Katib Al-Shammari (Saudi legal expert) writing in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Hayat after the 2016 passage of anti-Saudi US Congress Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) allowing Americans to sue Saudi Arabia over 9-11 (2016): “September 11 is one of winning cards in the American archives, because all the wise people in the world who are experts on American policy and who analyze the images and the videos [of 9/11] agree unanimously that what happened in the [Twin] Towers was a purely American action, planned and carried out within the U.S. Proof of this is the sequence of continuous explosions that dramatically ripped through both buildings... Expert structural engineers demolished them with explosives, while the planes crashing [into them] only gave the green light for the detonation – they were not the reason for the collapse. But the U.S. still spreads blame in all directions. [This policy] can be dubbed 'victory by means of archives'… On September 11, the U.S. attained several victories at the same time, that [even] the hawks [who were at that time] in the White House could not have imagined. Some of them can be enumerated as follows: 1. The U.S. created, in public opinion, an obscure enemy – terrorism – which became what American presidents blamed for all their mistakes, and also became the sole motivation for any dirty operation that American politicians and military figures desire to carry out in any country. [The] terrorism [label] was applied to Muslims, and specifically to Saudi Arabia. 2. Utilizing this incident [9/11], the U.S. launched a new age of global armament. Everyone wanted to acquire all kinds of weapons to defend themselves and at the same time battle the obscure enemy, terrorism – [even though] up to this very moment we do not know the essence of this terrorism of which the U.S. speaks, except [to say that] that it is Islamic...” (Katib Al-Shammari , “US planned, carried out 9-011 attacks – but blames others for them”, Al-Hayat, April 28, 2016 quoted in “Article is Saudi daily: US planned, carried out 9-11 attacks – but blames others for them”, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), 19 May 2016: http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/96/9202.htm ).