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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?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday July 16 2016, @07:05PM
Osama Bin Ladin was a part of the house of Saud. I forget the exact relationship, I think a somewhat distant relative, but as close as many others who are acknowledged members.
Now as to this other stuff...I still don't know how official all this was. And the groups on the surface aren't necessarily the groups that are important. There's a lot of "intelligence work" involved here, and guy in intelligence often don't feel bound by the laws of their country. Sort of like other police, only moreso. And intelligence groups tend to break up into clandestine factions.
I don't really feel like claiming that any government, as such, knew what was going on. But lots of governments had actors involved, many of which were doing what they thought was in the best interests of their government...but many of THOSE were paranoid, and others though the governments should be coerced into doing what they *knew* the government really wanted to do, but didn't dare.
So what I'm proposing is that there was an international conspiracy to commit heinous arson by loyal agents of the involved states without the knowledge of the responsible officials. And that it was followed up by an official cover-up, probably with the high officials still not knowing the details.
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