Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with an explosive article at the Atlantic that confirms suspicions many have

had about who was behind the 9-11 attacks. What is emerging with more to come, assuming the

federal trial in New York goes ahead, it's not the absurd conspiracy theories

from the tortured naval gazes

known as the 9-11 truthers,

but evidence provided by former national security officials

who have long suspected Saudi state involvement.

Joining us to discuss the new evidence

from intelligence sources at the trial brought by the families of the 9-11

victims is Daniel Benjamin, the president of the American Academy in Berlin, who served as a

counter-terrorism coordinator at the United States State Department from 2009 to 2012.

He is the co-author with Stephen Simon of a bombshell article at the Atlantic.

New 9-11 evidence points to deep Saudi complicity, which we will discuss.

The article reveals the inaction at the highest levels and bungling bio-intelligence services

that obscured the state involvement of

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Islamic Affairs, which was a result of the fact that the House of

Saud ruled but did not govern, and had a compact with the Wahhabi religious radicals who exported

petrodollah fuel jihadism and reactionary Islam around the

world and at home via the religious police who kept the Saudi population subjugated by a

fundamentalist repression that makes the handmaid's tale seem like a fairy tale. Then we'll investigate

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