FBI DOCUMENTS CONTRADICT 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT (2/2)
 
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   Page 2: FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
   Larisa Alexandrovna
   Published: Thursday February 28, 2008

Who is Bayoumi?

   Much has been reported about Omar al-Bayoumi and his alleged
   relationship with the government of Saudi Arabia. In his recent book,
   The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, New
   York Times reporter Phillip Shenon discusses at length the questions
   surrounding Bayoumi and his ties to the Saudi government.

   Bayoumi seemed clearly to be working for some part of the Saudi
   government, Shenon wrote on page 52. He entered the United States as a
   business student and had lived San Diego since 1996. He was on the
   payroll of an aviation contractor to the Saudi government, paid about
   $2,800 a month, but apparently did no work for the company.

   In fact, Bayoumi was an employee of the Saudi defense contractor Dallah
   Avco. According to a 2002 [8]Newsweek article about Bayoumi, Dallah
   Avco is an aviation-services company with extensive contracts with the
   Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation, headed by Prince Sultan, the
   father of the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar.

   Newsweek points to another connection between Bayoumi and Bandar: About
   two months after al-Bayoumi began aiding Alhazmi and Almihdhar,
   NEWSWEEK has learned, al-Bayoumi's wife began receiving regular
   stipends, often monthly and usually around $2,000, totaling tens of
   thousands of dollars. The money came in the form of cashier's checks,
   purchased from Washington's Riggs Bank by Princess Haifa bint Faisal,
   the daughter of the late King Faisal and wife of Prince Bandar, the
   Saudi envoy who is a prominent Washington figure and personal friend of
   the Bush family. The checks were sent to a woman named Majeda Ibrahin
   Dweikat, who in turn signed over many of them to al-Bayoumi's wife (and
   her friend), Manal Ahmed Bagader. The Feds want to know: Was this
   well-meaning charity gone awry? Or some elaborate money-laundering
   scheme? A scam? Or just a coincidence?

   According to then-Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), who served as a co-chair of
   the 9/11 Congressional inquiry that preceded the 9/11 Commission,
   during the period of Alhazmi and Almihdhars arrival in the US, Bayoumi
   had an unusually large number of telephone calls with Saudi government
   officials in both Los Angeles and Washington. (Graham and Nussbaum,
   2004, pp. 168-169)

   Bayoumi moved to London in 2001 and lived there until his arrest
   immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks. Following his release, Bayoumi
   returned to Saudi Arabia, where he was interviewed in October 2003 by
   the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, and
   Senior Counsel Dieter Snell.

   Snell did not respond to requests for comment; Zeilkow could not be
   reached.

   According to Shenon, several staff members working under Snell, felt
   strongly that they had demonstrated a close Saudi government
   connection, based on explosive material on al-Bayoumi and Fahad
   al-Thumairy, a shadowy Saudi diplomat in Los Angeles.

   Shenon recounts how Snell, in preparing his teams account of the plot,
   purged almost all of the most serious allegations against the Saudi
   government and moved the explosive supporting evidence to the small
   print of the reports footnotes. (The Commission, pp. 398-399)

   Two commission investigators who were working on documenting the 9/11
   plot, Michael Jacobsen and Raj De, argued that it was crazy to insist
   on 100 percent proof when it came to al-Qaeda or the Saudi regime. In
   the end, however, and with a publishing deadline looming, Snells
   caution and Zelikows direction buried apparently promising leads.

   In similar fashion, 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry Report produced by
   Congress -- an entire chapter outlining evidence of Saudi and other
   state sponsorship -- were redacted.

   Baer has additional questions.

   Considering that the main body of evidence came from tortured
   confessions, it's still not entirely clear to me what happened on 9/11,
   Baer said. Among other questions [I have]: Why did [Prince] Bandar's
   wife sent money to Bayoumi? What are Bayoumis links to the Sultan? How
   were the 15 Saudis [among the 19 hijackers] selected to carry out the
   attack? Who fed the credit card used by Abu Zubayda? What happened to
   Abu Zubayda's telephone bills? Who was he calling in the U.S? None of
   these questions are unreasonable nor would answering them violate
   intelligence sources and methods."

   In a [9]recent review of Shenons book, former Democratic senator and
   9/11 Commission member Bob Kerrey called on Congress to investigate
   alleged Saudi ties.

   Congress should demand direct access to those who organized the
   attacks; our indirect interviews were at best inadequate, Kerrey wrote.
   And Congress should pursue [the] question of whether the Saudi
   government aided the conspiracy.

   Kerrey declined to comment for this article. Other Commission members
   did not respond to requests for comment.

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