9/11 report’s classified ’28 pages’ about potential Saudi Arabia ties released

Christie Coombs, whose husband Jeff was killed in the 9/11 attacks, said many families have long suspected Saudi government support for the murderous mission. Those who pushed for its release say it’s only the beginning.

“Acccording to various Federal Bureau of Investigation documents and at least one Central Intelligence Agency 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”, one section of the document reads.

A later investigation, by the independent 9/11 Commission, concluded in 2004 there was no evidence that the Saudi government or officials backed the terrorists, although al Qaeda derived much of its funding from the kingdom.

Later investigations found no evidence that the Saudi government or senior Saudi officials knowingly supported those who orchestrated the attacks.

As for the now-infamous 28 pages, the information is a selection of a congressional inquiry dating back to 2002, which has been kept secret due to concerns that it could cause strained diplomatic relations between the USA and Saudi Arabia surrounding the September 11 attacks, reported the New York Times.

Saudi officials have pointed to statements from USA officials supporting their position, including an interview CIA Director John Brennan did with the Saudi-owned Arabic news channel Al Arabiya on June 12 in which he said the 28 pages were part of “a very preliminary review”.

The information on that family in contained in 80,000 pages of classified information that a federal judge is expected to rule soon about whether the American public will get to see it or not.

The committee has made the pages immediately available to the public.

But former Florida Sen.

The pages were not part of the 9/11 commission’s actual report, but instead were part of a joint congressional inquiry that gathered and evaluated raw intelligence that was later investigated by the commission’s members.

The now-declassified pages might be confusing or misleading, officials say, because they don’t represent investigators’ final conclusions.

“Numerous” FBI files also fingered two Saudi government employees who assisted the 9/11 hijackers as “Saudi intelligence officers”, the newly declassified documents reveal. “It’s the beginning, but I don’t think it’s the end”, said Terry Strada, national chair for 9/11 Families United For Justice Against Terrorism.

Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001 were Saudi nationals.

The United States probed links between the government of Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 attacks, finding multiple suspicions but no proven ties, documents declassified on Friday showed.

Another described how two of the hijackers asked flight attendants technical questions during a 1999 trip from Phoenix to Washington DC to attend a party at the Saudi embassy.

Last year, a panel of experts selected by Congress reviewed the FBI’s response to the 9/11 Commissions’ recommendations.

The document also points to Osama Bassnan, who lived across the street from two of the hijackers in California. Al-Bayoumi was in close contact with hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, providing them financial assistance during their time in the United States and even helping them find an apartment.