Keep An Eye On This Name: Omar al-Bayoumi.

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Not sure what the Saudi leadership knew, but Omar al-Bayoumi was working for Saudi Intelligence:

The chilling pre-9/11 videos that victims’ families say will finally prove Saudi culpability in court

Two videos kept out of sight for decades could be the key to persuading a court next month that Saudi Arabia was behind the Sept. 11th attacks, and that victims’ families have found enough ev…

nypost.com

The new information is he's on video with Al Qaeda operatives "playing paintball" :

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/07/september-11-suspect-paintballing-future-al-qaeda-chief/

The paintballing video was filmed in 1997 or 1998 and shows Awlaki practising combat and wearing military fatigues.
Some of the men are seen charging into battle shouting “allahu akbar” in what FBI agents were later told was training for jihad.The footage of Bayoumi embracing Awlaki was taken in January 1998 and shows the cleric, who was killed by a CIA drone strike in 2011, smiling warmly.Despite this, during remote questioning for the lawsuit in 2021, Bayoumi claimed he had never met Awlaki.Ten days after 9/11, Bayoumi was arrested in Birmingham, where he was living with his family, by the Metropolitan Police’s Anti-Terror Branch special operations team.

He was held for seven days, and officers found a trove of evidence at his home, including the names of more than two dozen Saudi government officials.

Since I'm talking shop, might want to look into our old friend, Abu Zubaydah. He's still at Gitmo, never been charged with anything (officially), but we're never releasing him, or trying him. When we caught him in 2002, we shuffled him through a number black sites, initially fooling him into believing he'd been captured by the Saudis. He sang like a bird, naming a string of Saudis who had, at the very least, knowledge of the 9-11 operation. We made an official enquiry to the Saudis about the names he mentioned, and the Saudis seemed to have cleaned house:

July 22, 2002 — Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, 43, a nephew of King Fahd and the owner of War Emblem, which had won the Kentucky Derby three months earlier, dies in a Riyadh hospital, reportedly of a heart attack.

July 23 — Prince Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki al-Saud, 41, dies in a one-car crash on the way to Ahmed's funeral.

Days later — Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, 25, dies on a 55-mile drive east of Riyadh. The Royal Court's official cause of death: “thirst”

February 20, 2003 — Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir dies when his recently inspected aircraft blew up in clear weather over the Northwest Frontier, killing his wife and most of his senior staff

The question at this point isn't if Saudis were involved, but to what extent they assisted beyond financing the operation(s). Did the Saudi government kill these guys out of retribution, or to cut off an evidence chain?

In 2005 the CIA destroyed the interrogation tapes of Zubaydah, and if there are transcripts, nobody outside of Langley has seen them. Anyhoo, as we near another anniversary I'm sure the FBI and CIA would like to thank 9-11 Truthers for keeping the heat off their backs for the past 25 years.

 

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Landlady to 9/11 hijackers reveals their links to alleged Saudi spy​

In his account, Bayoumi's association with the future hijackers was fleeting. But his story does not match Ratchford's version of events.

“I know that's what he said, and I know that's ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊," she says.

Before he brought the hijackers to her office, Ratchford says Bayoumi had asked her several times about finding an apartment for two people.

"I would tell him what would be available and he'd be like, 'oh no, no, I want that one'," she says. "He wanted something near him, and he was hoping for the least expensive place."

She also contradicts Bayoumi's claim that he hardly saw the hijackers after he secured their apartment, explaining that she had seen them together over the weeks that followed. On one occasion, the three of them had come to her office for tea and cookies.

"It's not like he just found them an apartment and never talked to them again," she says, adding that the three men "were definitely friendly"

Landlady to 9/11 hijackers reveals their links to alleged Saudi spy

A woman who rented out homes to two al-Qaeda members speaks publicly for the first time - to the BBC.

www.bbc.com

 

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Although I’m not sure about that Abu Zubadayh information. He was not in fact a major operational figure in al Qaeda, he was a logistics and travel facilitator who ran a guest-house in Pakistan for foreign jihadists on their way to the training camps in Afghanistan. From what I’ve read he doesn’t seem to have had any foreknowledge about 9/11, let alone any follow-on operations (which was the CIA and Bush administration’s justification for torturing him—the “ticking time bomb” scenario. I guess some people had been watching too much “24”).

So I’m skeptical of claims that he’d have been in a position to know, let alone pass that tightly held knowledge on. Al Qaeda were nothing if not incredibly tight-lipped and “need to know” about the details of the Planes Operations, even if a lot of people both in the jihadist movement and in various governments around the world (including the US) knew or suspected that something big was coming in summer or fall 2001.

As for the three Saudi princes who died (the fourth guy listed there was Pakistani), Prince Ahmed bin Salman and his older brother a year prior both died of heart attacks, which isn’t surprising considering that their father King Salman has a history of heart problems (yes, their younger half-brother is MBS). And the other two princes dying in a car accident and in the desert? Could be suspicious, could also be typical Saudi royal recklessness/stupidity—the kind of stupidity that led some of these jokers to donate to al Qaeda, come to think of it…

 

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The Saudis have always been good at eliminating internal problems. And Zubadayh must have hit a nerve in Riyad. Plus, why put up a fight when we showed up to grab him? And we're not letting him go.

 

[Allen773]

Meanwhile, the FBI informant whom Hazmi and Midhar were living with also knew Bayoumi and several others employed by the Saudi government whom the 9/11 families allege supported the hijackers as part of the Saudi government’s support for Wahhabism overseas, and who themselves were ideologically sympathetic to al Qaeda’s anti-American, anti-Western agenda. A couple of these officials stayed in the FBI informant’s house in San Diego a year before the hijackers showed up.

Some investigators suspect said FBI informant was a double agent. Reportedly he passed away within the last few years—he was an old man. It’s likely we’ll never know.

The FBI, CIA, and Clinton and Bush administrations, and the commitment to the dubious US-Saudi alliance have always been the actual areas of scandal re: 9/11, along with the broader fact that most people did not take terrorism seriously. Not to mention we didn’t want to inhibit air travel or inconvenience the airline industry. There are genuine issues here.

Unfortunately the 9/11 Truthers decided to focus on Controlled Demolitions and Dancing Israelis, and even “No Plane” insanity. The US and Saudi governments thank them for their service.

 

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To mark the anniversary, the CIA just dumped 71 declassified documents online:

71 Declassified 9/11 related President's Daily Brief products - CIA

www.cia.gov

They are all President's Daily Briefs, and they date back to 1998.

This one from December, 1998 is titled, Bin Laden Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft, and Other Attacks:

https://www.cia.gov/static/12-04-1998-Bin-Ladin-Preparing-To-Hijack-US-Aircraft-and-Other-Attacks.pdf

Obviously there are no operational details in any of these reports, but it is clear bin Ladin was on the CIA's radar. Of course it would be helpful to see the rest of the intelligence behind these briefings in order to get a better picture of what CIA knew, and who its sources were. But I suspect that will be another decade before those documents see the light of day.

 

[LSSBB]

I recall the December 1998 warning by the CIA was alluded to in Ricard Clarke's "Against All Enemies"

 

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Also mentioned in The Looming Towers, Pete Blaber's The Men, the Mission, and Me.