{"id":1667,"date":"2020-05-13T17:51:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2020-05-13T17:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:53:01","slug":"iran-and-turkey-media-us-revealed-saudi-official-linked-to-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"IRAN AND TURKEY MEDIA: US REVEALED SAUDI OFFICIAL LINKED TO 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Article Source: \u00a0Jerusalem Post<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Fars News and Turkey\u2019s Anadolu, both of which tend to represent the government\u2019s official view, highlighted a report that asserts the US mistakenly revealed the name of a Saudi official linked to 9\/11 hijackers.\u201cThe FBI leaked the identity of a Saudi official at the Saudi Embassy in Washington who allegedly supported two al-Qaeda operatives during the incident,\u201d Fars News reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A mistake was made in a declaration by an FBI official in relation to a \u201clawsuit by families of 9\/11 victims who say the Saudi government was involved in the attacks,\u201d Anadolu reported. According to a Turkish media report, a filing was released in April and unsealed last week. \u201cMussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah was mistakenly named in the declaration,\u201d Anadolu reported. \u201cAl-Jarrah was a mid-level Saudi Foreign Ministry official who was assigned to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC, in 1999 and 2000. He was in charge of supervising the activities of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs employees at Saudi-funded mosques and Islamic centers in the US, according to the report. The authorities believe that Al-Jarrah instructed two people \u2013 Fahad al-Thumairy, a cleric; and Omar al-Bayoumi, a suspected Saudi agent \u2013 to help two of the hijackers settle in the US in January 2000 ahead of the attacks.”The whereabouts of Jarrah are unknown, Anadolu reported. It postulated he may be in Saudi Arabia. Turkey\u2019s interest in highlighting this is due to Turkey\u2019s current government is an implacable foe of Riyadh.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Turkey also accuses Saudi Arabia of involvement in killing a dissident in Turkey in 2018. Turkey is a key ally of Qatar and works with Iran. Iran also opposes Saudi Arabia and seeks to embarrass Riyadh. Iran\u2019s Fars News said the US inadvertently revealed \u201cone of the most sensitive secrets of the US government about the 9\/11 attacks.\u201d Jarrah was a \u201ccultural adviser from 1999 to 2000\u201d in Washington, it reported. This took place more than 20 years ago. Iran\u2019s media said this is the first time a connection has been made between \u201cthe hijackers and the Saudi Embassy. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The revelation, which a senior\u00a0US\u00a0government official confirmed was done unintentionally, appears to raise questions about Saudi Arabia\u2019s possible connection to the terrorist attack. It also highlights the unusual efforts of senior Trump administration officials in recent months to prevent the publicity of domestic documents related to the incident, Fars News reported. The story is now making its way into English media in the UK and elsewhere. Al Jazeera in Qatar also picked up the story on Tuesday. Al Jazeera and Qatar\u2019s government also are critical of Saudi Arabia and want to harm Riyadh\u2019s reputation in Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US Department of Justice under President Donald Trump still was refusing to open FBI files despite the civil lawsuit by 9\/11 victims, ProPublica reported in April. The department asserted it was a state secret. In 2019, reports indicated the US would reveal key names. \u201cA 2012 report by the FBI said the agency was investigating Fahad al-Thumairy and Omar Ahmed al-Bayoumi, Saudi nationals who had allegedly helped the attackers,\u201d ABC reported at the time. \u201cAl-Thumairy is a former Saudi consulate official, and Mr al-Bayoumi was once suspected of being a Saudi intelligence officer.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It appears efforts have been made to make sure that at least some of this information will remain behind closed doors. A Wikipedia link for Al-Thumairy takes one to a page about 9\/11 \u201cconspiracy\u201d theories. Despite almost two decades and changes in leadership in both the US and Saudi Arabia, there still are concerns that controversial documents or previously classified briefings related to 9\/11 might be revealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US was very reticent after 9\/11 to cast any blame on its allies where the hijackers may have come from or on countries, such as Pakistan, that supported the Taliban and religious extremism and harbored terrorists and anti-American extremists. Saudi Arabia cracked down on extremists and al-Qaeda after 9\/11, and there was a wave of attacks in the kingdom. A terrorist attack, which al-Qaeda in Yemen took responsibility for, targeted the US Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, in 2019 and was carried out by a Saudi national. In the wake of it, other Saudi cadets were sent home. The US and Saudi Arabia appeared to have not identified the shooter\u2019s growing extremist views. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite Turkey and Iran trying to highlight Saudi Arabia and 9\/11, both countries have their own sordid history of hosting extremists. ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was located by the US just a few hundred meters from Turkey, and he was linked to smuggling networks in Turkey. Turkish-backed extremists have carried out attacks against Kurds and murdered Kurdish activists in recent months. Iran has worked with the Taliban and hosted members of Al-Qaeda. Hamza Bin Laden, son of the arch-terrorist Osama, went to Iran and lived there for years. The US hunted him down and killed him in an airstrike in August 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fars News says that \u201cthe FBI leaked the identity of a Saudi official at the Saudi embassy in Washington who allegedly supported two al-Qaeda operatives during the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-distress-of-nations","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}