The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released the first in a series of documents relating to its investigation into the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Saudi government's suspected support for the hijackers, following an executive order from President Joe Biden.
CNN reports it.
The document, which dates back to 2016, provides a number of details about the FBI's investigation into the alleged logistical support that a Saudi consular officer and a suspected Saudi intelligence agent in Los Angeles allegedly provided to at least two of the men who hijacked the aircraft on September 11, 2001.
In particular, it describes multiple connections and testimonies that prompted the FBI to suspect Omar al-Bayoumi, officially an Arab student in Los Angeles, but whom the FBI suspected was a Saudi intelligence agent who would later provide "travel assistance. , housing and funding "to help the two hijackers.
The Saudi Embassy in Washington said Wednesday that it "welcomed the release" of the FBI documents but that "any allegation against Saudi Arabia of complicity in the 9/11 attacks would be categorically false."
Biden's executive order came after more than 1,600 people, injured or family members of victims of the attacks, wrote him a letter asking him to refrain from going to Ground Zero in New York to celebrate the 20th anniversary unless had not published information on the role of Saudi Arabia.