Tag: Fahad al Thumairy
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Victims’ lawsuit that seeks to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for 9/11 approaches make-or-break crossroads
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Seven years after thousands of 9/11 family victims won the right to sue Saudi Arabia for allegedly helping al Qaeda hijackers attack the U.S., their monumental court case is approaching a make-or-break crossroads. -
A ‘state secret’ no more: New FBI report says Saudi government officials provided support network for 9/11 hijackers
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A 130-page FBI report written only last July lays out the numerous connections of U.S.-based “personnel and entities controlled by the Saudi Arabian government” to the al Qaeda terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. -
Under oath, AG Barr and other top Trump officials invoked ‘state secrets privilege’ to hide FBI 9/11 report with no state secrets
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Long before last month’s release of a 2016 FBI report about Operation Encore, the bureau’s probe into possible Saudi complicity in 9/11, top Trump administration officials swore under “penalty of perjury” that information in the report was a “state secret” whose public release was likely to cause “significant harm to the national security.” -
9/11 Families’ lawyer to Judge Netburn: Encore document shows ‘a cancer’ within Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
UPDATE – Sept. 18 – Agreeing with arguments made by lawyers for the 9/11 Families, a federal magistrate has extended until April 1 the deadline for filing expert reports. The delay will allow time for experts for both sides to digest a mountain of potential evidence about possible Saudi Arabian complicity in the 2001 terrorist attacks that the FBI and other government agencies are expected to declassify and make public through March under the terms of President Biden’s recent executive order. -
FBI declassifies and releases long-sought Operation Encore document about probe of possible Saudi government 9/11 complicity
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The FBI, complying with President Biden’s recent executive order, made public late Saturday night a previously classified April 4, 2016 “review and analysis” report about Operation Encore, the bureau’s highly sensitive investigation of possible Saudi complicity in the 9/11 terrorist attack. -
Secret pre-9/11 report: ‘widespread’ Al Qaeda sleeper cells in America that CIA, FBI were ill-equipped to counter
By Robbyn Swan
FloridaBulldog.org
A long-secret report, written 18 months before 9/11 by senior members of President Clinton’s national security team, concluded that U.S. intelligence were failing in their attempts to break al Qaeda…
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