There was enormous pressure on the Joe Biden administration to make these confidential documents public. So, the FBI released it on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
The facts of the document also highlight the already existing relationship between Fahd al-Thumairi, the Orthodox imam of the King Fad Mosque in Los Angeles, and an official at the Saudi consulate there.
Washington: Till now it was being said that only Osama bin Laden and his terrorist organization Al Qaeda were behind the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York, USA 20 years ago.
had a hand, but documents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation indicate that Saudi Arabia had links to the then hijackers of the four planes for the attack. The Joe Biden administration made the confidential document about this public on Saturday. However, it lacks solid evidence.
A confidential document dated April 4, 2016 shows a link between Omar Bayoumi (a student at the time but suspected to be a Saudi intelligence operative) and two al-Qaeda operatives who plotted to hijack four planes It could be crashed on targeted targets in New York and Washington.
The document, based on interviews with a source (whose identities have been kept confidential) from 2009 and 2015, presents the fact that there were contacts between Bayumi and the two hijackers – Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar – between them. Many meetings were held.
The document states that these attacks took place only after both of them arrived in Southern California in 2000.
The fact of the document also exposes and strengthens suspicions on the already existing relationship between Fahd al-Thumairi, the Orthodox imam of the King Fad Mosque in Los Angeles, and an official of the Saudi consulate there.
There was enormous pressure on the Joe Biden administration to make these confidential documents public. Therefore, the FBI released it on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
