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EXCLUSIVE: In court filing, FBI accidentally
reveals name of Saudi official suspected of
directing support for 9/11 hijackers
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Michael Isikoff Chief Investigative Correspondent,Yahoo News•May 12, 2020
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WASHINGTON The FBI inadvertently revealed one
of the U.S. government’s most sensitive secrets
about the Sept. 11 terror attacks: the identity
of a mysterious Saudi Embassy official in
Washington who agents suspected had directed
crucial support to two of the al-Qaida hijackers.
The disclosure came in a new declaration filed in
federal court by a senior FBI official in
response to a lawsuit brought by families of 9/11
victims that accuses the Saudi government of
complicity in the terrorist attacks.
The declaration was filed last month but unsealed
late last week. According to a spokesman for the
9/11 victims’ families, it represents a major
breakthrough in the long-running case, providing
for the first time an apparent confirmation that
FBI agents investigating the attacks believed
they had uncovered a link between the hijackers
and the Saudi Embassy in Washington.
It’s unclear just how strong the evidence is
against the former Saudi Embassy official it’s
been a subject of sharp dispute within the FBI
for years. But the disclosure, which a senior
U.S. government official confirmed was made in
error, seems likely to revive questions about
potential Saudi links to the 9/11 plot.
It also shines a light on the extraordinary
efforts by top Trump administration officials in
recent months to prevent internal documents about
the issue from ever becoming public.
“This shows there is a complete government
cover-up of the Saudi involvement,” said Brett
Eagleson, a spokesman for the 9/11 families whose
father was killed in the attacks. “It
demonstrates there was a hierarchy of command
that’s coming from the Saudi Embassy to the
Ministry of Islamic Affairs [in Los Angeles] to the hijackers.”
Still, Eagleson acknowledged he was flabbergasted
by the bureau’s slip-up in identifying the Saudi
Embassy official in a public filing. Although
Justice Department lawyers had last September
notified lawyers for the 9/11 families of the
official’s identity, they had done so under a
protective order that forbade the family members from publicly disclosing it.
Now, the bureau itself has named the Saudi
official. “This is a giant screwup,” Eagleson said.
Brett Eagleson and his mother, Gail Eagleson,
with Donald and Melania Trump. (Brett Eagleson)
Brett Eagleson and his mother, Gail Eagleson,
with Donald and Melania Trump. (Brett Eagleson)
After being contacted by Yahoo News on Monday,
Justice Department officials notified the court
and withdrew the FBI’s declaration from the
public docket. “The document was incorrectly
filed in this case,” the docket now reads.
But FBI and Justice Department officials declined
to comment on how the erroneous disclosure had
been made. A Saudi government spokesman,
meanwhile, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The Saudi government has consistently denied any
connection to the 9/11 hijackers, telling the New
York Times and ProPublica in January: “Saudi
Arabia is and has always been a close and
critical ally of the U.S. in the fight against terrorism.”
Ironically, the declaration identifying the Saudi
official in question was intended to support
recent filings by Attorney General William Barr
and acting Director of National Intelligence
Richard Grenell barring the public release of the
Saudi official’s name and all related documents,
concluding they are “state secrets” that, if
disclosed, could cause “significant harm to the national security.”
The declaration was filed by Jill Sanborn, the
assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism
division. Her declaration fleshes out some of the
assertions Barr and Grenell have used in their
filings, arguing that publicly disclosing
internal FBI files including “interview
reports, telephone and bank records, source
reporting documents and foreign government
information” would reveal intelligence sources
and methods of collection and would hamper the
willingness of foreign governments to assist the FBI on sensitive cases.
But while Sanborn’s 40-page declaration blacks
out the Saudi official’s name in most instances,
in one it failed to do so a discrepancy first
noted this week by a Yahoo News reporter.
In a portion describing the material sought by
lawyers for the 9/11 families, Sanborn refers to
a partially declassified 2012 FBI report about an
investigation into possible links between the
al-Qaida terrorists and Saudi government
officials. That probe, the existence of which has
only become public in the past few years,
initially focused on two individuals: Fahad
al-Thumairy, a Saudi Islamic Affairs official and
radical cleric who served as the imam of the King
Fahd Mosque in Los Angeles and Omar al-Bayoumi, a
suspected Saudi government agent who assisted two
terrorists, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi,
who participated in the hijacking of the American
Airlines plane that flew into the Pentagon, killing 125.
After the two hijackers flew to Los Angeles on
Jan. 15, 2000, al-Bayoumi found them an
apartment, lent them money and set them up with bank accounts.
A redacted copy of a three-and-a-half page
October 2012 FBI “update” about the investigation
stated that FBI agents had uncovered “evidence”
that Thumairy and Bayoumi had been “tasked” to
assist the hijackers by yet another individual
whose name was blacked out, prompting lawyers for
the families to refer to this person as “the
third man” in what they argue is a Saudi-orchestrated conspiracy.
Describing the request by lawyers for the 9/11
families to depose that individual under oath,
Sanborn’s declaration says in one instance that
it involves “any and all records referring to or relating to Jarrah.”
The reference is to 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. His duties apparently
included overseeing the activities of Ministry of
Islamic Affairs employees at Saudi-funded mosques
and Islamic centers within the United States.
Relatively little is known about Jarrah, but
according to former embassy employees, he
reported to the Saudi ambassador in the United
States (at the time Prince Bandar), and that he
was later reassigned to the Saudi missions in
Malaysia and Morocco, where he is believed to
have served as recently as last year.
Jarrah has been on the radar screen of the
lawyers for the 9/11 families for some time and
is among nine current or former Saudi officials
who they suspect have important information about
the case and have sought to either question them
or get access to FBI documents that mention them.
The families have also tapped former agents to
help investigate the activities of the potential witnesses, including Jarrah.
Jarrah “was responsible for the placement of
Ministry of Islamic Affairs employees known as
guides and propagators posted to the United
States, including Fahad Al Thumairy,” according
to a separate declaration by Catherine Hunt, a
former FBI agent based in Los Angeles who has
been assisting the families in the case.
Hunt conducted her own investigation into the
support provided to the hijackers in Southern
California. “The FBI believed that al-Jarrah was
‘supporting’ and ‘maintaining’ al-Thumairy during
the 9/11 investigation,” she said in her declaration.
The Sanborn declaration represents the first
public confirmation that the so-called “third
man” referred to in the 2012 report was in fact
an accredited Saudi diplomat. But all of the FBI
evidence the agents had gathered about Jarrah and
his communications about the hijackers remain under seal.
Elsewhere in her declaration, Sanborn asserts
that the contention that Jarrah “tasked” Thumairy
and Bayoumi with assisting the hijackers was more
a “theory” of the agents working the case rather
than a conclusion based on hard evidence.
One former bureau official familiar with the FBI
investigation into the matter, and who asked to
speak confidentially, says that agents had
developed strong evidence of meetings and
communications among Jarrah, Thumairy and Bayoumi
in which assistance to Mihdhar and Hazmi, the two
hijackers, was believed to have been discussed.
But the agents were unable to prove that Jarrah,
who the agents found had flown to Los Angeles to
meet with Thumairy, knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi
were members of al-Qaida and were plotting the
attacks on U.S. soil, resulting in bitter
divisions within the bureau about what to make of
the contacts the agents had uncovered.
“We just didn’t have enough evidence” to move the
case forward, said the former official.
Complicating the question is whether FBI agents
would ever get an opportunity to question and
potentially confront Jarrah. “There was no reason
to believe the Saudis would ever give us access
to him,” said the former official.
Over time, with the rise of the Islamic State in
2014 and 2015, senior bureau officials grew weary
of the issue and reassigned most of the top
counterterrorism agents working on the case to
what were viewed as more pressing priorities.
“There were definitely people at FBI headquarters
who wanted this closed,” the former official said.
Suspicions about a possible Saudi role in 9/11
are as old as the attacks themselves. In the
immediate aftermath of the attacks, investigators
quickly concluded that 15 of the 19 hijackers were of Saudi origin.
The 9/11 commission, which extensively
investigated the question, ultimately concluded
that, while Saudi Arabia had long been viewed as
the primary source of al-Qaida funding, “we have
found no evidence that the Saudi government as an
institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization.”
But the 9/11 commission also acknowledged there
were significant gaps in the record, especially
relating to a critical two-week period after
Mihdhar and Hazmi flew into Los Angeles in
January 2000 after attending an al-Qaida planning
summit in Kuala Lumpur that the CIA had monitored.
Moreover, the panel’s investigators had deep
suspicions about the role of Thumairy, a radical
cleric known for delivering anti-Western sermons,
who they believed had lied to them about ever
having met the hijackers or even knowing Bayoumi,
who did provide extensive support to the
hijackers. Thumairy told agents he did not know
Bayoumi despite phone records showing the two of
them had been in frequent contact.
The lingering questions about the Saudi role
prompted the FBI in the mid-2000s to quietly
initiate a “subfile” investigation whose code
name, Operation Encore, was first revealed by the
New York Times and ProPublica in January that
focused on the activities of Mihdhar and Hazmi in
Southern California and their interactions with Thumairy, Bayoumi and others.
The agents working the case reinterviewed key
witnesses and uncovered phone records and other
material that the 9/11 commission had never seen.
One of the former agents now assisting the 9/11
families, Steven Moore, a former assistant
special agent in Los Angeles, wrote in a 2017
declaration for the families that Thumairy “was
the primary point of contact for Hazmi and
Mihdhar in Los Angeles,” was aware in advance of
their travel to the United States and even
invited Hazmi, the future hijacker, to lead prayers at the King Fahd mosque.
Moore’s conclusion: “Based on evidence we
gathered during the course of our investigation,
I concluded that diplomatic and intelligence
personnel of the Kingdom of the Saudi Arabia
knowingly provided material support to the two
9/11 hijackers and facilitated the 9/11 plot. My
colleagues in our investigation shared that conclusion.”
But even while the agents hit a roadblock when
they were unable to persuade FBI headquarters
about the strength of their evidence, the 9/11
families who wanted to hold the Saudi government
accountable got a huge break in 2016, when
Congress overrode a veto by then-President Obama
and passed the Justice Against Sponsors of
Terrorism Act, which allowed them to bring a
lawsuit against the kingdom in federal court.
The fight for access to key documents and
evidence has dragged on ever since, with repeated
battles between the lawyers for the families on
one side, and lawyers for the FBI, the Justice
Department and the Saudi government on the other.
Last Sept. 11, a group of the families, their
lawyers and two of the former agents helping them
met with President Trump at the White House and
raised their concerns about their lack of access
to the material they were seeking.
“We told him, ‘Please, Mr. President, help us,
please declassify the documents. Our government
has been covering up the Saudi role,” said Eagleson.
Trump was receptive and even got energized after
being told that among those who had resisted
disclosure in the past were former FBI directors
Robert Mueller and James Comey. Trump at one
point said they were “scum” and vowed to help the families.
“Hey Melania,” Trump said at one point, referring
to the first lady, who attended the meeting and
posed for photos with the family members along
with the president, according to one of the
former agents present who asked not to be
identified. “Listen to these guys the same scum
that is fighting me is now fighting the 9/11 families.”
Trump vowed to help, according to those in the
meetings. “He shook all of our hands and said,
‘Don’t worry, I’m going to help you guys,’” said Eagleson.
“We left that meeting feeling elated,” he said.
“We were finally going to see the documents.’”
The White House did not respond to Yahoo News’ request for comment.
The very next day, on Sept. 12, Justice
Department lawyers gave the families the identity
of the third man but under the condition that
they couldn’t publicly disclose it. That same
day, Barr filed his first motion with the court
declaring all the material being sought by the
families as “state secrets” that could not be shared.
“We felt we had been stabbed in the back,” said Eagleson.
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