As US marks 25 years of 9/11, victims' kin hit out at Saudi, former presidents

Relatives of those killed in the 9/11 attacks on Friday called out Saudi Arabia for alleged complicity in the carnage - and chided past US presidents in attendance at a remembrance ceremony for failing to call Riyadh to account.The Sept 11, 2001, attacks were carried out by mostly Saudi hijackers and orchestrated by mastermind Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi who founded al-Qaida. Washington maintains strong military and diplomatic ties with the kingdom.The annual reading of the names of the victims at the National 9/11 Memorial in New York is a sombre ceremony and is usually entirely apolitical, making the comments especially jarring. "You are missed more with each year that passes, but how can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder?" Tom Strada's widow Terry, the national chair of 9/11 Families United, said in her remarks."Yes, we finally made it into a court and have proved that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia fomented a rancid culture of anti-American terrorism around the globe, and then sent its agents to support the radical Islamist hijackers so they could attack you and all of our loved ones," she said, to applause from t...