The FedGov Outed The Role Of The House Of Saud In 9/11
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 6 months ago
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 been serving as recently as last year, having been promoted to the position of cultural counselor.
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.
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“There were definitely people at FBI headquarters who wanted this closed,” the former official said.
You live in a country run by criminals, who invite foreign criminals into the country and give them credentials. You don’t have credentials because you’re not special.
It has been an open secret for years now – since the 1990s, certainly – that the Sunni Arab nations have been engaged in support of the so-called “civilization jihad.” We owe that awareness in no small part to such courageous and intrepid investigators as David Gaubatz, Steve Emerson, and their colleagues, who have infiltrated mosques and jihadist training centers, conducted surveillance of them, collected and analyzed still photographic and film images, documents and other evidence. Recorded fiery pro-jihadist imams in their mosques. And much else which cannot be listed here. What is civilization jihad, you ask? To answer that question, we must also understand its inverse, namely the jihad of the sword. Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, said almost 1,500 years ago that jihad was so important to Islam and Muslims that it ranked second in importance only to being a Muslim in the first place. Apologists for Islam and Muslims themselves often brush off such statements by claiming that jihad is only an internal spiritual journey, and not a call to wage holy war upon non-Muslims. The facts do not bear out this claim. As usual, the hajjis are telling half of the truth, dissembling about what Islam is and what Muslims are expected to do. True, Mohammed preached a tolerant and apparently non-violent version of Islam during his younger,earlier days in Mecca. The verses which document this period are said to be part of the Meccan Koran. This is the basis for the claims that Islam is non-violent and harbors no aggression toward the infidels (non-Muslims/unbelievers). During this time, Mohammed had only a small number of followers, and possessed little real military/geopolitical power. However, in 622, Mohammed gathered his followers and they traveled some 300 miles across Arabia to the city of Medina (then called Yathrib), adding followers along the way. They were undertaking what later became known as the hegira (hijrah), an Arabic term to describe conquest by migration. Around this time, Mohammed’s followers began to multiply rapidly, drawn into the fold by the increasing aggressiveness and militancy of their leader. Mohammed and his men conquered Medina, inaugurating the Medina or Medinan period of the Koran, which contains some thirty “verses of the sword” and other calls for his followers to go forth and wage jihad in the name of Islam. Mohammed’s metamorphosis from pacifist to war lord, conqueror, raider, slaver, and killer of the infidels – was complete. The key to drawing the correct conclusions about the content of the Koran lies in the fact that the holy book of Islam is was not presented chronologically, but in order of length of verse. Moreover, a second key is the doctrine of abrogation, whereby the earlier peaceful verses in the Koran are superseded or overruled by the later violent ones. This is settled doctrine within the umma, as it has been handed down for more than a thousand years by the ulema (wise old ones) at al-Azar University in Cairo, Egypt, the seat of Islamic jurisprudence… Read more »