What is known about the Saudi involvement in 9/11 is detailed in The History of Jihad. But much more is not known, and the people who should be investigating, and should have investigated long ago, are clueless, compromised, or complicit.
“EXCLUSIVE: In court filing, FBI accidentally reveals name of Saudi official suspected of directing support for 9/11 hijackers,” by Michael Isikoff, Yahoo News, May 12, 2020
WASHINGTON — The FBI inadvertently revealed one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive secrets about the Sept. 11 terror attacks: the identity of a mysterious Saudi Embassy official in Washington who agents suspected had directed crucial support to two of the al-Qaida hijackers.
The disclosure came in a new declaration filed in federal court by a senior FBI official in response to a lawsuit brought by families of 9/11 victims that accuses the Saudi government of complicity in the terrorist attacks.
The declaration was filed last month but unsealed late last week. According to a spokesman for the 9/11 victims’ families, it represents a major breakthrough in the long-running case, providing for the first time an apparent confirmation that FBI agents investigating the attacks believed they had uncovered a link between the hijackers and the Saudi Embassy in Washington.
It’s unclear just how strong the evidence is against the former Saudi Embassy official — it’s been a subject of sharp dispute within the FBI for years. But the disclosure, which a senior U.S. government official confirmed was made in error, seems likely to revive questions about potential Saudi links to the 9/11 plot.
It also shines a light on the extraordinary efforts by top Trump administration officials in recent months to prevent internal documents about the issue from ever becoming public.
“This shows there is a complete government cover-up of the Saudi involvement,” said Brett Eagleson, a spokesman for the 9/11 families whose father was killed in the attacks. “It demonstrates there was a hierarchy of command that’s coming from the Saudi Embassy to the Ministry of Islamic Affairs [in Los Angeles] to the hijackers.”
Still, Eagleson acknowledged he was flabbergasted by the bureau’s slip-up in identifying the Saudi Embassy official in a public filing. Although Justice Department lawyers had last September notified lawyers for the 9/11 families of the official’s identity, they had done so under a protective order that forbade the family members from publicly disclosing it.
Now, the bureau itself has named the Saudi official. “This is a giant screwup,” Eagleson said….
In a portion describing the material sought by lawyers for the 9/11 families, Sanborn refers to a partially declassified 2012 FBI report about an investigation into possible links between the al-Qaida terrorists and Saudi government officials. That probe, the existence of which has only become public in the past few years, initially focused on two individuals: Fahad al-Thumairy, a Saudi Islamic Affairs official and radical cleric who served as the imam of the King Fahd Mosque in Los Angeles and Omar al-Bayoumi, a suspected Saudi government agent who assisted two terrorists, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who participated in the hijacking of the American Airlines plane that flew into the Pentagon, killing 125.
After the two hijackers flew to Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2000, al-Bayoumi found them an apartment, lent them money and set them up with bank accounts.
A redacted copy of a three-and-a-half page October 2012 FBI “update” about the investigation stated that FBI agents had uncovered “evidence” that Thumairy and Bayoumi had been “tasked” to assist the hijackers by yet another individual whose name was blacked out, prompting lawyers for the families to refer to this person as “the third man” in what they argue is a Saudi-orchestrated conspiracy.
Describing the request by lawyers for the 9/11 families to depose that individual under oath, Sanborn’s declaration says in one instance that it involves “any and all records referring to or relating to Jarrah.”
The reference is to Mussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah, a mid-level Saudi Foreign Ministry official who was assigned to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., in 1999 and 2000. His duties apparently included overseeing the activities of Ministry of Islamic Affairs employees at Saudi-funded mosques and Islamic centers within the United States.
Relatively little is known about Jarrah, but according to former embassy employees, he reported to the Saudi ambassador in the United States (at the time Prince Bandar), and that he was later reassigned to the Saudi missions in Malaysia and Morocco, where he is believed to have served as recently as last year.
Jarrah has been on the radar screen of the lawyers for the 9/11 families for some time and is among nine current or former Saudi officials who they suspect have important information about the case and have sought to either question them or get access to FBI documents that mention them.
The families have also tapped former agents to help investigate the activities of the potential witnesses, including Jarrah.
Jarrah “was responsible for the placement of Ministry of Islamic Affairs employees known as guides and propagators posted to the United States, including Fahad Al Thumairy,” according to a separate declaration by Catherine Hunt, a former FBI agent based in Los Angeles who has been assisting the families in the case.
Hunt conducted her own investigation into the support provided to the hijackers in Southern California. “The FBI believed that al-Jarrah was ‘supporting’ and ‘maintaining’ al-Thumairy during the 9/11 investigation,” she said in her declaration….
mortimer says
I read years ago that the 15 Saudis involved in 9-11 had been managed by low-level Saudi intel. The investigaton of 9-11 apparently stopped before these low-level people were exposed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX6OLMAVuqs
Hindu American says
Not just the saudis, the pakistanis were also involved in planning this attack. Omar Sheikh, on the instructions of General Mahmoud Ahmed, the then head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), wired $100,000 before the 9/11 attacks to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker. Daniel Pearl, who was investigating the paki connection, was murdered in pakistan by ISI proxies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/22/usa.september11
https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/the-pakistan-connection/224581
gravenimage says
Thanks for that information, Hindu American. First I had heard of the ISI being involved in 9/11. I can’t say it surprises, though.
Jayell says
Bearing in mind islam’s well-known agenda for world domination, I think it’s safest to assume that ANY islamic country is likely to be involved in this sort of thing. The pattern seems to be that if they can’t, or don’t want tot be bothered with, achieving their aim through the peaceful methods of financially-based infiltration and corruption of Western societies and institutions, they’ll happily revert to their ‘prophet’s’ barbarous methods. A good example is Qatar, a hideous little cesspit of islamic depravity, which has sneaked its way into European establishments to spread its nasty influence; their utterly and transparently corrupt performance in getting hold of the 2022 soccer World Cup is a case in point, even more amazing for the facts that everyone knows that’s its the most stupid venue for this tournament, they got away with it in broad daylight, and no country has had the decency and integrity to pull out of the sham..What they’ll do once they’ve really got their greasy hands on the controls Allah alone knows!
H B Subrahmanyam says
It is a consciously concealed secret, though known to the North American and European Governments. They fear the wrath of the oil rich Islamic nations. Saudi Arabia extends the financial support and Pakistan shelters and trains the Islamic terrorists. Another 9/11 is not far away if the myopic western leaders do not wake up.
JimJFox says
Another 911 would be ideal in waking up our stupid Western politicians. Unless of course they are also complicit. Anything seems possible in this insane world.
peter says
Ajazeera which is a mouth organ of Qhatar is a cess pool of anti India , anti Trump and anti Israel vitriole and has the audacity to claim that it is fair and unbiased
gravenimage says
Wait–JimJFox wants thousands *more* Americans to die at the hands of Jihad terrorists? 36,000+ Jihad terror attacks aren’t enough?
And no–Jihad terror is not being waged by Western leaders, no matter how clueless they may otherwise be.
David M says
Another 9/11 is already here. It’s called coronavirus.
gravenimage says
David, a pandemic is not the same as a Jihad terror attack.
William Snow Hume says
gravenimage, David M is quite correct, if I am to believe what Al Qaeda says, in its criticism of “ISIS” (whose proper name is Global Gathering). AQ’s information was that China “developed”, but did *not* “engineer”, a few strains of what is called COVID-19 at the Wuhan Virology Institute; that one or more apparently-atheist “Lo Pro” Han Chinese Muslims (i.e., Hui Muslims) spirited two strains out last fall, on three or more occasions; one was planted among trade emissaries to Qum, Iran; another strain was used to infect visiting horses for the Military Olympics game in Wuhan in October, 2019; and the former strain also went to the “Wet Market”, using the “Lost Dog” method so familiar from their bombings. It was “payback” for the treatment of the Uighur Muslims, and a “rifle-focused” sectarian attack on Shiites. AQ is *very* distressed at what was done by ISIS. They hope that the US government will systematically check US & European live horses, European horse meat, and US pork meat. WSH
gravenimage says
William. I am *no* fan of either the Chinese Communists or of Muslims, but there is no indication that Covid-19 was created by either one.
In fact, Coronaviruses have been around fro centuries, and have often been spread initially by eating wild animals.
SARS, which threatened us a few years ago, was also likely initially spread by people eating bats.
William Snow Hume says
gravenimage, I think that there is a problem with the term “to create a virus”. US military medical intelligence has “HUMINT” to the effect that this particular form of coronavirus was, in fact, *developed* there in Wuhan. And that is exactly what the Al Qaeda sources are saying. But it is very important to distinguish between “genetic engineering” of viruses, viz., cutting and splicing, and traditional “Monsanto method” selective breeding. Listen carefully to what the federal officials are saying: they are careful to avoid accusing China of “engineering” the virus, because no “engineering” ever occurred. So, China had to figure out a way to *develop* biological weapons, without “engineering” any virus. Otherwise, they probably would have broken some treaty.
At Wuhan, the Chinese researchers “channeled LUTHER BURBANK”, so to speak; they took Selective Breeding to an extreme, except that viruses, unlike citrus and other fruit plants, simply do not “breed”.
What the Chinese discovered — and have not published yet — is that certain kinds of host cells are much more conducive to replication and related mutation of any coronavirus. Thus, by “feeding” [so to speak] the coronavirus to certain kinds of host cells, they were able to achieve a much higher rate of mutation. That allowed them to “pick and choose” among mutations, to see which ones would infect which kinds of animals without danger to those animals.
Thus, an ISIS infiltrator (who seemed to be a secularized Han Chinese) into the lab knew that the “novel” coronavirus could infect most dogs, and that the dogs would, for the most part, not show symptoms. [Think:about the news article a few weeks back: One dog in Hong Kong died, but the other one from the same household lived.] it’s not halal to eat dog meat. Thus, anyone who did, after dog meat was purchased at the “wet market”, was at heightened risk. You yourself said that “[i]n fact, Coronaviruses have been around for centuries, and have often been spread initially by eating […] animals.”
AQ has repeatedly said that the lab researchers knew that this particular coronavirus would not affect horses… but that humans could get infected from eating the horsemeat. Remember the lion and tiger in the New York Zoo which got infected with COVID-19? The zookeepers were feeding “horse meat sticks” to these giant felines. Italy & Spain are the top consumer-nations of horsemeat, and guess what? They have the highest rates of COVID-19 infection and death. Unfortunately, the US government’s disease agencies have chosen to not investigate viral infestation of live horses and of horsemeat. Now: donkey meat is definitely halal according to the Sunni hadiths, but that is not the case with horse meat.
Please try to keep an open mind about this..
RonaldB says
We’re in thrall to the Saudis just as we’re in thrall to the Chinese, as long as we have massive government spending deficits. Someone has to buy our debt, or we get hyperinflation. Whatever administration is in office when hyperinflation hits is toast in the next election. So, Republican or Democrat or populist, there is only so far a government will go to confront our enemies who hold our treasuries.
Of course, the Saudis had a more direct pipeline to the George W. Bush administration, having pulled the Bushes chestnuts out of the fire with “investments”. I would say George W Bush’s competence in business rivaled the competence of, say, Hunter Biden.
If Trump wins the next election, it would be a good time to pull welfare from the budget: education welfare, corporate welfare, poverty welfare, military complex welfare, Deep State (intelligence) welfare: let’s stay within our means.
Phil Copson says
These things are simple: if you have a national debt, then (A)somebody owns that debt, and (B) that somebody owns you.
A child can understand things that a sophisticated adult uses their intelligence to deny, eg –
“The man who pays the pauper calls the tune….”
rubiconcrest says
In the case of Saudi Arabia if they are knew and supported 9/11 the tables turn on the regime.
gravenimage says
Pays the piper
Linde Barrera says
To RonaldB- I am a Reagan (not a Rockefeller) Republican, and I love Donald Trump. I also volunteered for Ted Cruz in NH in early 2016 before Trump got the Republican bid. But I never cared for George W. Bush or Dick Cheney, they were just too “PRIVATE EQUITY ELITE” for me.
As far as oil imports to the US from Saudi Arabia go, I hope that anyone who lives in the US in areas with lots of sunshine can get access to solar panels. Windmills are good too. Both sun and wind can provide energy power for many millions of Americans and it should be utilized as quickly and permanently as possible. This way US dependence on Saudi-terrorist oil can lessen. I would love to see Saudi-terrorist oil consumption go down to 0% since burning fossil fuels do a lot of damage to the air we all breathe. IF Saudi-terrorist oil consumption can be cut by 1/2 then Saudi-terrorism can be unfunded by 1/2. That is a great goal toward which all civilized nations should be working. All Jihad Watch readers should be praying for that goal.
gravenimage says
FBI reveals name of Saudi official suspected of directing support for 9/11 jihadis
……………….
Why are we *still* pretending these thugs are our allies?
spiro says
Money
Same reason democrats in Washington DC defend China and our so called universities accept Chinese
Money and influence
We sold out to the foreign
Countries for low cost products and didn’t support made in america
Walter Sieruk says
The slamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not and will not spare any of its vast oil wealth as to use its financial resources to fund and promote the advancement of Islam by and through the jihad. By this it means both the stealth jihad and even the subtle support violent jihad.
As explained, for example in the book HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD by William Wagner. For on pages 109, 110. The reader is informed that “The Wall Street journal on April 15, 2003 published an article titled ‘In law Seminars, A Saudi Group Spreads Extremism.’ The article began by saying ‘In late February more than 300 young men from across Europe gathered for a weekend seminar on Islamic Law put on by Al-Waqf al-Islaami Foundation.’ The article went on to explain that the most famous graduates from the seminar were half a dozen members of the group of young men from Hamburg, Germany, who plotted the September 11, attacks. The language of the was Dutch, but ‘the message was imported from Saudi Arabia, via Saudi books and lecturers who taught a strict orthodox interpretation of Islam.’ “
Further on the very same page of 110 the information is given that “TIME MAGAZINE , in an article on Saudi Arabia: Inside the Kingdom,’ stated ‘Apart from channeling money to foundations that have assisted terrorist groups, Saudis have for years supported institutions abroad the propagate Wahhabism.’”
In addition to all this, in the book of the title of THE HISTORY OF JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS, by Robert Spencer on pages 333 through 337.Mr Spencer provides valid information of the subject of “ The Saudi involvement in September 11.”
So with that Islamic regime of Saudi Arabia and its oil money support the different type of the jihad, both stealth and the violent kind, with its Islamic agenda advancement and spread , influence and infiltration of the Western nations ,this kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no friend at all of America or any other country of the West.
Jerry says
Peace is a Universal Problem for which Islam is the Universal Solution.
Walter Sieruk says
To Jerry , are you joking or under the influence of the deception of Islam ?
For the reality is that Islam is plague upon humankind ,to all people Muslims and non-Muslims ,
This claim of Islam being an “universal solution” is bogus. This has been proven by the Qur’an and other authorized written works of this religion as well as by the violent and murderous jihadists who devoutly follow the instructions of the Qur ‘an ,Sura 9:5,111.123 . 47:4
mortimer says
Jerry, ‘Islamic peace’ is described by Muslim scholars as the total subjugation of all kafirs. The total Islamic state would look like Afghastlistan under the Taliban … a totally dysfunctional 7th century country ruled by trigger-happy killers. Perhaps you are trying to be facetious.
gravenimage says
He means that if you think that peace is a problem then violence Islam is the ‘cure’.
Peter says
That’s how I understood what Jerry was saying also.
Walter Sieruk says
Now there is more proof yet that the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not an innocent nation when it comes to the subject of promoting Islamic terrorism by setting up Muslim brainwashing centers in which impressionable Muslim youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into the ways of Quran based jihad violence with much killing of people who are not Muslim for the advancement of Islam. As the Quran instructs, for example 2:191., 5:33. 9:5,111,112,123 47:4,89.
One scholar, Brigitte Gabriel, who is an from the Middle East had in her book with the title of THEY MUST BE STOPPED informs her readers on page 114. “Saudi Arabia is one of the leading financial contributors to Islamic terrorism worldwide. Part of that contribution is made by funding madrasas throughout the world and the brainwashing of Muslim children with intolerant teaching towards anything non-Muslim.”
Likewise, a former Muslim, Ibn Warraq, in his book which has the title of THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM on page 353 reveals that “Saudi Arabia has spent millions on Islamic propaganda and on building madrassas.”
Further on the subject that there are Muslim mind control and mind programming places where Muslim males are thoroughly indoctrinated into the strong but blind and unquestioning faith in Koran with all non-watered down; hard core Islam with its militant jihad. Those places, “schools,” are called madrasas. In those Islamic mind programming centers young Muslim male are ingrain in the mindset Koranic dogma of the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As the Koran instructs. As in, for example, in 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4. Many of those who of such center are so much damaged that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As seen many times in jihad suicide, homicide bombing/attacks. For the Koran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Furthermore, those mind programming places also ingrain the outlandish absurd Koranic doctrine of a sex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. Such a strange doctrine of a houris filled- place in found in the Koran in 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. Moreover, such Islamic mind programming centers are further explained about by the scholar Don Richardson in his book SECRETS OF THE KORAN which on pages 69,70. Informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslim youth in the Muslim worlds’ religious schools, called madrasa, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran … These schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorists. When male students, isolated from family and friends in madrasa, reach puberty and their hormones are active, there are no girls to date. Instead, Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verse that promises sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about martyrdom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique , and the Koran is its perfect guidebook. ”
In short, there is blame ,rightfully, put on the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the mass murders which occurred on September 11, 2001.
Walter Sieruk says
he Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia in no friend of any Western nation, Saudi Arabia is best defined as a kingdom of Islamic hate
As one Arab scholar who had lived in a Middle Eastern country, for many years revealed “Saudi madrassa notably teach hatred and condemnation of the West and non-Muslims” and “The Saudi Government also provides free textbooks to Islamic schools throughout the world . many of the Saudi- Issued textbook’s contain wording that encourages hatred and intolerance for non-Muslims.” [1]
Saudi Arabia in many ways is no better than Iran.
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, page 106
Brigitte Gabriel is the founder and head of
Walter Sieruk says
She ist he head of http://www.actforamerica.org
tgusa says
We can point fingers anywhere and everywhere but in the end we really have no one else to blame but our leadership and by extension ourselves.Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, both are considered allies of Washington dc not the American people. Add to that the sellout of America to China, the current virus that has ensued, and the resulting destruction of the economy and the wrecking of lives and livelihoods and it should be clear to even the most clueless of Americans that many of Americas leaders have become the enemy of the American people. The Republic is in grave peril of an unraveling as a result of the willing participation of those charged with defending it. We have been living on the edge too long, dancing with devils, and now a perfect storm has us surrounded on all sides.
And I wont even bother to mention the seditious conspiracy to overthrow a duly elected president that continues today.
OLD GUY says
Saudi Arabia is no friend of America only playing to that idea for their own benefit , they are truly the financial baking behind the islamic domination of the world. The Saudi’s are major players and finical backers of politicians around the globe with only one thing in mind, islamic domination.
Spiro says
Who paid for the mosque at ground zero in New York
Honestly I don’t remember but I read somewhere it’s a symbol of victory to build a mosque at the site of an attack
Who gave the ok for this mosque