New Evidence Indicates Saudi Arabia Did 9/11

While the American government attempts a cover-up, the evidence mounts.

Hey folks! Some of you might remember an earlier version of this post from last year. I’ve updated it for two reasons:

1. My subscriber count has doubled since last September, so most of you haven’t read this.

2. The last year has brought new evidence to light linking Saudi Arabia to the terrorist attacks. Given this, I felt the need to re-write it so you can see the whole picture.

I hope you appreciate it. In Solidarity — Joe

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The Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001.

This week brings the 23^rd anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. As has become customary, the anniversary came with stoic remembrance. From public classrooms to Monday Night Football, Americans are asked to share a moment of silence in remembering the three thousand Americans murdered over two decades ago.

But while September 11th is the annual reminder of the tragedy, there is one aspect of the attacks that Americans are encouraged not to think about: The evidence showing Saudi Arabia enabled and directed the hijackers.

“The circumstantial evidence (of Saudi involvement in 9/11) has mounted. Given the lapse of time, I don’t know any reason why the truth should be kept from the American people.” — Richard Lambert, lead FBI investigator into 9/11

With each passing year, more and more evidence comes to light indicating our “ally” played a role in the mass murder of innocents.

The flight paths of hijacked planes.

The Evidence

While Saudi Arabia’s possible culpability in 9/11 may sound like the farfetched conspiracy heard from the likes of Alex Jones, the theory is anything but. For years, the family members of 9/11 victims have petitioned Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden to release the documents from the FBI’s investigation into the attack, which they believe would aid their ongoing lawsuit against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.¹ Though President Trump promised the families he would release the name of the Saudi diplomat the FBI had linked to the attackers, he instructed his Attorney General, Bill Barr, to prevent the disclosure, claiming it would “harm the national security.” (You can read Barr’s complete statement in the below document.)

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The files in question were from Operation Encore,² the FBI’s investigation into the role Saudi Arabia played in aiding the nineteen hijackers. While the FBI previously admitted that “low-level” Saudi nationals with ties to the Saudi government assisted two of the hijackers, the bulk of the investigation remains sealed. But even without knowing the full extent of the FBI’s findings, what we know paints a plausible picture of Saudi involvement in the most consequential event of the 21^st century.

Of the nineteen hijackers, fifteen were Saudi Arabian. So was their financier, Osama bin Laden. Upon arriving in the United States in January 2000, the first pair sought aid from a suspected Saudi spy at a Saudi-linked Los Angeles mosque. The FBI was watching this alleged spy well before any hijackers entered the country.

From there, the links only grow. While living in the U.S., the hijackers were in constant contact with Omar Al-Bayoumi. Al-Bayoumi was a known informant of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency, the General Intelligence Presidency, or GIP. He received a monthly stipend from the agency, which stopped on September 11th, 2001.³

Omar al-Bayoumi.

Officially, Al-Bayoumi was a student at the time, though he seldom attended class. Being pursued by the FBI, he fled to Saudi Arabia and started working in the Saudi government’s aviation department. (He is presumed to still live there, outside the reach of investigators.) It was later learned that hours before meeting the two hijackers, Al-Bayoumi had visited the Saudi consulate in L.A. There he met with Fahad Al-Thumairy, a Saudi diplomat who later had his diplomatic passport revoked by the State Department for suspicion of “terrorist activity.”

In June of 2024, a federal court unsealed a video taken by Al-Bayoumi in 1999. In a self-narrated tour of landmarks around Washington D.C., Al-Bayoumi details entrances, exits, and security checkpoints. He also explains the configuration of the Washington Monument to the Capitol Building, which could serve as an indicator for suicide pilots trying to locate high-value targets from the air. A portion of Al-Bayoumi’s scouting video can be seen below.

Though this video was discovered by British police in Al-Bayoumi’s U.K. apartment in Fall 2001, it was only disclosed this year. Given this, one has to wonder what other evidence is hidden from the public eye for “national security” concerns.

At each step of their investigation into a possible Al-Qaeda—Saudi Arabia link, FBI agents were blocked by both Washington and Riyadh. They were seldom allowed to interview suspected contacts, and while the Bureau insisted publicly that there was no link between the Saudi government and the hijackers, those doing the investigation discovered the opposite. When retired FBI agent Kenneth Williams, who had warned his superiors about a possible hijacking in July of 2001, was asked to testify on behalf of the 9/11 families’ lawsuit, he was threatened by the FBI and the Trump administration. According to Williams, he was told: 

“There is other litigation involving the U.S. government going on and any cooperation by you may negatively impact that case. The Trump Administration is trying to have good relations with Saudi Arabia and they do not want you to give a deposition or cooperate with counsel the families.”

Williams followed command and declined to testify, fearing aiding the families would cost him his pension. '

“Good Relations”

It’s no mystery why the American government would want to suppress knowledge of Saudi Arabia’s culpability in 9/11. The Saudis have America, and more specifically, its politicians, over a barrel. Literally. 

The Kingdom’s oil production heavily impacts global oil prices, which can sway elections. The Saudis are known to decrease or increase oil production to impact American gas prices to help their preferred candidate. Last year, Saudi Arabia announced low production would continue, ensuring rising oil prices will be an issue in the 2024 Presidential election,⁴ a clear sign the Kingdom would prefer a Donald Trump presidency over a Democrat.

President Trump with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The New York Times reported the two were in contact in Spring of 2024.

Additionally, the American military sees Saudi Arabia as a key ally in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia is a long-time adversary of Iran, making them natural coalition partners for American politicians still begrudged by the 1979 Iranian Revolution. There are also five American military bases on Saudi soil, which were key staging points for the Iraq War.⁵ The Kingdom buys $10.7 billion⁶ worth of American armaments every year, making it one of the military industrial complex’s largest customers. If that relationship were to be cut off, as would happen if the government formally accused Saudi Arabia of its crime, politicians would see their donations from Raytheon and Lockheed Martin dry up. 

On some level, the U.S. government has decided preserving this economic and imperialist relationship is more important than determining who really killed thousands of innocent civilians and destabilized the world.

In an incredibly bizarre event, Saudi Arabia’s state Twitter account posted the above image in 2018. The post, which shows a 9/11-like event happening in the Toronto skyline, came after Canada expelled the Saudi diplomat over human rights concerns.

When I wrote a previous version of this article last September, I titled it “Saudi Arabia (Likely) Did 9/11.” At the time, Al-Bayoumi’s status as a Saudi intelligence asset was suspected but unconfirmed. As there was plausible deniability he acted on his own, I felt the need to include the “likely” modifier. Since then, it has been established Al-Bayoumi was a paid agent of the GIP, a fact unearthed alongside the sealed home video. Given this established link, I no longer feel that need. In my eye, the evidence that has come forth in the last year surpasses the burden of proof and makes it more likely than not that the Saudi Arabian government played a key role in the September 11th terrorist attacks.

As goes without saying, the great lengths the U.S. government has gone to protect Saudi Arabia is a slap in the face to the 9/11 victims and their families. But that’s only part of the issue. Since September 11^th, 2001, the American Empire has weaponized the lost lives as justification to launch illegal wars, flaunt international law, and assassinate U.S. citizens. Given the government has spent a quarter-century stifling any real efforts to discover who ordered the attacks, it’s fair to say our leaders — both Democrat and Republican — are cynically using the 9/11 victims as propaganda for foreign military endeavors and domestic restrictions on civil liberties.

American soldiers receive a briefing in Somalia, one of the many countries impacted by America’s “War on Terror.”

It’s no coincidence modern America’s worst acts, from invading Iraq to the CIA’s ongoing torture program, was done under the pretext of “stopping the next 9/11.” If it was revealed that the attack was carried out by Saudi Arabia, a nation we have spent the last two decades cozying up to, it would be immediately clear to the American people that every act of “national security” done since 2001 wasn’t a well-intentioned program, but a criminal conspiracy. That’s a risk the U.S. government cannot take. 

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1. https://www.propublica.org/article/sept-11-family-lawsuit-saudi-spy

2. https://www.propublica.org/article/9-11-investigation-saudi-connections-operation-encore-fbi

3. https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/new-video-documents-revive-questions-saudi-role-911-attacks-rcna158768

4. https://www.axios.com/2023/09/06/oil-prices-saudi-production-elections

5. https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/2004/04-25/457408_saudis_secretly_helped_u_s__in_.html

6. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/its-time-to-stop-us-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia/