9/11 cancer cases cloud ‘sickening’ PGA-LIV golf merger
The PGA's shocking marriage with Saudi-back LIV Golf is infuriating not only 9/11 loved ones but those hero police, firefighters, EMTs, Salvation Army volunteers and so many more who raced to Ground Zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack to help.
Victims of the 9/11 terror attacks are still dying — from cancer.
“We estimate 125,000 people are sick,” said Dan Hansen, a toxic exposure attorney. “How do you forget 9/11 when you get a call from your doctor saying you have prostate, testicular, or male breast cancer?”
That’s why the PGA’s shocking marriage with Saudi-backed LIV Golf is infuriating not only 9/11 loved ones but those hero police, firefighters, EMTs, Salvation Army volunteers and so many more who raced to Ground Zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack to help.
A Senate investigative subcommittee chaired by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is calling both the PGA and Liv Golf honchos before the committee on July 11, according to NBC News, to question them about the deal. The Justice Department is also looking into the merger over antitrust concerns, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Hansen said Friday the “PGA selling out and saying 9/11 is behind us” is “sickening.”
As the Herald has reported, many want to expose how 19 al-Qaeda hijackers — 15 of them Saudi nationals — crashed four jets, killing nearly 3,000 in one day, with alleged financial help linked to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Because of that, 9/11 kin are suing Saudi Arabia in a Manhattan court to force some admission.
Declassified FBI documents state “Omar Albayoumi was paid a monthly stipend as a cooptee of the Saudi General Intelligence Presidency.” That redacted FBI “electronic communication” shared with the Herald states the support for that foreign agent came “via then Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan Alsuad.”
Prince Bandar was Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. from 1983 to 2005.
Omar Albayoumi was a California-based Saudi spy, declassified FBI documents state, according to multiple reports. The 9/11 Commission never knew this.
It is alleged Albayoumi helped 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khalid Al-Mihdhar, who were the first to arrive in the U.S. when they landed in Los Angeles in January 2000. That Southern California terror cell was exposed years later in an FBI report titled “PENTBOMB.”
Those first two hijackers would move on to San Diego where they attempted to train as pilots — not needing to know how to take off or land — and then ultimately, with a lot of help, boarded Flight 77, slamming it into the Pentagon on 9/11 killing 64 people on the plane and 125 in the Pentagon.
The three other hijacked jets — Flight 11 and Flight 175 out of Logan International Airport in Boston and Flight 93 out of Newark International Airport — slammed into the Twin Towers and a field in Shanksville, Pa., respectively, on 9/11.
Now the PGA-LIV deal has opened that sore.
“People need to know,” said Hansen, of the firm Hansen & Rosasco, LLP. “You can’t forget for money. … We’re talking about regular people who should be thinking about retirement now but instead are going to chemo.
“We’re getting calls almost every day from people who are sick,” he added. “These poor guys put the job and the city ahead of their own health to work on the pile. That fired buried at 1,500 degrees until Christmas that year.”
The dust, the smoke, the toxins, the piles of evidence trucked away and painstakingly searched for any shred of human DNA so loved ones could bury some piece of their dads, moms, and children is now infecting those volunteers.
Hansen said that needs to never be forgotten — especially when the next golf tournament pulls into town.
“I am disgusted by this,” said Larry Grey, who lost his partner when the jets hit the Twin Towers. “I can’t forget … the lives lost and the illnesses to this day that are insurmountable.”