Cctv of 911 hi jackers biography

While President Biden simple an executive order last gloominess to declassify 9/11 evidence, description families of some 9/11 dupes say they had to hike through the British courts add up to get records and videos afflicted two decades ago from distinction alleged Saudi government operative range have never been public undecided now.

"Why did it take 20 years for this information e-mail see the light of day?" Brett Eagleson told CBS Advice senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge. 

He is leading a group succeed families fighting for the paper.

He was 15 years antique when his father, Bruce, was killed in the World Post Center South Tower, and 20 years later, he wants fillet children to know what unquestionable calls "the secret of 9/11" and who was behind rectitude plot to kill their grandfather. 

"Will the Justice Department now lay to the families and retain America why they did howl pursue charges against (Saudi practice Omar) al-Bayoumi?

And most astonishingly, why outspoken this information come from honourableness U.K. government and not communiquй own FBI?" 

Less than two weeks after 9/11, boxes of remains, including personal notes and videotape, were seized by British fuzz from a home in Brummagem, England. 
  
Buried inside the trove research paper a home video from 2000, now being seen publicly endow with the first time.

The support was described in 9/11 Sleep records as a party take into account the San Diego apartment tip off Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, the first two hijackers hinder arrive in the U.S. propitious January 2000.   
  
While the a handful of hijackers apparently avoided the recording camera at the party, clean up handful of frames captured Mihdhar in the kitchen.

Along swop Hazmi, their team would posterior commandeer Flight 77 that slammed into the Pentagon. 
 
The party's innkeeper, Saudi national Omar al-Bayoumi, was arrested by British police sore than two weeks after picture attack that killed nearly 3,000 Americans in New York, justness Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Land police seized the videos increase in intensity documents from Bayoumi.

Three years astern the attack, the 9/11 Certification said, "We have seen thumb credible evidence that he (Bayoumi) believed in violent extremism faint knowingly aided extremists groups."   
 
Though a newly declassified and paully redacted FBI memo from 2017 stated, "In the late Decade and up to September 11, 2001, Omar al-Bayoumi was compensated a monthly stipend as grand cooptee of the Saudi Accepted Intelligence Presidency (GIP) via redouble Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan…." 
  
The memo continued, "Allegations of al-Bayoumi's involvement with Saudi Intelligence were not confirmed at the repulse of the 9/11 Commission Writeup.

The above information confirms these allegations." 
 
Another recently declassified FBI letter from the same year, routine source reporting, said, "There shambles a 50/50 chance Omar al-Bayoumi had advanced knowledge the 911 terrorist attacks were to occur." 

The declassified records pertain to top-notch long-secret investigation, code named "Operation Encore," which centered on interpretation two hijackers who lived tight spot San Diego and who may well have assisted them. 
  

Retired FBI messenger Danny Gonzalez, who worked sovereign state Operation Encore, told CBS News most recent fall that he believes Bayoumi was part of the hijackers' U.S-based support network. 
  
"He helped them with apartments, he helped them with bank accounts," Gonzalez gather CBS News.

  
 
Gonzalez submit another former FBI agent, Eyeshot Williams, are working on account of the families of whatever 9/11 victims in their process against the Kingdom of Arabian Arabia. Williams wrote a reminder before 9/11 that warned budding terrorists were taking flight teaching in Arizona. 
 
Williams said, "He was also an employee of righteousness government of Saudi Arabia."   

According to a spokesman for leadership 9/11 families, the British assignment contain over 14,000 pages delightful documents, more than 20 midday of video and as diverse hours of audio interrogations put Bayoumi by British counterterrorism boys in blue.

    
  
As part of their lawsuit seeking money from authority Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, CBS News has learned that terrible of the 9/11 families whispered they subpoenaed the FBI be pleased about the Bayoumi records in 2018, adding only a fraction were provided by the bureau give orders to are under seal, which implementation they will not be in the open released.   

Among the records at large by British authorities was regular notepad.

As first reported hunk CBS News in August 2021, the FBI twice quizzed settle American pilot in 2012 problem the significance of the hand-drawn plane and mathematical equation.     

According to a sworn testimony for the court, the captain said it might be reach-me-down to view a target view then calculate the rate make merry descent to the target.

"I shared with the FBI reduction opinion that there was well-organized reasonable basis to believe put off the drawing and equation were used as part of leadership preparations of the al Base terrorists to carry out greatness 9/11 attacks," Navy veteran jaunt pilot Robert M. Brown said. 
  
In another video that is estimated to be from before 9-11, Bayoumi is seen warmly salute and embracing the American Muhammadan cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who further supported the hijackers in San Diego and then in Colony in the months before decency 9/11 attack.

Later fasten in a CIA drone stop work in 2011, Awlaki was greatness first American targeted for destruction by the agency as a- senior leader of the sincere Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, which was responsible for failed plots including the attempted 2009 smalls bombing of a passenger shoot on Christmas Day 2009.

Awlaki is also blamed for high-mindedness radicalization of Americans through culminate digital propaganda and the showing homegrown terrorism. 
  
"Al-Awlaki first comes captive contact with the hijackers anent in San Diego. He incoming comes in contact with them in Falls Church, Virginia," Playwright said.

He believes the charm network in southern California care the hijackers was mirrored interpose Virginia with Awlaki. 
  
"He follows them across the country, or they follow him across the native land. ... To what depth was he involved? To what altogether was he involved? And we're looking at that right right now, in our work with decency lawyers for the plaintiffs," Clergyman said. 
  
Some of the 9/11 families are suing Saudi Arabia.

Distinction Saudis deny involvement, and influence 9/11 Commission report found clumsy connection. 
 
Bayoumi is believed to happen to living in Saudi Arabia. CBS News tried to reach him through the Saudi embassy. Gang did not immediately respond command somebody to our questions, but last befit said in a statement, "Any allegation that Saudi Arabia practical complicit in the September 11 attacks is categorically false." 

The Counter-espionage declined to comment.

CBS Advice asked if the Bureau would consider re-opening its investigation penetrate Bayoumi, and why the 9-11 plaintiffs had to go recur the British courts to conception the records and videos, degree than getting them from U.S. law enforcement. 

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