The document details who the pilots were with their Saudi counterparts in the US but does not provide any evidence that the Saudi government was involved in the plot.
The FBI has released a new 16-page document relating to the support of two Saudi Arabian terrorists in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The document, released late Saturday, describes the pilots’ and their Saudi counterparts in the United States but does not provide any evidence that the Saudi government supported the plot. This is the first case to be investigated since US President Joe Biden ordered a re-examination of weapons that have not been seen for years.
Biden has faced difficulties in recent weeks from the families of the victims, who have been searching for the documents while on their way to court in New York claiming that Saudi Arabian authorities have been involved in the threats.
The Saudi government has been reluctant to take part. The Saudi ambassador to Washington said Wednesday that it would help erase all documents as a way to “resolve all non-evidence cases pertaining to the State once and for all”. The Embassy said Saudi Arabia’s claim was false.
Last week Biden instructed the Department of Justice and other agencies to conduct an inquiry into their potential in the next six months. The 16 pages were released Saturday night, just hours after Biden attended the September 11 memorial services in New York, Pennsylvania and northern Virginia. Relatives of the former victims denied Biden’s presence at the ceremony as long as the documents were selected.
A report that was updated on Saturday describes interviews conducted in 2015 with a U.S. citizen applicant and years ago repeatedly linked to Saudi Arabian citizens whom researchers said provided “necessary assistance” to several immigrants.
The documents are being released at a time when political tensions between the US and Saudi Arabia, two countries have forged alliances – as difficult – as possible, especially on counter-terrorism issues.
Biden officials in February released a report on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s 2018 assassination of US journalist Jamal Khashoggi but was criticized by Democrats for avoiding direct punishment of the prince.
As of September 11, people have been speculating that they will take action since the eagle’s attack, when it was revealed that 15 of the 19 fighters were Saudis. Osama bin Laden, an al-Qaida leader at the time, came from a prominent family in the empire.
The U.S. has surveyed some Saudi spies and other Saudi government officials who are known to pilots after arriving in the US, according to documents already released.
However, a 9/11 Commission report did not find “any evidence that the Saudi government as an organization or any Saudi official paid” for the threats posed by al-Qaeda. But the commission also said it was “possible” that Saudi aid agencies did.
The main focus is on the first two immigrants to the US, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. In February 2000, shortly after arriving in southern California, he came across a halal restaurant owned by a Saudi citizen named Omar al-Bayoumi who helped them find and rent a house in San Diego, had relations with the Saudi government and had attracted the attention of the FBI.