Over a generation after a group of al-Qaeda* terrorists killed nearly three thousand Americans in a series of coordinated attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a hijacked airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania on route to Washington, D.C., questions continue to swirl regarding who else was behind the acts of terror.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation ‘accidentally' disclosed the name of a Saudi diplomat accused of providing assistance to two of the al-Qaeda* hijackers who rammed a plane into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001,Yahoo News has reported, citing a new court declaration filed by a senior FBI official as part of an ongoing lawsuit by families of victims who accuse Riyadh of complicity in the attacks.
Jarrah, who has gone on to serve in Saudi diplomatic missions in Malaysia and Morocco, is one of three Saudi officials whom the families of the victims of 9/11 suspect of involvement in the terror plot. The others are Fahad al-Thumairy, a Saudi Islamic affairs official and cleric serving at the King Fahd Mosque in Los Angeles, and Omar al-Bayoumi, a suspected government agent provided cash and bank accounts to two of the terrorists.
Giant Screwup
Brett Eagleson, a spokesman for the 9/11 families suing the Saudi government, whose own father died during the attacks, said he was surprised by the FBI's apparent mistake, describing it as “a giant screwup.”
Justice Department officials…
