JEA: Who said that Saudis had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack again?
For more than 20 years, successive US presidents have given Saudi Arabia a pass on the question of whether the kingdom’s government had anything to do with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As the story goes, plenty of individual Saudis were involved — including 15 of the 19 hijackers and Osama bin Laden — but there was no evidence to indicate that the Saudi government itself was behind the attacks.
That’s more or less what the 9/11 Commission concluded, and the Saudi government continues to cite the commission’s report in official statements as proof that “Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with this terrible crime.”
In its report, the commission took particular pains not to implicate Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi national who met two of the 9/11 hijackers in Los Angeles shortly after they arrived in the US. Bayoumi then helped them move to San Diego, where he signed as the guarantor on an apartment they rented.
Bayoumi has long maintained that he met the hijackers by coincidence, a claim the commission did little to contradict. Instead, it painted a mostly innocuous portrait of Bayoumi’s background, concluding that he was in the US “as a business student” and that he worked for the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority. “I don’t believe he was a ‘Saudi government agent’ working to help terrorists,” wrote Philip Zelikow, the 9/11 Commission’s executive director, in response to questions from a journalist in 2007.
But over the past several months, a raft of new documents released by the American and British governments suggest that the 9/11 Commission got it wrong. An FBI memo declassified in March, in response to an executive order by President Joe Biden, reported that Bayoumi was receiving a monthly stipend from Saudi intelligence.
In other words, he was not a student but a spy. According to the FBI memo, dated June 14, 2017, Bayoumi was tasked with gathering information “on persons of interest in the Saudi community” and passing the intelligence to Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, the Saudi ambassador at the time.
“Allegations of Albayoumi’s involvement with Saudi intelligence were not confirmed at the time of the 9/11 Commission Report,” writes the memo’s author, an FBI special agent at the bureau’s Washington field office, whose name is redacted. “The above information confirms those allegations.”
A second declassified FBI memo shows that a confidential source told the FBI there was a “50/50 chance” that Bayoumi had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks and “assisted two of the hijackers while residing in San Diego.”
The FBI declined to comment. But the revelations appear to undercut the Saudi government’s claims that it had no ties to the 9/11 attacks. While US intelligence agencies have repeatedly concluded that the Saudi government as a whole had no advance knowledge of the 2001 plot, they have flagged specific Saudi agencies and members of the royal family as having ties to Al Qaeda. Last year, newly declassified FBI files complicated another crucial piece of Bayoumi’s narrative, suggesting that his initial meeting with the two hijackers had been arranged by contacts at the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles.
Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, told Insider he’s skeptical that Bayoumi knew about the plot, or that he was working for Saudi intelligence. Many high-ranking Saudis, Zelikow pointed out, were despised by bin Laden and opposed to his efforts. “The information that Bayoumi might have been a paid informant … if it is true, actually tends to cut the other way,” Zelikow said — suggesting that Bayoumi would have been working against the hijackers.
In an interview with Insider, Thomas Kean, the former New Jersey governor who chaired the 9/11 Commission, acknowledged that Bayoumi “was definitely involved” with the Saudi government. But he remains uncertain about what form that involvement took. “There’s no question he was involved with Saudi…” Kean said, and did not complete that sentence before continuing. “It’s difficult in Saudi Arabia to decide who’s who — whether it’s the royal family or Saudi intelligence.” Kean also reiterated that the commission found no evidence to suggest that Bayoumi had advance knowledge of the attacks.
But a second raft of documents — released by the British government last week in response to a civil lawsuit against the Saudi government by the families of 9/11 victims — points to the possibility that Bayoumi knew about the attacks before they took place. Among Bayoumi’s papers was a diagram depicting a plane descending toward a target on the horizon. Beside the diagram is a formula used to calculate the distance to the target.
The diagram was seized by British police in late 2001, but its existence wasn’t noted until 2007 — three years after the 9/11 commission issued its final report. It’s hard to imagine an innocuous explanation for anyone possessing such a diagram shortly before the 9/11 attacks. “Sure looks suspicious — and sinister,” said Philip Shenon, author of “The Commission,” a history of the 9/11 report, which recounted dissent from some of the commission’s staff regarding the extent of Saudi involvement. “Fair to wonder whether it suggests he knew in detail about the 9/11 plot.”
Mark Rossini, a former FBI agent who worked as a liaison to the CIA’s bin Laden unit, didn’t believe the Bayoumi had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, which, he said, was limited to a small circle within Al Qaeda. But after reviewing the diagram, he changed his mind. “There’s no question that guy was a Saudi agent,” Rossini told Insider. “He lied. It’s unequivocal.”
Zelikow, for his part, remains skeptical. He suggested that the drawing and calculations might be related to Bayoumi’s work with the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority. “It is possible that someone working in civil aviation might have worked on such equations, for various reasons,” he said.
Bayoumi, who has returned to Saudi Arabia, has given multiple interviews to law enforcement over the years, but the deposition he gave in the civil lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims remains under seal. It’s unclear whether he has been asked about the diagram but, it’s hard to see how the core question of Saudi involvement in 9/11 can be resolved without a full and credible account of his actions.
The evidence declassified by the British government also includes videos showing Bayoumi filming himself and his circle during his time in San Diego. One shows him embracing Anwar al-Awlaki, a local imam at the time who had ties to Al Qaeda. Like Bayoumi, Awlaki was close to the hijackers. In 2011, he was killed by a US drone strike in Yemen. A second video shows Khalid al-Mihdhar, one of the two San Diego hijackers, in the kitchen of the apartment that Bayoumi helped him rent.
The release of these new documents comes at an inconvenient time for the Biden administration. The US wants cheap oil, continued rights for military bases, and a revived nuclear deal with Iran. Saudi Arabia wants to end all discussion of the state-sponsored murder of Jamal Khashoggi and a free hand to pursue its brutal proxy war in Yemen. The last thing either country wants is a renewed debate over the Saudi role in 9/11. “The sad truth is that because of geopolitical issues, especially petroleum, we’ll never go after the Saudis or hold them accountable,” said Rossini, the former FBI agent.
For decades, the US has allowed its codependent relationship with the Saudi royal family to circumscribe what was supposed to be an exhaustive 9/11 investigation. The more the loose ends become public, the harder it will be to avoid taking a closer, more complete look at who supported the hijackers, and why. The reason we have new information about Bayoumi’s ties to the Saudis, it’s worth noting, is because Biden decided to declassify more documents related to 9/11 — a much-needed step toward greater transparency.
“All of a sudden, all of this information is available,” said Karen Greenberg, who directs the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. “Maybe we’re finally coming to a sense as a country that we can look these facts in the face and tell the story of what happened.”
Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the book, Kevin MacDonald’s Metaphysical Failure: A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Critique of Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, and Identity Politics. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.
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Funny how they up the SA connection after they told Bidan to take a hike when he came begging for oil and sanctions against Russia🤣
There is proof that no planes were used, only explosives, holograms, CGI, crisis actors, and a compliant media:
brighteon. com/1c870542-7ccc-4d49-808d-196b377796b4 (40 min)
911 Truth Documentary: No Planes? rumble. com/vbw6ip-911-truth-documentary-no-planes.html (20 min)
For further scientific analysis see 911planeshoax. com (a good number of youtube videos there deleted, as they like to do more and more in these days of internet censorship).
And then there are the “Dancing Israelis” and the Police and FBI Reports on their arrest and detention and quiet return to Israel 71 days later: realhistorychan.com/dancing-israelis.html
Later back in Israel on a TV talk show the 3 were together and one of them said they were in New York near the WTC “to document the event.”
I uploaded your second video in YouTube for several times, and not only did they delete the video, but they deleted my account!
US is now playing its last card on SA.. “If you don’t increase oil production, then you pay billions ..”
Just because the deshonest´s in the U.S government give´s a pass on the issue, doesn´t mean none, what about what the Saud´s have to snitch on the issue? Did the Saudi´s had enough time to implode the building?
Susan Lindauer, an ex-CIA agent, said quote “Mohamed Atta was a CIA asset, trained by the United States government, supervised by the United States government”, and she has an interesting story about how the “assets” can’t operate without anyone’s noticing.
youtu.Be/lnn-jn_cvLo?t=1553
VT never gives up!
This artikel is pure bbish!
How convenient.
Yeah. Sure.
Lee Harvey Arabia was the lone Nation.
Hmmm…yeah, it reads like a cover story, to the cover story of the official 9/11 report…What about the deported “Dancing Israeli’s” & “Art Students”, Urban Moving systems, (vans loaded with explosives), arrested, released, and flown out of the country to the criminal nation of no extradition, when nothing non military was in the air that week…Israel did 9/11 beyond a shadow of doubt. Osama, and the box cutter team didn’t bring down those 3-fission weapon prepped buildings…
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no truth in that story. You got it right. Not a single picture of a hijacker at the airports. Bush family ran security at all involved airports and towers. I video call ed “demolition on 911 was taken inside building #7” the building is empty, no desk phones, just bare walls. The same can be seen of the Jewish art students videos. Nothing in the floors they worked, “planting explosives”. Not even the ceiling. They were removing windows and building scaffolds outside and filmed by a helicopter. Same windows , fake, jumpers came from. A guy by the name of Ace Baker offered 100K to anyone that could pass a lie detector test. “I seen a plane”. No planes were used in this operation. Why to risky for the planners. The buildings had to “go down”. A plane could easily miss the true target or hit and smash on the front wall. This was done more or less like a movie. More than likely all media was informed and trained for the event. Best proof. Ambassador Paul Bremer is one of the world’s leading experts on crisis management, terrorism and homeland security. In September 1999, Head of Homeland Security. He quit his government job (Bremer was the only survivor missed his train that morning ) and 1,700 of the employees of Marsh & McLennan had offices in the World Trade Center.
Omar al-Bayoumi was working for CIA and its Mossad and MI6 partners when he helped set up the “hijacker” patsies. Everyone in his family knew he was CIA, as his nephew explained on my radio show: https://noliesradio.org/archives/116887 The bottom line here is that Western intel, dominated by Zionists, did 9/11 in such a way as to frame the Saudis (and Pakistanis) and gain leverage over them. Thanks to 9/11 the Zionists were able to reverse King Fahd’s August 2001 decision to leave the American orbit (“the parting of the ways”) due to US support for Zionism. So the Saudis were victims and patsies of 9/11, while the Zionists were the perps.
All of these “blame the Saudis” propaganda pieces in the MSM and pseudo-alt media are doing the 9/11 perps’ job for them.
medium.Com/@skeptical_for_truth/look-its-the-towers-they-re-falling-ef93699ebd82
Declassified FBI memo confirms that the FBI continues to spread BS about who the real perps of 9/11 are. Israel nuked us that day and got away with it, simple as that. When are we going to see a declassified memo about that?
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