The Daily Beast
Shane Harris\
The secret ‘28 pages’
are just the start. The FBI has another 80,000 classified documents,
many of which deal with Saudi connections to the 9/11 terror plot.
What’s the Bureau got?
The Obama administration may soon release 28 classified pages from a congressional investigation that allegedly links Saudis in the United States to the 9/11 attackers. A former Republican member of the 9/11 Commission alleged Thursday that there was “clear evidence” of support for the hijackers from Saudi officials.
But in Florida, a federal judge is weighing whether to declassify portions of some 80,000 classified pages
that could reveal far more about the hijackers’ Saudis connections and
their activities in the weeks preceding the worst attack on U.S. soil.
The
still-secret files speak to one of the strangest and most enduring
mysteries of the 9/11 attacks. Why did the Saudi occupants of a posh
house in gated community in Sarasota, Florida, suddenly vanish in the
two weeks prior to the attacks? And had they been in touch with the
leader of the operation, Mohamed Atta, and two of his co-conspirators?
No
way, the FBI says, even though the bureau’s own agents did initially
suspect the family was linked to some of the hijackers. On further
scrutiny, those connections proved unfounded, officials now say.
But
a team of lawyers and investigative journalists has found what they say
is hard evidence pointing in the other direction. Atta did visit the
family before he led 18 men to their deaths and murdered 3,000 people,
they say, and phone records connect the house to members of the 9/11
conspiracy.
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