Trump to Consider Request to Release More 9/11 Documents

U.S. President Donald Trump will consider a request from the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks to release more documents about the events and whether their perpetrators had ties to Saudi Arabia.

"I'll review it when I return," he told journalists last Sunday in Ireland before boarding a plane to return to the United States.

The victims' families have long been seeking the declassification of additional documents related to the events. New York lawmakers from both parties have urged the Trump Administration to release certain telephone records. "This is probably one of the best opportunities we have to bring this information to light," Republican Representative Nicole Malliotakis declared in early September. "And I hope we see this kind of transparency from this Administration," she added, according to Reuters.

On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes. Two of them were crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, causing both buildings to collapse. A third struck the Pentagon in Virginia, while the fourth plane, which was supposedly meant to crash into the U.S. Capitol, went down in an open field in Pennsylvania.

The atrocious attacks, which left nearly 3,000 dead, launched the U.S. "war on terror," which included the invasion of Afghanistan, lasting nearly two decades.