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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- Questions over Saudi link to terror attacks
By Marianne Brun-Rovet and Edward Alden in Washington
Financial Times, July 25 2003![]()
The September 11 hijackers received foreign-government support while they were in the US plotting the attacks on New York and Washington, the leader of a congressional inquiry charged yesterday.
The conclusion, which is strongly hinted at in the declassified parts of the inquiry's 900-page report released yesterday, will raise new questions about the role of Saudi Arabia in particular. The Bush administration insisted on deleting a 28-page section of the report that focused on the link to foreign governments.
Senator Bob Graham, the former Democratic intelligence committee chairman who led the investigation, said the hijackers "received, during most of this time, significant assistance from a foreign government which further facilitated their ability to be so lethal". He would not identify the government. The report also contains evidence that US intelligence and the Federal Bureau of Investigation knew more about some of the hijackers' activities than has been revealed.
While the administration has insisted that the plot could not have been unravelled from the information available, a congressional official said: "There was no smoking gun in the sense of all the details and the specifics in one piece of intelligence . . . But that is not the same as saying that this attack could not have been prevented."
Despite the deletions, the report contains new evidence of Saudi Arabia's possible role in supporting and shielding terrorists before the attacks. It quotes a senior US official and others that the Saudi government had consistently refused to co-operate on earlier US investigations involving Osama bin Laden.
It also contains evidence of a more direct link to the attacks, particularly about the activities of Omar Al-Bayoumi, a Saudi national suspected of having ties with his country's government.
He played a vital role in establishing Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, the hijackers, when they arrived in San Diego before the attacks. US intelligence agencies knew as early as 1999 the two were linked with al-Qaeda, and they attended a CIA-monitored high-level meeting of al-Qaeda operatives in Malaysia in January, 2000.
The report also revealed another serious US intelligence failure, before the attacks, which it called "perhaps the intelligence community's best chance to unravel the September 11 plot".
The FBI had recruited an informant in San Diego with close links to Mr al-Hazmi and Mr al-Mihdhar, as well as with a third hijacker, Hani Hanjour. However, the FBI did not act on his information because the CIA had not told the FBI of the pair's suspected links to al-Qaeda.
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