Obama Visits Saudi Arabia Amid Tensions Over 911 Commission Report

FEATURING ALI AL-AHMED – President Obama is visiting the Gulf Arab kingdom of Saudi Arabia this week amid heightening tensions with the US. At the heart of the clash are 28 pages from the 9/11 Commission report that were withheld, and that some members of Congress believe, hold the key to Saudi Arabia’s never-before-revealed role in the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Saudi officials, angered by the suspicions, have threatened to sell off hundreds of billions of dollars of American assets if it is held culpable.

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Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs and earlier this year he wrote the New York Times Op-ed, “Saudi Arabia Is a Burden, Not a Friend to the U.S.”