A truck driving through Washington, D.C., on Tuesday bore three large signs with one message: “SAUDI GOV’T AGENTS HELPED MURDER NEARLY 3,000 AMERICANS.” The families of people who died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, hired the truck to mark the arrival of Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. The Saudi prince’s discussion with President Donald Trump included investment deals and fighter jets.
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The 9/11 families had another topic in mind.
“We needed to do something to call for accountability,” said Jerry Goldman, a partner at the Anderson Kill law firm in New York, which represents a lead plaintiff, as well as hundreds of families and thousands of people suing Saudi Arabia for its alleged involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
“The crown prince is in Washington,” Goldman told Straight Arrow News. “You want planes. We want justice. … I hope this issue is being addressed.”
‘Time for accountability’
Prince Mohammed was met with protests in Washington during his first visit in eight years. He arrived as Saudi Arabia is poised to stand trial for its alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
“We’ve been in litigation against Saudi Arabia for close to 23 years,” Goldman said. “Next September will mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the day when close to 3,000 people were murdered in New York, on a field in Pennsylvania and in the Pentagon literally across the river from the White House. Thousands more were injured and hundreds of thousands of people, lives and businesses were horribly impacted. It’s time for accountability and justice. That, to me, is what’s right. And that to me is what justice is all about.”
It was not on Trump’s agenda, however.
ABC news correspondent Mary Bruce pressed Trump about holding the prince accountable for the kingdom’s role in 9/11 and the 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. U.S. intelligence reports concluded that Prince Mohammed ordered Khashoggi’s killing.
Trump interrupted Bruce and asked her which publication she was with. When she said she was with ABC, the president responded: “Fake News. ABC fake news, one of the worst, one of the worst in the business.”
