September 11 betrayal
Kin slam PGA-LIV Golf merger
The 9/11 families group suing the Saudis over alleged links to the terror attacks is blasting the PGA’s merger with LIV Golf calling it an epic betrayal.
They are specifically calling out PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan for flip-flopping.
“PGA Tour leaders should be ashamed of their hypocrisy and greed,” said 9/11 Families United Chair Terry Strada, whose husband Tom died in the World Trade Center’s North Tower.
“Our entire 9/11 community has been betrayed by Commissioner Monahan and the PGA as it appears their concern for our loved ones was merely window-dressing in their quest for money — it was never to honor the great game of golf,” she added.
Her stinging pushback comes just hours after the PGA and LIV Golf announced a blockbuster marriage and the end of lawsuits. The Associated Press reports linking the two will create a powerful commercial entity.
The governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund joins the PGA Tour board of directors and leads the new business venture as chairman, though the PGA Tour will have a majority stake, the AP added.
The 9/11 Families United group and others who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks have dogged LIV Golf for its ties to the Saudis in what appears to have fallen on deaf ears.
“Our entire 9/11 community has been betrayed,” Strada added in a statement shared with the Herald.
Strada has also sent a letter to the Justice Department requesting an investigation into Saudi Arabian foreign agents for alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Politico is reporting.
As the Herald has reported, no public trial over Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has ever been held — though many fought for one — and the “last best hope” is playing out in federal court in Manhattan.
The 9/11 families want to expose how 19 al-Qaeda hijackers — 15 of them Saudi nationals — crashed four jets, killing nearly 3,000 in one day, and got financial help. They are suing Saudi Arabia to force some type of admission.
declassified FBI documents state “Omar Albayoumi was paid a monthly stipend as a cooptee of the Saudi General Intelligence Presidency.” That redacted FBI “electronic communication” shared with the Herald goes on to state the support for that foreign agent came “via then Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan Alsuad.”
Prince Bandar was Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. from 1983 to 2005.
Omar Albayoumi was a California-based Saudi spy, declassified FBI documents state, according to multiple reports. The 9/11 Commission never knew this.
It is alleged Albayoumi helped 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khalid Al-Mihdhar, who were the first to arrive in the U.S. when they landed in Los Angeles in January 2000. That Southern California terror cell was exposed years later in an FBI report titled “PENTBOMB.”
Those first two hijackers would move on to San Diego where they attempted to train as pilots — not needing to know how to take off or land — and then ultimately, with a lot of help, boarded Flight 77, slamming it into the Pentagon on 9/11 killing 64 people on the plane and 125 in the Pentagon.
The three other hijacked jets — Flight 11 and Flight 175 out of Logan International Airport in Boston and Flight 93 out of Newark International Airport — slammed into the Twin Towers and a field in Shanksville, Pa., respectively, on 9/11 in the first act of mass murder.