EXCLUSIVE: FBI accidentally reveals name of Saudi official suspected of directing support for 9/11 h

Thanks to the person who made this 'mistake.'

guys spend per capita on intelligence and security. I don't know, but I bet it is considerable, maybe even more than we do. And every one of their important agents has Mossad up their butts! The Saudi's involved and the money flying around and they didn't know anything? Yeah right.

The Minneapolis FBI Special Agent said it was a Saudi Operation .

The guy connected to 9/11 reported directly to the Saudi known as Bandar Bush because of his closeness to the Bush family? I don't remember even seeing a conspiracy theory springing up claiming this.

If the connection is proved true, what might it say about the Bush family's involvement in the attack?

But we have even bigger fish to fry these days because we're not talking about a presidential family's friendship with an alleged link in the attacks on 9/11, we're talking about a president who was and is, himself, involved in a continuing attack on America, its constitution, its principles, its position as a world leader.

Pre-9/11 Ties Haunt Saudis as New Accusations Surface

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/world/middleeast/pre-9-11-ties-haunt-saudis-as-new-accusations-surface.html

The investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi, would most likely have turned up such high-level support if it existed, said F. Gregory Gause III, a professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A & M University, who studies Saudi Arabia.

Among the donors Mr. Moussaoui said were in a Qaeda database that he helped create were Prince Turki al-Faisal, then the head of Saudi intelligence, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington. Both held high positions in the very government that Al Qaeda was by the late 1990s seeking to destroy, Mr. Gause said.

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Prince Turki now heads a research institute in Riyadh and travels often to the United States, where he meets with officials. Prince Bandar was recently relieved of his post as the head of Saudi Arabia’s National Security Council. Prince Turki did not respond to requests for comment, and Prince Bandar could not be reached for comment.

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Mr. Moussaoui is a prolific writer of letters to judges, and it was his letter offering to testify in a long-running lawsuit of 9/11 survivors against Saudi Arabia that led to his deposition last October. Two weeks later, he wrote a federal judge in Oklahoma accusing Prince Turki of instructing a Saudi official to help the future 9/11 hijackers. He also claimed that Prince Bandar’s wife, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, “gave me money” and sent a large amount of money to the Saudi hijackers.





His wife sent a shedload of money that ended up with some of the terrorists, but of course, they all claim they did not know.

Prince Bandar implicated

Bandar had a very personal reason to be sensitive to the Inquiry’s work. The unclassified version of the Inquiry Report, and press leaks of the content of 28 then still classified pages, implicated Prince Bandar himself, and his wife, in payments made to Osama Basnan, a U.S.-based Saudi suspected of being part of the hijackers’ support system.

Basnan was close to another Saudi, Omar al-Bayoumi, who had befriended 9/11 hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi when they arrived in the U.S. in early 2000. According to FBI files, Bayoumi provided the pair with substantial assistance – helping with their move to San Diego, allowing them to stay in his home, and co-signing the lease on their apartment. He even threw them a welcome party.

Bayoumi also had extensive contacts with Saudi government entities in the U.S. including at least three individuals at his country’s embassy in Washington. He received a salary as an employee of the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority, but did no work for it. His income reportedly increased substantially when the future hijackers arrived in California – and dropped when they left. The money trail also led to Basnan, who caught the attention of investigators after having bragged to an FBI source that he “did more for the hijackers than Bayoumi did.” In a search of the Basnan residence, Bureau agents discovered thirty-one canceled checks totalling more than $70,000, made out to Basnan’s wife and drawn on the account of Prince Bandar’s wife Princess Haifa.

Other records revealed that Basnan and his wife each received at least one check from Ambassador Bandar himself. Several of the checks made out to Mrs. Basnan found their way to Bayoumi’s wife, who tried to deposit them in her own bank account. Though the 9/11 Commission knew all this when it interviewed Bandar, it did not question the Ambassador about it.

I had heard rumors of rumors but must have turned my attention to other things at the time of the reports and never got the full picture. It doesn't mean that Bush, Jr., was involved in 9/11, of course, but it suggests that his friendship with Bandar was more important to him than the 3,000+ people he seems to have had an indirect hand in murdering.

Important thing to remember when we score the game of vile presidents. Bush, Jr. killed more than 3,000 Americans in his and Cheney's illegal war in Iraq and -- now I understand -- seems to have turned a cold heart to the 3,000+ people, mostly Americans, murdered on 9/11. But Trump, of course, has Covid-19 squarely on his shoulders, and while not every resultant death can be laid at his feet, most of them can. So, Trump was indirect. he didn't kill, he "allowed to die" 10s of 1,000s of Americans. Bush didn't allow the 9/11 murder victims to die, he merely turned his back on them in favor of his friend -- but he did kill the 3,000+ Americans he sent to Iraq in order to make Halliburton and other private contractors even wealthier than they were before the invasion.

I have not forgotten how evidence was suppressed and "ignored" in the aftermath.

about Moussaoui prior to 9/11 and were ignored

I don't see a mention of his name anywhere in this thread

"Mussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah, a mid-level Saudi Foreign Ministry official who was assigned to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., in 1999 and 2000."

#newrostrong

When did this Saudi leave the country after 911? The royal family was scrambling out even during the no-fly period. Was this guy too??

oh, and for some background on bandar bush & the cigar smoking afternoon two days after 9/11, here's a 2004 guardian piece:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/11/september11.usa1

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so now i'm wondering who hired that guy. bandar? i mean, how was he chosen for the job at the saudi embassy?

To the Iraq War, especially wingers. Somehow, in their minds, Saddam Hussein caused 911.

They swallowed all the lies that took half a million lives and cost almost $2 trillion.
And they keep electing liars.

From an MSNBC article written in 1998:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3340101/t/bin-laden-comes-home-roost/#.XrubumhKjD4

Thank you for the refresher. 👍

https://www.amazon.com/Prelude-Terror-Americas-Private-Intelligence/dp/0786717661
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