'No top Saudi link' found in attack
The White House has said previously classified papers concerning the 9/11 attacks released on Friday show there had been no official Saudi role.
Lawmakers and victims' families campaigned for years for their publication, alleging high-level Saudis were complicit in the attacks.
According to the declassified document, "while in the United States, some of the 9/11 hijackers were in contact with, and received support or assistance from, individuals who may be connected to the Saudi government".It included a possibility that money was sent from the Saudi Royal family to the hijackers, among other alleged links.
However, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the pages "don't shed any new light or change any of the conclusions about responsibility for the 9/11 attacks".
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who staged the 2001 attacks were Saudi nationals. Almost 3,000 people were killed when they deliberately flew planes they had seized into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
An independent panel completed the 9/11 Commission Report a year after the attacks. But several sections were withheld from the public for 13 years.
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