{"id":345186,"date":"2026-09-12T20:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345186\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:10:43","slug":"stop-lying-wife-of-9-11-victim-calls-out-saudi-arabia-during-new-york-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345186\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop lying\u2019: Wife of 9\/11 victim calls out Saudi Arabia during New York ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; A woman whose husband died in the attacks called out Saudi Arabia during an annual remembrance ceremony in Manhattan, urging President Donald Trump to \u201ctell the Saudis to stop lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Terry Strada, who lost her husband Tom Strada on 9\/11, said U.S. presidents have chosen \u201cto protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9\/11 families,\u201d as the crowd at the ground zero broke out in applause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt has been one betrayal after another. President Trump can still change that,\u201d she said before telling Vice President JD Vance, who was in attendance, to \u201ccarry that message back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cStand with the families, stand with the survivors,\u201d she said. \u201cStand with Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Although 15 of the 19 attackers on 9\/11 were Saudis, the Saudi government has long denied any involvement in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; A woman whose husband died in the attacks called out Saudi Arabia during an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[126614,9,24,63,129349,134,136,135,1069,129348],"class_list":["post-345186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-9-11-ceremony","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-saudia-arabia","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-trump","tag-trump-9-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}