A declassified FBI document opens a revealing new window into the bureau’s investigation of alleged Saudi complicity in the 9/11 terror attacks.
A declassified FBI document opens a revealing new window into the bureau’s investigation of alleged Saudi complicity in the 9/11 terror attacks, raising fresh questions about whether some kingdom officials may have provided support for the al-Qaida terrorists prior to the hijacking of airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
“This is proof of what we’ve been alleging for years,” said Brett Eagleson, a spokesman for the families of 9/11 victims who are suing the Saudi government for providing support to the hijackers. “Why has it taken 20 years for the families to get this document?”dated April 4, 2016, and written by agents involved in Operation Encore, a long-secret FBI probe into the Saudi role in 9/11 whose existence didn't become publicly known until recent years.
“The document provides a blueprint for how al Qaeda operated inside the US with the active, knowing support of the Saudi government,” lawyers for the families wrote in an analysis for their clients over the weekend that was obtained by Yahoo News.
Bayoumi, a purported business student, was a prime target of the FBI probe. He was described as a “ghost employee” of a Saudi aviation firm who never showed up for work and was strongly suspected of Saudi intelligence ties.
The FBI report also reveals that the restaurant meeting came barely an hour after Bayoumi had a meeting at the nearby Saudi government-funded King Fahad Mosque, whose imam, Fahad al-Thumairy, was an accredited Saudi diplomat. Al-Thumairy was a notorious extremist who, according to newly revealed phone records cited in the FBI document, had multiple contacts with al-Qaida operatives, including several who had been implicated in the so-called millennium plot to blow up Los Angeles airport.
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