A lawyer for the families of 9/11 victims said conclusions 'validate arguments we have made in litigation regarding the Saudi government’s responsibility.'
is a summary of an FBI interview done in 2015 with a man who had frequent contact with Saudi nationals in the U.S. who supported the first hijackers to arrive in the country before the attacks.
The Saudi government has long denied any involvement in the attacks. The Saudi Embassy in Washington has it supported the full declassification of all records as a way to “end the baseless allegations against the Kingdom once and for all.” The embassy said that any allegation that Saudi Arabia was complicit was “The trove of documents are being released at a politically delicate time for the U.S.
“This document, together with the public evidence gathered to date, provides a blueprint for how [al Qaeda] operated inside the US with the active, knowing support of the Saudi government,” he said. The U.S. investigated some Saudi diplomats and others with Saudi government ties who knew hijackers after they arrived in the U.S., according to documents that have already been declassified.
In February 2000, shortly after their arrival in southern California, they encountered at a halal restaurant a Saudi national named Omar al-Bayoumi who helped them find and lease an apartment in San Diego, had ties to the Saudi government and had earlier attracted FBI scrutiny.
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