The report doesn't offer conclusive evidence that the Saudi government aided the hijackers, but some who represent survivors and victims’ relatives are still celebrating it as significant
FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images The FBI released a declassified 16-page internal memo on Saturday night regarding its investigation of support given to two 9/11 hijackers and their links to Saudi citizens living in the U.S., including Saudi diplomats. Though the 2016 memo is heavily redacted, it does not offer conclusive evidence that the Saudi government played a role in the attacks.
The memo is the first document to be released after President Biden issued an executive order instructing the Justice Department and other agencies to conduct a declassification review of information withheld from the public about the attacks.
Victims’ groups celebrated the release of the memo. 9/11 Families United, a group of survivors and victims’ family members, claimed in a statement on Sunday that the newly released document “puts to bed any doubts about Saudi complicity in the attacks.
Saudi Arabia’s government has long denied that it was in any way involved in the attacks. In 2004, the 9/11 Commission said it hadn’t found evidence that the Saudi government or senior Saudi officials had funded Al Qaeda, but concluded Saudi nationals had played a major role in supporting the terrorist organization. Some members of the Commission have also subsequently said that the investigation could have dug deeper into the possible links.
Last week, the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C. said it supports the U.S. declassifying additional documents, insisting it hopes doing so will “end the baseless allegations against the Kingdom once and for all.”
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