Why is the FBI covering up for 911 Saudi jihadists?

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There is a jawdropping expose in the Miami Herald today. Why has the full truth about Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 attacks not yet been told? And why is the FBI working so furiously to make sure the true story never makes the light of day?

Thanks to the dogged pursuit by Broward Bulldog.org of these documents under the Freedom of Information act, the release shows “information contained in the documents flatly contradicts prior statements by FBI agents in Miami and Tampa who have said the investigation found no evidence connecting the al-Hijjis to the hijackers or the 9/11 plot.”
Read April 16, 2002 report linking family to 9/11 terrorists

Read FBI documents released to BrowardBulldog.org
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Who are they working for, anyway?  Read the entire article — it’s astounding and deeply disturbing.

“FBI report: Florida family had ties to people linked to 9/11 attacks” Miami Herald (thanks to Dr. Andrew Bostom)

A Saudi family who “fled” their Sarasota area home weeks before 9/11 had “many connections” to “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001,
Abdulazizaccording to newly released FBI records.

One partially declassified document, marked “secret,” lists three of those individuals and ties them to the Venice, Fla., flight school where suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi trained. Accomplice
Ziad Jarrah took flying lessons at another school a block away.

Atta and al-Shehhi were at the controls of the jetliners that slammed into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, killing nearly 3,000 people. Jarrah was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania.

The names, addresses and dates of birth of the three individuals tied to the flight school were blanked out before the records were released to BrowardBulldog.org amid ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation.

The information in the documents runs counter to previous FBI statements. It also adds to concerns raised by official investigations but never
fully explored, that the full truth about Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 attacks has not yet been told.

National security and other reasons are cited for numerous additional deletions scattered across the 31 released pages. Four more pages were withheld in their entirety.

The records cast new light on one of the remaining unresolved mysteries regarding Florida’s many connections to the 9/11 attacks: What went on
before the attacks at 4224 Escondito Cir., the home of Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his family?

The documents are the first released by the FBI about its once-secret probe in Sarasota. Information contained in the documents flatly contradicts prior statements by FBI agents in Miami and Tampa who have said the investigation found no evidence connecting the al-Hijjis to the hijackers or the 9/11 plot.

Details about the al-Hijji family and the Sarasota investigation first came to light in a story published simultaneously by BrowardBulldog.org and The Miami Herald on Sept. 8, 2011.

The story told how concerned residents in the gated community of Prestancia tipped the FBI, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, to the al-Hijjis’ sudden departure in late August 2001. The family left behind three cars, clothes, furniture, diapers, toys, food and other items.

The story also reported that a counterterrorism officer and Prestancia’s former administrator, Larry Berberich, both said an analysis of gatehouse security records — log books and snapshots of license tags — had determined that vehicles either driven by or carrying several of the future hijackers had visited the al-Hijji home.

Phone records revealed similar, though indirect, ties to the hijackers, said the counterterrorism officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The FBI records as released do not identify al-Hijji or anyone else by name, citing various exemptions that protect persons’ names in law enforcement records. The names are apparent, however, because the documents describe unique, known events and were released in specific response to a request for information about the investigation at the al-Hijji residence.

An April 16, 2002, FBI report says “repeated citizen calls” led to an inspection of the home by agents of the Southwest Florida Domestic Security Task Force.

“It was discovered that the [family name deleted] left their residence quickly and suddenly. They left behind valuable items, clothing, jewelry and food in a manner that indicated they fled unexpectedly without prior preparation or knowledge,”

the report says. “Further investigation of the [name deleted] family revealed many connections between the [name deleted] and individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.”

The report lists three of those individuals. While
their identities remain secret, the first person on the list was described as “a [name deleted] family member.”

That person and a second individual were said to be flight students at Huffman Aviation — the flight school at the Venice Municipal Airport attended by hijackers Atta and al-Shehhi.

The third person on the list “lived with flight students at Huffman Aviation” and was “arrested numerous times by the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office,” the report says.

The next paragraph, which ends the report, is blanked out entirely.

A notice on the document indicates the censored information regarding the three individuals associated with the terrorist attacks is scheduled to remain classified for another 25 years — until March 14, 2038.

The FBI released the records as a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by BrowardBulldog.org inches toward trial this summer in federal court in
Fort Lauderdale.
The suit was filed in September after the FBI rejected both a request for its investigative records and an appeal of that request.

Thomas Julin, the news site’s attorney, called the FBI’s release of records that it had previously determined to be exempt from disclosure “highly unusual.”

“The government initially took the position that it had no documents. It hasn’t explained why things changed,” said Julin, of the Miami law firm Hunton & Williams.

Miami Assistant U.S. Attorney Carole Fernandez, who represents the FBI, declined comment.

The released FBI records are in two tiers: reports and other material written in 2001-2002, and memos, letters and email that followed publication of the first story about the matter in September 2011.

A number of pages recount information provided to the FBI by mail carriers and others, including a Sept. 18, 2001, observation that the al-Hijji family appeared to have “left in a hurry.”

A Sept. 25, 2001, report talks of bank records that agents had obtained. The report was referred to the counterterrorism division’s Usama Bin Laden Unit/Radical Fundamentalist Unit.

One of the reports written in September 2011, after the existence of the Sarasota investigation was revealed, discusses briefly the unnamed “family member” who took flight lessons at Huffman Aviation.

The family member “was interviewed multiple times after 9/11 and identified Atta and al-Shehhi as individuals [phrase deleted] flight training at Huffman. However, investigation did not reveal any other connection between [name deleted] and the hijackers and the 9/11 plot,” the report says.

FBI reports about those interviews were not made public.

Al-Hijji, who following 9/11 worked for the Saudi oil company Aramco in England, could not be reached by phone or email last week. Aramco staff said
there was no longer anyone by that name in the London office.

Last year, al-Hijji told a reporter his family did not depart their Sarasota home in haste but left so he could take a job with Aramco in Saudi Arabia. He denied involvement in the 9/11 plot, which he called “a crime against the USA and all humankind.”

The FBI documents also disclose that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., queried Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller about the Sarasota investigation six days after its existence was disclosed in Broward Bulldog/Miami Herald story. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote Leahy that the FBI’s response to the 9/11 attacks “comprehensive and unprecedented,” and assured him that agents found no evidence of contact between the hijackers and the al-Hijjis.

Similarly, Weich denied an assertion by then Sen. Bob Graham of Florida that the FBI had not turned over its Sarasota records to Congress. The bureau, he stated, made all of its records available and suggested they may have been overlooked by investigators.

The documents the FBI has released do not mention other known aspects of the Sarasota investigation, including information provided to the FBI by al-Hijji’s
former friend, Wissam Hammoud.

Hammoud, 47, is a federal prisoner classified by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons as an “International Terrorist Associate.” He is serving a 21-year sentence for weapons violations and attempting to kill a federal agent and a witness in a previous case against him.

Florida Department of Law Enforcement documents
obtained by BrowardBulldog.org state that shortly after his 2004 arrest, Hammoud told agents that al-Hijji considered Osama bin Laden a “hero,” may have known some of the hijackers, and once introduced Hammoud to fugitive al-Qaeda leader and ex-Miramar resident Adnan Shukrijumah.

When reached last year, al-Hijji acknowledged having known Hammoud well. He did not, however, respond to a question about Hammoud’s allegations and said Shukrijumah’s name did not “ring a bell.”

What the FBI did about Hammoud’s allegations is not known.

Other FBI documents about Sarasota are known to exist, but were not released, including a report Graham says he read last year but can’t discuss because it is classified.

The Bulldog’s FOIA lawsuit asks U.S. District Judge William Zloch to order the FBI to produce all records of its Sarasota investigation, including the records seen by Graham.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/16/v-fullstory/3345954/fbi-report-florida-family-had.html#storylink=cpy

 

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Laura
Laura
10 years ago

It stand to reason that they are also going to cover for the saudi connection in the Boston bombing.

Cate
Cate
10 years ago

Laura – my thoughts exactly.

Cate
Cate
10 years ago

I personally think the FBI, and probably other government organizations, have some “arrangement” with the Saudis that lets them off the hook for the majority of things they might do in this country.

aviva
aviva
10 years ago

i would recommend reading ‘the secret war against the jews’ by john loftus. they protect saudi arabia because of the oil. a sad fact is that america is dependent on saudi oil. the quicker we find other energy sources and lose that dependence, the better off we’ll be.

Judi
Judi
10 years ago

No doubt the stooge in the WH has a hand in the cover-up too

Liz Wagner
Liz Wagner
10 years ago

The U.S. currently needs Saudi oil but, as Mitchell Bard explains in his fascinating book, THE ARAB LOBBY, the Saudis need the money and taxes connected to oil sales just as much, if not more. (Except for Wahabbism and terrorism, oil is all those people have in terms of exports to sell.) The U.S. also military bases in Saudi Arabia, too. By now, however, it’s clear that what the American people are giving to the Saudis is not worth what we’re getting in return: terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, attacks on free speech, near-complete corruption and collapse of American principles of individual liberty, an Executive Branch and security apparatus that stopped working for the American people a very long time ago, just to cite a few examples. Ending Saudi influence in the U.S. is a must, but lord knows how it can be done!

asdf
asdf
10 years ago

To say nothing of these guys: Look at photos on Shoebat’s site. The guy on the right is almost certainly Alharbi. And the other two do not look like they’re there for the marathon. One has a black backpack.
“…six members of the Alharbi clan are with Al-Qaeda and five were detained at Gitmo, to include one on the list of six). These authorities are, however, denying that Alharbi had anything to do with the bombings.”
http://shoebat.com/2013/04/17/innocent-saudi-spotted-with-two-other-saudis-at-marathon/

Debi Brand
Debi Brand
10 years ago

Why? Because far too many of us remain happy fools when it comes to Islam. Our Government knows that, the devotees to Allah and his Messenger note it also. So together, as fitting, they lie, Cover up. Feed us the “truth” they know we can handle.

Debi Brand
Debi Brand
10 years ago

Indeed.
Good grief…What further connection do we need beyond the trodden path of their Guide (Muhammad), and their Allah provided guidance, the “Qur’an”?

Face_The_Truth
Face_The_Truth
10 years ago

Saudi Arabia is America’s ally.
According to the Council on America-Islam Relation, America and Islam are related and, therefore, America must be Islamized in a slow, but steady process.
There are people who tend to think that America treats Islam and Saudi Arabia differently because of American petroleum dependency. That line of thinking is not completely accurate when one takes into consideration American government’s refusal to tap into vast petroleum resources that America already has.
Islam is rooted in Saudi Arabia. Muhammad — the messenger of Allah — was born and buried in Saudi Arabia.
And, we find, American government loves Islam with a steadfast tradition from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Baraq H. Obama, Jr.
America spends billions of dollars annually to promote and preserve Islam — an ideology — that kills American interests whenever Muslims get an upper hand.

Sarah
Sarah
10 years ago

Every arm of our government has become a pathetic, if not dangerous, example of ineptitude….Just heard the tail end of a special ABC report saying an arrest was imminent (if it had not already occured), but what got me was the comment that the FBI is eager to get streets now blocked off opened as soon as possible. Huh? Isn’t their job to do a meticulous, thorough investigation that takes as long as necessary?

Debi Brand
Debi Brand
10 years ago

Yes Sir, F-T-T.
But please, don’t trouble us with facts…

Tayeb Kasim
Tayeb Kasim
10 years ago

Covering up? Covering up what exactly? these people may have been friends, family etc, that doesnt make them guilty of any crime, guilt by association doesnt wash pammy. maybe in your warped hate filled bigotted mind. But not to most sane people.

Cate
Cate
10 years ago

Pamela didn’t write the article. It was reported by the Miami Herald.
Remember the adage, if it walks and talks like a ducks, it’s most likely a duck. So – crawl back under your Islamic rock in whatever Islamic h*llhole you hail from Tayeb, and people who have more than 1/2 a brain cell firing will actually do some real work.

Face_The_Truth
Face_The_Truth
10 years ago

Looks like Muhammad bin-Qasim is quite agitated with Ms. Pamela Geller!!!
Muhammad Qasim is now fired up and ready to go…

dbl action
dbl action
10 years ago

The cover up goes all the wayyyy back to the attack in Oklahoma City.. pick up a copy of ‘The Third Terrorist’ by Jayna Davis.. I smell something deeply rotten & how it will all play out is anybody’s guess! If it weren’t for courageous work by patriots like Pamela & others who knows, but I see sharia with a leftwing spin coming our way.

Sarah
Sarah
10 years ago

A bit off topic, but still related, is this inspiring text of what the judge said at the sentencing of the shoe bomber:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/08/judge-william-young-sentencing-the-shoe-bomber/

InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
10 years ago

Tayeb, learn to read first before you play the Islamic victim card. This story originates from the newspapers, simpleton.

InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
10 years ago

All this makes the release of the first suspect -which wealth Saudi ties- all the more amazing. Or, maybe, not amazing. I would not be surprised at all if Big Zero has a hand in this.

yonjuro
yonjuro
10 years ago

On 9/12/01 mecca should have been turned into a smoking ruin.

Sarah
Sarah
10 years ago

Walid Shoebat has quite a bit on this topic
http://shoebat.com/2013/04/17/innocent-saudi-spotted-with-two-other-saudis-at-marathon/
And Legal Insurrection ilnked to this sleuthing
http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA/noscript
While The Blaze sent info to the FBI about what could be something or nothing
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/17/blaze-reader-finds-curious-pre-blast-video-from-boston-marathon-weve-sent-it-to-the-fbi/

Jeff
Jeff
10 years ago

Bush family was and is in bed with Saudi family……..they fooled Amercans
and sent troops to wat to get rid of saddam cooking up story about WMD when
there was none at instance of cheney and his cronies hoping to get oil contracts for their companies…………..after wasting over 4000 lives of american soldierrs in a futile and useless was that cost $4 trillion not counting ongoing medical cost of soldiers suffering from debilitating trauma and psysochological diseases as a result of this vainglorious lunatic misadventure what did America get ? Nothing.
Oil contracts were won by chinese , russians and french . America got screwed and
arms manufacturers made out like bandicoots.

InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
10 years ago

Jeff, every military analyst with his/her salt will tell you that chemical and biological weapons are WMD’s. Both were found. Its also well known that Saddam used chemical weapons against his own population. There was every reason to get rid of that bastard.
The US didn’t get screwed: the US population screwed up when they elected a complete imbecile.

InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
10 years ago

“with” should be “worth”. Sorry for that.

f
f
10 years ago

Here we go again. The FBI were going to speak this evening, then they weren’t, then they were, and now they aren’t. Fgs, I have never ever come across this type of behaviour on such a serious topic.

Cate
Cate
10 years ago

Indeed! I couldn’t agree more.

Cate
Cate
10 years ago

I think something is going on behind the scenes. I want the whackjobs who did this to get taken down. And that may be why there’s some hesitation to speak.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
10 years ago

Everyone seems to have forgotten that 16 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi. And now the Boston bombing; how much damage to our country are we going to allow these bastards to do?

S. Klein
S. Klein
10 years ago

You did not address Jeff’s point that the Bush family is in bed (financially) with the Saudi royal family. I voted for Bush in 2000; sadly. After the 9/11 attacks I began doing my homework on Bush, his and his father’s lucrative relationship with the Saudis. Bush covered for his Saudi friends after the September attacks. Saudis up to the highest level of government were helping finance Osama bin Laden / al-Qaeda. Bush redacted some 28 pages of the Congressional 9/11 report that dealt with Saudi complicity. Bush covered for his Saudi friends, not to mention for Islam. Is it any wonder Americans then elected this dangerous Muslim-born president. “Islam means peace.”
“The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.” Remember IFL?

Charles
Charles
10 years ago

Don’t forget that several US administrations have called, and still call, Saudis our friends.
With friends like those ….

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