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Freshly released, but heavily-censored FBI documents include tantalizing new information about events connected to the Sarasota Saudis who moved suddenly out of their home, leaving behind clothing, jewelry and cars, about two weeks before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The documents were released to BrowardBulldog.org Monday amid ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation. The news organization sued in 2012 after being denied access to the Bureaus file on a once secret investigation focusing on Abdulaziz al-Hijji, his wife, Anoud and her father Esam Ghazzawi, an advisor to a Saudi prince.
An FBI letter accompanying the documents, the fourth batch to be released since the suit was filed, cites national security and other reasons to justify why certain information was withheld. The letter does not explain why the documents were not previously acknowledged to exist.
One FBI report, dated April 3, 2002 recounts a chilling discovery made by the Manatee County Sheriffs Office on Halloween 2001.
Deputies were called after a man with a Tunisian passport was observed disposing of items in a dumpster behind a storage facility hed rented in Bradenton.
The mans name is blanked out, but the report says authorities who searched the dumpster found a self-printed manual on terrorism and Jihad, a map of the inside of an unnamed airport, a rudimentary last will and testament, a weight to fuel ratio calculation for a Cessna 172 aircraft, flight training information from the Flight Training Center in Venice and printed maps of Publix shopping centers in Tampa Bay.
The Flight Training Center is where 9/11 hijack pilot Ziad Jarrah, who was at the controls of United Flight 93 when it crashed in Shanksville, Pa, took flying lessons.
The three paragraphs that follow are completely blanked out. The reasons cited include information specifically authorized under criteria established by [presidential] executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy.
The documents were located via court-ordered text searches using the names of the al-Hijjis and Ghazzawi. U.S. District Judge William J. Zloch is currently reviewing more than 80,000 pages of 9/11 records.
http://www.browardbulldog.org/2014/07/new-fbi-records-a-chilling-find-in-a-dumpster-911-person-of-interest-re-enters-u-s/
Botany
(70,513 posts)The Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.A.'s wife provided some of the hijackers an apartment, spending
money, and had some kind of Saudi government agent pick them up at the airport.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)George Bush was a close (handing-holding/kissing) friend of the Saudis.
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Iraq was going to be attacked/invaded under one pretext or another.
Bush the Lesser had something to prove and Darth Cheney saw a way to make a few billion dollars and satisfy his psychopathic bloodlust at the same time.
9/11 was just "convenient".
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Or is the largest shareholder?
Crowquette
(88 posts)johnnyreb
(915 posts)10,000 9/11 families in combined suits, but you'll not hear much about that from the debunker-wannabes. Some of my notes at random, as I'm running out the door (bold emphasis added);
Dec. 20, 2013
The ruling struck down an earlier decision that found Saudi Arabia immune from lawsuits. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it's in the "interests of justice" to allow them to proceed.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/911-families-ecstatic-finally-sue-saudi-arabia/story?id=21290177
Judge blasts FBI over Saudi family investigation
Apr 4, 2014
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20140404/ARTICLE/140409806
Federal judge waits for FBI in Sarasota Saudis case
Apr 17, 2014
If the judge eventually makes those documents public, the 16-month-old lawsuit could dovetail with a larger effort to shed more light on who financed the jet attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.
One effort is underway in New York federal court, where a 12-year-old case seeks $1 trillion in damages for the relatives of almost 10,000 9/11 victims.
In that case, families are attempting to sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and charities that it established.
In Congress, meanwhile, there is a growing drumbeat to make public a censored 28-page chapter about the terrorists financing that was pulled by unnamed government censors from the report, Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001. The joint Congressional report, minus the censored chapter, runs about 800 pages and was published in late 2002.
The classified section is believed by activists to be based on FBI and CIA documents, and to point fingers at Saudi Arabia, a long-time ally of the United States and key oil supplier.
It all ties together about financing power, leading back to the Saudis, said Bill Doyle, a retired stockbroker who lives in the Central Florida community of The Villages, and whose youngest son, Joseph, died after being trapped in New Yorks World Trade Center. [....]
The 28 pages are part and parcel of the FBI documents, said Premoli, who survived the terror attacks and narrowly escaped from the World Trade Centers north tower. It is all one big cover-up.
Obama publicly promised to make the chapter public, but has not done so.
We anticipate hearing from the Supreme Court in late June, said Robert Haefele, an attorney who represents more than half of the 10,000 plaintiffs in the combined suits.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/17/4065348/federal-judge-waits-for-fbi-in.html
May 9, 2014
FBI publicly releases a few more pages about Sarasota Saudis; 80,000 pages given to judge
The Justice Department late Friday made public four new, heavily censored documents confirming that by 2002 the FBI had found many connections between 9/11 terrorist figures and the Florida family of an allegedly wealthy international businessman with ties to the Saudi Royal family.
http://www.browardbulldog.org/2014/05/fbi-publicly-releases-a-few-more-pages-about-sarasota-saudis-80000-pages-given-to-judge/
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)turned upside down.