FBI documents: There is no evidence of Saudi Arabia's direct involvement in the 9/11 attacks - Walla! news

2021-09-12T06:50:37.300Z

The first documents partially allowed for publication at Biden's order noted contacts between the hijackers and several Saudi officials, but they did not include any evidence of government involvement in Riyadh. For the families of the victims, who marked 20 years since the terrorist attack, it was enough: "Saudi secrets revealed"

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FBI documents: No evidence of Saudi direct involvement in 9/11 attacks

For the families of the victims, who marked 20 years since the terrorist attack, it was enough: "Saudi secrets revealed"

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15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis.

The attack on the Twin Towers, September 11, 2001 (Photo: AP)

The investigation focused specifically on the first two kidnappers who came to the United States - Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khaled al-Mihdar - and the support they received.

In February 2000, shortly after arriving in Southern California, they met a Saudi citizen at the restaurant - Omar al-Biumi - who helped them find and rent an apartment in San Diego. Al-Bayumi had a connection to the Saudi government and he had already attracted the FBI's attention earlier. According to the document, during his interrogation he said that the meeting at the restaurant was accidental and the FBI repeatedly tried to determine if he was accurate in his remarks or if in fact the meeting was scheduled in advance.

The document was based on a 2015 investigation of a man who applied for U.S. citizenship and who a few years earlier had been in repeated contact with Saudi citizens, who investigators said provided "significant logistical support" to some of the abductors. Among his contacts was al-Bayumi. His identity remains confidential in parts of the document that were allowed to be published, but it is stated that he works at the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles.

The families pressured him to allow the investigation documents to be published.

Biden (Photo: Reuters)

The document also mentions Fahd a-Thumiri, who was at the time a diplomat at the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles and according to investigators headed an extremist faction in his mosque.

According to the document, experts identified a seven-minute phone call from 1999 between Thomiri and a family phone line in Saudi Arabia, two of whose sons were brought to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in the future.

Al-Bayumi and Thomeiri left the United States a few weeks before the attacks.

Terry Strada, whose husband Tom was killed in the attacks, said in a statement on behalf of the victims 'families' organization that the released documents dispelled doubts about Saudi involvement in the attacks.

"Now the Saudi secrets are revealed and the government should have long ago confessed to the role of officials in the murder of thousands of people on US soil," the statement said.