WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Over 1,200 relatives of those killed or injured in the Sept. 11 hijackings called Wednesday for the declassification of 28 pages of a report into the attacks.
"The 28 pages include vital information about terrorist support organizations and their links to individuals or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia and possibly other countries," reads a letter sent by the relatives to President Bush.
The group's leader, William Doyle, who lost his son Joey, a firefighter, in the twin towers, told United Press International the letter was just the first step in a campaign. "We are going to the office of every senator, every congressman," he said. "It's election season."
The 28 pages were redacted, or censored, along with dozens of others from the final report of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of Sept. 11. The report was finished in December 2002, but a redacted, unclassified version was not made available until June 2003.
The letter says the information in the pages "identifies banks, charities, corporations and individuals who were financing terrorism then, and probably even now.
"Who are we protecting?" they demanded
In his recent book, "Intelligence Matters," outgoing Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., wrote of the 28 pages, "95 percent of that material was safe for public consumption. ... Those pages were being kept secret for reasons other than national security."
