakan in the southern Philippine province of Basilan, said Colonel Juvymax Uy, commander of the military’s 104th Brigade and Joint Task Force Basilan.

    The kidnappers took Agacac and his companion Laurencio Tiro captive from a cargo ship off Basilan on Thursday, only hours after soldiers rescued two Malaysians held for about eight months on a southern island…”

  3. Teenager shot in the head by Bahraini police dies (alaraby, Mar 25, 2017)
    https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/3/25/teenager-shot-in-the-head-by-bahraini-police-dies

    “An 18-year-old Bahraini died on Friday, nearly two months after he was shot in the head near a top opposition cleric’s home, Amnesty International said.

    Mustafa Hamdan, who was shot on January 26 near the home of Sheikh Isa Qassim, died of cardiac arrest, Amnesty’s Bahrain researcher Ariel Plotkin told AFP.

    Plotkin said Hamdan had been brain dead as a result of the shooting.

    Witnesses said Hamdan was shot in the head during a police raid on Qassim’s home in a suburb of the capital Manama, where protesters had been staging sit-ins after the cleric’s citizenship was revoked last year…”

  4. To avoid another Trump, register Conservative, Canadian Muslims urged (alaraby, Mar 25, 2017)
    https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2017/3/25/to-avoid-another-trump-register-conservative-canadian-muslims-urged

    “What’s the best way to avoid a Trump-like candidate in the next Canadian federal election?

    Register as a Conservative voter. That’s the message behind a quiet digital movement sweeping through the country right now to stem what organisers say is the “American-style politics currently dominating” the Conservative leadership race.

    It’s also a message being echoed by many Muslims – including religious leaders.

    “Call to action for the Muslim community!” Shaykh Omar Subedar posted on his Facebook feed on March 21st. “If you don’t want Trump wannabes like Kelly Leitch potentially becoming the Prime Minister of our great country, you need to ACT NOW!”

    The plan, he adds, is “to support a genuine candidate that lives and promotes ethics and values all Canadians can be proud of”.

    The Canadian-born Islamic scholar from Brampton, Ontario posted a screenshot of his membership confirmation in support of Conservative candidate Michael Chong.

    “I’m a [paying] member now and am making my entire family become members. You do the same for the safety of our community and country,” he said.

    Shaykh Omar is one of hundreds of Canadians actively encouraging voters to become members of the Conservative Party – and vote in the upcoming leadership election in May…”

  5. One in five Arab Mediterranean youths hopes to emigrate (alaraby, Mar 25, 2017)
    https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/society/2017/3/25/one-in-five-arab-mediterranean-youths-hopes-to-emigrate

    “One in five youths in several North African countries and Lebanon would like to emigrate in search of better prospects, including those with university degrees, according to a survey conducted for the European Commission.

    The survey of 10,000 people in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia found a deep sense of “frustration and social exclusion”, according to Elena Sanchez-Montijano at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), who coordinated the study.

    In Tunisia, 53 percent of youths said they wanted to emigrate, according to the report released on Thursday, six years after the “Arab Spring” revolts that swept the region starting in Tunisia in late 2010.

    “The main cause that is pushing these young people to want to leave is, once again, economics: find a decent job and a better standard of living,” according to a summary of the “Sahwa” project’s report, from the Arabic word for “Awakening”.

    “The indifference to politics is worrisome – nearly 60 percent of young people eligible to vote didn’t do so in the most recent elections,” Sanchez-Montijano said.

    “But for them, that’s not the main problem, but rather the feeling that they’re unable to become an adult,” she added.

    “They see that they are not going to become self-sufficient quickly – find a job, leave their parents’ house, get married.”

    For 28 percent of respondents, a low standard of living was the biggest problem, followed by the economic situation (22 percent), jobs (12 percent) and education (10 percent).

    Gloomy prospects

    In Algeria, about 25 percent of youths want to leave, said Nacer-Eddine Hammouda, of the CREAD economic research centre in Algiers.

    “And significantly, getting into university increases the desire to emigrate,” said Hammouda, who carried out the survey in Algeria.

    For young Tunisians, the ouster of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the country’s first free elections in 2011 gave many young people hope that they would break into the public and political realms.

    “Unfortunately, it has been the opposite,” said Fadhila Najah, who oversaw the country’s survey. “More and more they are being governed by very old people.”

    Sanchez-Montijano also said that when asked questions about self-identity, most youths claimed their nationality first — Moroccan or Lebanese, for example — and their religion second.

    About 18 percent of respondents said they went to pray each day, and when asked about how they spent their free time, the most common response was “Go out with friends”, she said, followed by “Go to the mosque”.

    In terms of schooling, the broad opinion was that education systems were “rigid, too theoretical and out of sync with the job market”.

    But for Hammouda, there was cause for optimism in Algeria: “Women are encouraging their daughters much more to pursue their studies”, with a third of young women reaching university, compared with just a quarter of young men.”

  6. Russia trying to gain influence in Libya: US general (alaraby, Mar 25, 2017)
    https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/3/25/russia-trying-to-gain-influence-in-libya-us-general

    “Russia is trying to expand its influence in Libya through a combination of military means and oil and weapons sales, a top US general said Friday.

    General Thomas Tom Waldhauser, who heads the US military’s Africa Command, said Russia is “on the ground” in the border region between Egypt and Libya.

    “They are trying to influence the action, we watch what they do with great concern,” Waldhauser told Pentagon reporters…”

  7. British Muslim leader says May MUST crack down on prison radicalisation to beat terror (express, Mar 25, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/783721/Khalid-Masood-Prison-Radicalised-Theresa-May-jihadi-Ahmadiyya-Muslim-Association

    “THE GOVERNMENT must do more to stop people becoming radicalised in prisons to stem the tide of terror, a leading Muslim representative has claimed.

    Security officials are currently working to find out if Khalid Masood was radicalised during the time he spent in prison for slashing the face of a pub landlord.

    Muslim converts are four times more likely to commit acts of terrorism and related offences than people born into the religion, a study by the Henry Jackson society claims.

    And experts are concerned by the fast pace of prison radicalisation, with many forming Islamist gangs while behind bars.

    Raffia Hayat of the Ahmadiyya Muslim association has warned of attempts by jailed extremists to recruit violent criminals into radical groups so they can carry out attacks on the public once released.

    Mr Hayat added: “It is worrying and this is something the Government should take seriously and find ways to not allow that to happen in our prisons in the UK.”…”

  8. SAUDI EMBASSY CONFIRMS UK ATTACKER HAD BEEN IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP, Mar 25, 2017)
    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_ATTACK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-25-03-33-13

    “The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in London says that the Westminster attacker was in the country three times and taught English there.

    A statement released late Friday says Khalid Masood taught English in Saudi Arabia from November 2005 to November 2006 and again from April 2008 to April 2009.

    The embassy says he had a work visa. It says he returned for six days in March 2015.

    The embassy says he wasn’t tracked by Saudi security services and didn’t have a criminal record there…”

  9. ‘Another summer of HELL’ Violent traffickers smuggling migrants into Britain EXPOSED (express, Mar 25, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/783668/Violent-traffickers-smuggling-migrants-Britain

    “THE true scale and violence of the people smuggling trade from France to the UK is exposed today in a Daily Express investigation.

    “To witness the violence was horrifying but it gives me an insight into what our drivers are having to face every day.”

    The past two summers have seen British truckers and tourists face increasing levels of violence and intimidation on roads leading to the Calais ferry port and Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles with gangs using felled trees, burning blockades and petrol bombs to stop traffic.

    French officials now fear another summer of chaos and estimate migrants are returning to the area at a rate of more than 100 a week. There are thought to be at least six secret camps in the NordPas-de-Calais region.

    Belgian transport chief Eric Mattheeuws, who also witnessed the violence in Steenvoorde, said: “I have now seen with my own eyes how migrants are getting more and more desperate and more and more violent.”

    Ukip spokeswoman Jane Collins said: “I fear another summer of hell for businesses and tourists.” The Home Office said: “The French government is alive to the threat of new camps appearing in northern France and both countries are clear we must continue to fight against the callous criminals that coordinate people-smuggling.

    “We continue to work with the French authorities. This includes not only physical security measures but also wider work to tackle criminal gangs involved in trafficking.”…”

  10. London terror attack: ‘Grinning’ suspect held in new police swoops /express, Mar 25, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/783674/london-terror-attack-grinning-suspect-held-police-raids

    “A SMIRKING terror suspect with links to Saudi Arabia was held by police amid nationwide swoops on possible accomplices of Westminster terrorist Khalid Masood.

    The man, said to be a father-of-three, shocked neighbours by grinning as he was led away after an armed raid on his £240,000 semi-detached home.

    He was among 11 people arrested during raids on 20 properties in the wake of the terror attack which killed four and injured 50 in London.

    The suspect seemed unconcerned by the raid on his Birmingham home, which saw an armed police officer wearing a balaclava and helmet train an assault rifle on the windows…”

  11. 12 Pieces Of Proof: The MSM Knew Obama Spied On Trump and LIED To Cover It Up:

    “Way back in January, Heat Street, The Guardian, The BBC, and McClatchy all confirmed that he Obama administration sought and/or received surveillance warrants aimed at Team Trump.

    Way back in January, The New York Times reported that the Obama White House was looking at wiretap intelligence related to Trump.

    Way back in February, The Washington Post, CNN, the Associated Press, NBC News, CBS News, and ABC News all gleefully reported on private telephone calls that were surveilled by the Obama administration and then illegally made public to the media.”

    http://www.dailywire.com/news/14756/12-pieces-proof-msm-knew-obama-spied-trump-and-john-nolte#

  12. North Korea ready to conduct nuclear test, US officials say

    By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent

    Washington (CNN)Specific intelligence indicators now show that North Korea is ready for its sixth underground nuclear test at any time, two US officials told CNN on Friday.
    Recent satellite imagery indicates a potentially significant change at the Punggye-ri test site, the officials said. For weeks, satellites had observed extensive activity on the surface, including vehicles, personnel and equipment, as well as two tunnel entrances being dug out.
    But the most recent imagery shows that activity has now stopped. That is a similar change in the pattern of activity just before previous tests, indicating all final preparations are now complete, officials said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/24/us/north-korea-nuclear-test/

  13. “Singaporean teenage blogger Amos Yee has been granted asylum in the United States, his lawyer said Saturday.

    The 18-year-old has been held in a detention facility in Chicago since December 16, after border control officers stopped him from entering the country upon finding out about his plans to seek asylum.

    “On March 24, 2017, the Honorable Immigration Judge Samuel B. Cole granted Amos Yee’s asylum application,” Sandra Grossman, Yee’s pro-bono lawyer in the US, said in a statement.

    “Judge Cole concluded that the Singapore government persecuted Yee on account of his political opinion, and that Yee is deserving of asylum as a matter of discretion.”

    http://m.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2082071/singaporean-teenage-blogger-amos-yee-granted-asylum-us

  14. Punting on the AHCA vote: The 2017 Declaration of Independence
    By J.E. Dyer March 24, 2017

    Did you hear it today? Did you hear the sound of independence being declared – independence from the strictures of old-consensus politics?

    Because that’s what I heard, when the news came through that Trump and Ryan had accepted they would not get the vote they wanted on the “Ryancare” bill, and decided not to bring it to the floor.

    I was glad to see Howard Portnoy’s earlier post on this, and I certainly agree with him. Pulling the bill before a vote was the right thing to do.

    I actually think, in fact, that they – well, Trump, at least – have done more than play it smart. They may not fully realize it yet. But I think a lot of the people do.

    With a major rocket boost from the Freedom Caucus, they’ve broken the spell of old-consensus politics. They’ve broken it by not being afraid to act contrary to what old-consensus politics would dictate.

    They’ve pulled the vote, in the teeth of the old-consensus promise: that the media and the Democrats will laugh at them and proclaim that they’ve lost. The promise of the old consensus is that they will be politically damaged after this. Trump won’t be able to get things done. Republicans will be a laughingstock, despised by voters and doomed in 2018.

    And sure, the outlets controlled by the mainstream media will try to enforce these conditions, to the extent they’re able.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/03/24/punting-ahca-vote-2017-declaration-independence/

  15. Was John Podesta target of Russian ‘influence campaign’?
    By LU Staff March 24, 2017

    John Podesta, national chairman of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, may have opened himself up to a Russian “influence campaign” designed to temper his views of the Kremlin, The Daily Caller News Foundation (TheDCNF) Investigative Group has learned.

    Influence campaigns are conducted by many governments — including the United States — with the aim of influencing decision makers in other countries to realign their geopolitical worldviews more closely with those of the influencing country.

    Some national security experts interviewed by TheDCNF wonder if Podesta may still be a target of Russian influence. They trace the campaign back to his company board membership, in which one-third of the board were top Russian businessmen with direct ties to the Kremlin.

    The last time Podesta talked negatively about Russia was Dec. 18, 2016, when he charged in an NBC “Meet the Press” interview the 2016 election was “distorted by the Russian intervention.”

    The former Clinton national campaign chairman has since been silent, even as other former top Clinton aides, such as Robby Mook, Brian Fallon, and Jim Margolis have repeatedly aimed high-decibel rhetoric at President Donald Trump about Russian “meddling” in the 2016 presidential race.

    Clinton campaign manager Mook, for example, hit the airwaves as recently as Thursday in an MSNBC appearance with Craig Melvin about Russia’s alleged meddling in the election.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/03/24/john-podesta-target-russian-influence-campaign/

  16. Police clash with anti-Christian mob in southern Egypt (abcnews, Mar 25, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-clash-anti-christian-mob-southern-egypt-46369717?cid=clicksource_76_null_articleroll_hed

    “Police have used tear gas to disperse an angry mob of Muslims approaching Christian homes in southern Egypt.

    The Friday clashes injured four policemen and seven of the Muslim villagers. Police have made eight arrests.

    The trouble in the Moheidat district south of the ancient city of Luxor began when Muslim villagers suspected that a Christian teenager who allegedly converted to Islam was being held captive by her family as punishment. Her relatives deny the charge.

    Similar incidents had in the past ignited deadly sectarian violence or caused long-term damage to relations between Muslims and Christians, who account for about 10 percent of Egypt’s 92 million people.

    Egypt’s Christians complain of discrimination by authorities, especially in rural areas where the central government’s authority is weak and radical Muslims are powerful.”

  17. Atlanta family battling state over right to name daughter Allah

    Waterloo Region Record
    By Ernie Suggs
    ATLANTA — The toddler daughter of Elizabeth Handy and Bilal Walk has everything you would expect: a sweet smile, curious nature and finicky tastes.

    But, in the eyes of the state of Georgia, the 22-month-old child has no name.

    According to Handy and Walk, the Georgia Department of Public Health refused to issue the infant a birth certificate with the last name the couple chose for their daughter: Allah.

    The ACLU of Georgia has filed suit on behalf of the couple, who say they can’t get a Social Security number for their daughter because they don’t have a birth certificate. They also anticipate problems with access to health care, schools and travel. Already, they said, they had to cancel a trip to Mexico.

    “We have to make sure that the state isn’t overstepping their boundaries,” Walk said. “It is just plainly unfair and a violation of our rights.”

    State officials, however, said the child’s name — ZalyKha Graceful Lorraina Allah — does not fit the naming conventions set up by state law. They say that ZalyKha’s last name should either be Handy, Walk or a combination of the two.

    The lawsuit names Brenda Fitzgerald, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, and Donna L. Moore, the state registrar and director of the Office of Vital Records.

    In a series of letters written by lawyers representing the Department of Public Health, officials said that based on Georgia code, the state “requires that a baby’s surname be either that of the father of the mother for purposes of the initial birth record.”

    General counsel Sidney Barrett wrote that, once the birth record is created, ZalyKha’s surname can be changed through a petition to superior court.

    But ACLU of Georgia Executive Director Andrea Young said the state’s decision is an example of government overreach and a violation of the First and 14th amendments. In addition, Handy and Walk have a three-year-old son who was given a birth certificate for his name, Masterful Allah, with no problem.

    Michael Baumrind, another attorney representing the family, said while it is true that the family is trying to introduce a third surname, it is irrelevant.

    “There are numbers of parents who have selected a name for their children,” Baumrind said. “The state has no business determining if a name is satisfactory. The parents get to decide the name of the child. Not the state. It is an easy case.”

    With the state’s decision, lawyers for the couple say they have not been able to receive medical coverage under Medicaid and are prevented from obtaining food stamps through the SNAP program.

    Carlton F.W. Larson, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, has written extensively about parental rights to name their children.

    There is no court decision that the couple could point to that would restrict Georgia from rejecting their case (although in 2014, a Tennessee judge was fired for refusing to allow a family to name their son Messiah), but Larson said the state is clearly infringing on their rights to freedom of speech and equal protection.

    “Naming your child is an expressive action,” Larson said. “And the idea that you get to name your child, and not the state, is a fundamental right. The state would need to have a compelling reason for rejecting a name, and I don’t see it. I would hope that (Handy and Walk) would win this case.”

    Handy and Walk have been dealing with the state on the issue for at least two years.

    ZalyKha was born May 25, 2015. They said they gave her the name because it was “noble,” and it has nothing to do with religion. Allah is the name for God, the Supreme Being, in the Arabic language.

    “Simply put, we have a personal understanding that we exercise in regards to the names,” Walk said. “It is nothing that we want to go into detail about, because it is not important. What is important is the language of the statute and our rights as parents.”

    Handy said the couple sought out the ACLU after growing frustrated with the state. But there is another urgency.

    She is six months pregnant.

    “We don’t want to go through that process again,” Handy said. “We are still in the process of coming up with a name, and we don’t even know if it will be a girl or a boy. But the child will definitely have a noble title. Something to live up to.”

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    http://www.therecord.com/news-story/7208120-atlanta-family-battling-state-over-right-to-name-daughter-allah/

  18. Sylhet blasts kill four amid Bangladesh militant raid (BBC, Mar 25, 2017)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39394487

    “Four people, including a police officer and one apparent attacker, have been killed in twin bombings in north-eastern Bangladesh, officials say.

    The blasts in Sylhet occurred near an apartment building where commandoes have been trying to flush out a group of suspected Islamist militants.

    Earlier many civilians were evacuated from the block of flats. The suspects have refused to surrender.

    Dozens of people were injured in the twin explosions on Saturday.

    The blasts hit a large crowd which had gathered nearby as troops continued to exchange gunfire with the militants.

    The first explosive device was brought by two men on a motorbike and the second was left in a bag of vegetables, police say.

    So-called Islamic State (IS) claimed on messaging app Telegram that it was behind one of the blasts.

    The suspected extremists are hiding out in a five-storey building, from which 78 civilians have been evacuated.

    They keep detonating explosives strewn all around the building, the army says….”

  19. Turkey summons Swiss envoy over rally it says supported terrorism (reuters, Mar 25, 2017)
    http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN16W0QL

    “Turkey’s foreign ministry summoned Switzerland’s charge d’affairs in Ankara on Saturday to complain about a protest in Bern that it said supported terrorism and included a poster calling for the assassination of President Tayyip Erdogan.

    Earlier on Saturday several thousand people including Kurdish protesters joined a rally in the Swiss capital calling for a ‘No’ vote in Turkey’s April 16 referendum that could give sweeping powers to Erdogan under a constitutional overhaul.

    The referendum issue has already badly strained relations between Turkey and several European countries, including Germany, after they banned Turkish ministers from campaigning on their territory for a ‘Yes’ vote in the referendum…”

  20. Pro-Houthi court sentences Yemen president to death for treason (reuters, Mar 25, 2017)
    http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-yemen-security-court-idUKKBN16W0UA

    “A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group’s enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials in his government to death for “high treason” on Saturday.

    The decision by a court in the capital Sanaa, reported by the state news agency Saba, which is run by the Houthis, may render more remote the resumption of stalled peace talks to end the conflict which has killed at least 10,000 people.

    Saudi Arabia and a mostly Gulf Arab military coalition have launched thousands of air strikes and a small number of ground troops to try to dislodge the Houthis and restore Hadi to power.

    The Houthis, allied to Saudi Arabia’s arch-enemy Iran, have progressively lost territory to the offensive but maintain control over the capital and most population centres.

    Several rounds of peace talks have ended in failure and the Houthis insist Hadi is illegitimate and must stand down, a position rejected by his government and the United Nations.

    Saba quoted the Sanaa criminal court as having convicted Hadi of “incitement and assistance to the aggressor state of Saudi Arabia and its allies.”…”

  21. 9/11 Trial: ‘20th Hijacker’ Offers to Testify About Saudi Link to 9/11 Attacks

    A convicted jihadist serving a life sentence in federal prison as the “20th hijacker” in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. homeland has reportedly offered to testify during the 9/11 trial to “expose the Saudi Royal double game with” the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

    His offer comes as hundreds of families have filed a lawsuit that, unlike others, contains a detailed account of Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks.

    “I am willing to fully testify on the 9/11 case, even if I was charge on the death penalty case as it incriminate me,” Zacarias Moussaoui, self-identified as “Slave of Allah,” said in broken English in a hand-written letter.

    “My take is he would like to be in the spotlight and is bored in solitary,” Edward MacMahon, the terrorist’s former defense attorney told the Miami Herald.

    In response to his allegations, the Saudi Embassy has labeled the French-born U.S. prisoner as a “deranged criminal.”

    Besides “Slave of Allah,” he also signs his filings as an “Enemy Combatant,” which he reportedly is not.

    Currently, the 48-year-old Moussaoui is serving life behind bars at the SuperMax prison in Florence, Colorado.

    The jihadist pleaded guilty in federal court to six 9/11 attacks-linked conspiracy charges in 2005.

    According to the Pentagon’s war court website, Moussaoui has written at least three times to Army Col. James L. Pohl handling the September 11 mass-murder case, which still has no trial date.

    Judge Pohl has not confirmed receiving the terrorist’s letter, noted the Herald.

    “One of his defense lawyers, Gerald Zerkin, described Moussaoui as ‘a compulsive letter writer’ who sent perhaps 300 letters to U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema, who handled his trial,” adds the Miami Herald.

    Moussaoui’s request for an opportunity to expose the Sunni Saudi kingdom’s ties to bin Laden comes as a new lawsuit has surfaced claiming the Saudis provided material support to al-Qaeda, a claim to which the jihadist is no stranger.

    The lawsuit claims the Saudi kingdom enabled al-Qaeda to kill the estimated 3,000 people on American soil on 9/11.

    New York Daily News reports:

    The Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit, filed Monday by more than 800 victims’ families, provides extensive accusations about the Gulf nation’s complicity — such as by bankrolling the attack.

    Saudi Arabia “actively supported al Qaeda in its final preparations for the September 11th attacks,” court papers contend.

    And the country did so “through a network of the kingdom’s officers, employees and/or agents who met with and aided the hijackers, providing them with money, cover, advice, contacts, transportation, assistance with language and U.S. culture, identification, access to pilot training and other material support and resources,” the suit charges.

    In the latest letter sent to the military judge presiding over the 9/11 attacks, dated January 29, 2016, the imprisoned jihadist offers to testify about the “real” mastermind behind the attacks.

    He then names “Saudi Prince Turki, Princess Haifa, and a man identified only as Omar,” the lightly redacted letter shows.

    The U.S. has identified Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), who is awaiting a death penalty tribunal as the mastermind of the September 11 plot.

    Moussaoui “is just one of several men described as the missing ‘20th hijacker’ in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field,” reports the Miami Herald.

    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/03/25/911-trial-20th-hijacker-offers-testify-saudi-link-911-attacks/