New Evidence of Saudi Role In 9/11 Attacks

New Evidence of Saudi Role In 9/11 Attacks Posted by peeltheonion, July 10, 2009 7:00PM Because of the legal battles being waged by the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks, court proceedings have forced disclosure of files previously denied or redacted by the Bush Administration Justice Department, and 9/11 Commission. Newly surfaced documents from the files of the 9/11 Commission add further evidence of the direct role of Saudi Arabia's intelligence services in the 9/11 attacks. One key document, uncovered in the Commission files last month, confirms that a known Saudi intelligence officer, Omar al-Bayoumi, was working closely with two West Coast-based 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. The newly discovered document, an April 23, 2004 Commission ``Memorandum for the Record,'' summarizes an interview that Commission staffers Quinn John Tamm Jr. and Dietrich Snell had with an unnamed source, who was an FBI informant in the San Diego area, and who housed the two hijackers during much of 2000. The Commission document read, in part: ``Dr. X noted that Omar al-Bayoumi also visited al-Hazmi at his house. Dr. X knew al-Bayoumi as a Saudi national who Dr. X met at the ICSD (Islamic Center of San Diego). Al-Bayoumi stated to Dr. X when he visited, that `I referred them (al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar) to you.' Dr. X restated that this was not the case and that he met the two in the hallway of the ICSD after the Friday prayer service. The memo continues: ``Al-Hazmi did not like al-Bayoumi and told Dr. X that al-Bayoumi was an `agent for the Saudis.' '' Al-Hazmi complained to Dr. X that al-Bayoumi videotaped people associated with the ICSD constantly. Dr. X noted that that was his experience when he attended events at the ICSD. Dr. X said that al-Bayoumi always had his videotape recorder and sought comment to the open mike on the videotape recorder. Dr. X stated that ``I have heard that al-Bayoumi is an agent (of the Saudis).'' What the document does not report, but is included in other 9/11 Commission documents, as well as the Bush White House- suppressed 28-page synopsis of the role of al-Bayoumi and Osama Basnan (another identified Saudi intelligence officer) in funding the two West Coast hijackers, is that Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, then the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, and his wife, Princess Haifa, paid between $50,000 and 72,000 to al-Bayoumi who, in turn, passed some of the money to al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, to finance their rent, and their flight school attendance, in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks. Princess Haifa is the sister of Prince Turki bin-Faisal, who was head of Saudi Arabian intelligence at the time of the 9/11 attacks. He resigned, suddenly, soon after Sept. 11, 2001. The fact that the two hijackers were living in the home of an FBI informant, who did tell the FBI that the two men were living with him, is yet another volatile aspect of the 9/11 case that has been suppressed. The fact that then-FBI Director Louis Freeh is now the attorney representing Prince Bandar in the BAE bribery case is of direct relevance to the ongoing probe into what really was behind the 9/11 attacks. One senior U.S. intelligence source has emphasized that it is very likely that some of the cash paid out by Prince Bandar and Princess Haifa, to the two Saudi intelligence officers, al-Bayoumi and Basnan, came directly out of the BAE bribe payments, wired to Bandar's Saudi embassy account at Riggs National Bank. The new revelations about the Saudi role in 9/11 add furtherweight to news reports today, in the Sunday Times of London, thatMeir Dagan, the head of Israel's intelligence service, Mossad, recently told Prime Minister Netanyahu that Saudi Arabia would not object to an Israeli attack on Iran. In addition, the Times cites another unnamed Israeli source, who claimed that the Saudis would permit Israeli jets to fly over Saudi territory, to carry out bombing attacks against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons sites. In a recent event in Washington, D.C., Lyndon LaRouche identified Israel and Saudi Arabia as two anchors of the British Sykes-Picot imperial controls over the entire region. Source: http://blog.nj.com/njv_publicblog/2009/07/new_evidence_of_saudi_role_in.html