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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday July 16 2016, @05:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the dept-line-redacted dept.

The long-secret 28-29 pages of the 9/11 Commission's report have been released by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, albeit in a redacted form:

"According to various FBI documents and CIA memorandum, some of the September 11 hijackers, while in the United States, apparently had contacts with individuals who may be connected to the Saudi Government," the report said, giving a catalog of alleged links.

They included reported contacts between Saudis in California and a statement that a man who was reportedly a Saudi Interior Ministry official stayed at the same Virginia hotel as one hijacker in September 2001.

Another section said that Omar al-Bayoumi, said to be a Saudi intelligence officer, met with two hijackers at a public place after they arrived in San Diego. It said, citing FBI files, that his salary rose to $3,700 a month from $465 two months after two of the hijackers arrived in California.

One page described how two of the hijackers asked flight attendants technical questions during a trip in 1999 from Phoenix to Washington to attend a party at the Saudi embassy. One tried twice to enter the cockpit. The plane made an emergency landing and the FBI investigated, but did not prosecute.

Here are the documents, available at Cryptome or House.gov. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says that the release of the documents is not an indication that the intelligence community agrees with their accuracy. Apparently, many of the leads mentioned have been investigated by the FBI and found to have no basis in fact.

So, SoylentNews readers, did the Saudis do 9/11?


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Saturday July 16 2016, @07:08AM

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday July 16 2016, @07:08AM (#375289) Journal

    Its rather repetitive in several places, but there's not much that was't suspected long ago, and actually some of these names have been published before. Its clear there was quite a bit of saudi money flowing into mosques in the US, and there still is.

    It should have been made public long ago, and not much would have turned out differently. We would still have gone after Bin Ladin't operation where ever it was. Turns out after all this time we probably didn't need the Saudis as much as Europe did.
       

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