Victim families say it has ‘taken way too long’ to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for alleged support on 9/11

Terry Strada, center, who lost her husband Tom Strada, stands with others who lost loved ones in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks listens during a press conference about the September 11th Transparency Act on Capitol Hill on 5 August 2021, in Washington DC. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

The leader of one group of 9/11 victims’ families says it has “taken way too long” to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its alleged support of the terrorists who carried out the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, whose 25th anniversary is being observed across the US on Friday.

As that grim milestone approached, Terry Strada – the national chair of 9/11 Families United – said she felt as if it had “been several lifetimes” for there to be progress in the effort “to achieve a modicum of justice through our court system” in connection with the deadliest act of terror against the US.