{"id":2570,"date":"2008-02-29T19:13:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T19:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/fbi-documents-contradict-911-commission-report\/2570\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T19:13:29","slug":"fbi-documents-contradict-911-commission-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/fbi-documents-contradict-911-commission-report\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI documents contradict 9\/11 Commission report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larisa Alexandrovna<\/a><\/p>\n

Who is Bayoumi?<\/h3>\n

Much has been reported about Omar al-Bayoumi and his alleged relationship with the government of Saudi Arabia. In his recent book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9\/11 Investigation<\/em>, New York Times<\/em> reporter Phillip Shenon discusses at length the questions surrounding Bayoumi and his ties to the Saudi government.<\/p>\n

\u201cBayoumi seemed clearly to be working for some part of the Saudi government,\u201d Shenon wrote on page 52. \u201cHe entered the United States as a business student and had lived San Diego since 1996. He was on the payroll of an aviation contractor to the Saudi government, paid about $2,800 a month, but apparently did no work for the company.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, Bayoumi was an employee of the Saudi defense contractor Dallah Avco. According to a 2002 Newsweek<\/em> article<\/a> about Bayoumi, Dallah Avco is \u201can aviation-services company with extensive contracts with the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation, headed by Prince Sultan, the father of the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newsweek points to another connection between Bayoumi and Bandar: \u201cAbout two months after al-Bayoumi began aiding Alhazmi and Almihdhar, NEWSWEEK has learned, al-Bayoumi’s wife began receiving regular stipends, often monthly and usually around $2,000, totaling tens of thousands of dollars. The money came in the form of cashier’s checks, purchased from Washington’s Riggs Bank by Princess Haifa bint Faisal, the daughter of the late King Faisal and wife of Prince Bandar, the Saudi envoy who is a prominent Washington figure and personal friend of the Bush family. The checks were sent to a woman named Majeda Ibrahin Dweikat, who in turn signed over many of them to al-Bayoumi’s wife (and her friend), Manal Ahmed Bagader. The Feds want to know: Was this well-meaning charity gone awry? Or some elaborate money-laundering scheme? A scam? Or just a coincidence?\u201d<\/p>\n

According to then-Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), who served as a co-chair of the 9\/11 Congressional inquiry that preceded the 9\/11 Commission, during the period of Alhazmi and Almihdhar\u2019s arrival in the US, Bayoumi had an \u201cunusually large number of telephone calls with Saudi government officials in both Los Angeles and Washington.\u201d (Graham and Nussbaum, 2004, pp. 168-169)<\/p>\n

Bayoumi moved to London in 2001 and lived there until his arrest immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks. Following his release, Bayoumi returned to Saudi Arabia, where he was interviewed in October 2003 by the Executive Director of the 9\/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, and Senior Counsel Dieter Snell.<\/p>\n

Snell did not respond to requests for comment; Zeilkow could not be reached.<\/p>\n

According to Shenon, several staff members working under Snell, \u201cfelt strongly that they had demonstrated a close Saudi government connection,\u201d based on \u201cexplosive material\u201d on al-Bayoumi and Fahad al-Thumairy, a \u201cshadowy Saudi diplomat in Los Angeles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shenon recounts how Snell, in preparing his team\u2019s account of the plot, purged almost all of the most serious allegations against the Saudi government and moved the \u201cexplosive\u201d supporting evidence to the small print of the report\u2019s footnotes. (The Commission<\/em>, pp. 398-399)<\/p>\n

Two commission investigators who were working on documenting the 9\/11 plot, Michael Jacobsen and Raj De, argued that it was \u201ccrazy\u201d to insist on 100 percent proof when it came to al-Qaeda or the Saudi regime. In the end, however, and with a publishing deadline looming, Snell\u2019s caution and Zelikow\u2019s direction buried apparently promising leads.<\/p>\n

In similar fashion, 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry Report produced by Congress — an entire chapter outlining evidence of Saudi and other state sponsorship — were redacted.<\/p>\n

Baer has additional questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsidering that the main body of evidence came from tortured confessions, it’s still not entirely clear to me what happened on 9\/11,\u201d Baer said. \u201cAmong other questions [I have]: Why did [Prince] Bandar’s wife sent money to Bayoumi? What are Bayoumi\u2019s links to the Sultan? How were the 15 Saudis [among the 19 hijackers] selected to carry out the attack? Who fed the credit card used by Abu Zubayda? What happened to Abu Zubayda’s telephone bills? Who was he calling in the U.S? None of these questions are unreasonable nor would answering them violate intelligence sources and methods.”<\/p>\n

In a recent review<\/a> of Shenon\u2019s book, former Democratic senator and 9\/11 Commission member Bob Kerrey called on Congress to investigate alleged Saudi ties.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress should demand direct access to those who organized the attacks; our indirect interviews were at best inadequate,\u201d Kerrey wrote. \u201cAnd Congress should pursue [the] question of whether the Saudi government aided the conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerrey declined to comment for this article. Other Commission members did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Larisa Alexandrovna Who is Bayoumi? Much has been reported about Omar al-Bayoumi and his alleged relationship with the government of Saudi Arabia. In his recent book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9\/11 Investigation, New York Times reporter Phillip Shenon discusses at length the questions surrounding Bayoumi and his ties to the Saudi government. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-911-truth","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}