Declassified Memo Shows Multiple Saudi Connections to 9/11 Plotters
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Recently declassified information that a flight certificate of an Al Qaeda operative linked to 9/11 turned up in an envelope from the Saudi embassy in Washington is raising fresh questions about the Kingdom’s ties to the terror attack.
The certificate was for Ghassan al Sharbi, an extremist captured in Pakistan and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Al Sharbi, who went to flight school with the 9/11 hijackers but did not take part in the attacks, buried a cache of documents near where he was staying in Pakistan, “including an envelope from the Saudi embassy in Washington D.C. containing his flight certificate.”
The certificate and other revelations were laid out in a 47-page work planprepared for the FBI in June 2003 but not declassified until last July. The documents sought to verify the credibility of an FBI informant “with whom 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar resided.” The hijackers, both Saudi citizens, crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.
The documents list other prominent Saudis and potential links to the attacks, including:
