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LIV tees off in Oregon amid criticism over Saudi funding

Survivors of the 9/11 attacks and several family members of some of its victims embrace each other after a news conference at the North Plains Veterans Park in North Plains, Ore. Thursday, June 30, 2022. The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf tour teed off Thursday, angering a group of families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11 and want the Saudi government held to account for the terrorist attacks. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP)

Terrease Aiken, right, leans against her mother, Kimberly, during a news conference at the North Plains Veterans Park in North Plains, Ore. Thursday, June 30, 2022. The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf tour teed off Thursday, angering a group of families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11 and want the Saudi government held to account for the terrorist attacks. At left is Kanian Aiken. Kanian and Terrease's father, Terrance, was killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York. Kimberly says her husband had just started his first week at Marsh & McLennan when the attacks occurred. Terrance Aiken was 30 years old when he was killed. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP)

Brett Eagleson, who was 15 when his father Bruce was killed in the terrorist attack in New York, is among the speakers at a news conference Thursday, June 30, 2022 at the North Plains Veterans Park in North Plains, Ore. Thursday, June 30, 2022. The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf tour teed off Thursday, angering a group of families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11 and want the Saudi government held to account for the terrorist attacks. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP)

LIV tees off in Oregon amid criticism over Saudi funding