Other than that, and improving airport security, improving airliner security with armed marshals, alert the military to a heightened state of readiness, execute a FISA warrant search on Zaccarias Moussaoui and his laptop... — Octafish
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Despite the criticisms, the report of the Joint Intelligence Committee concludes that none of the major intelligence agencies, including the FBI and CIA, had information that "would have provided specific advance warning" of the assaults that killed more than 3,000 people.
"Nothing could be done to prevent the attacks," said one top FBI official who asked not to be identified.SNIP...
The FBI also is faulted for not closely monitoring an alleged associate of the hijackers, Omar Al-Bayoumi, who is identified in the report as an agent of the Saudi Arabian government. Al-Bayoumi, who is back in Saudi Arabia, is alleged to have provided some housing assistance to the hijackers while they were in the USA.
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Remember how Ambassador Prince Bandar's wife fronted some al Quaeda types with plenty of cash?9-11 Hijackers: A Saudi Money Trail?
The Feds probe a possible new Saudi link to Al Qaeda By Michael Isikoff
NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE
Nov. 22 — The FBI is investigating whether the Saudi Arabian government—using the bank account of the wife of a senior Saudi diplomat—sent tens of thousands of dollars to two Saudi students in the United States who provided assistance to two of the September 11 hijackers, according to law-enforcement sources.
THE BUREAU, THEY SAY, has uncovered financial records showing a steady stream of payments to the family of one of the students, Omar Al Bayoumi. The money moved into the family’s bank account beginning in early 2000, just a few months after hijackers Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi arrived in Los Angeles from an Al Qaeda planning summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, according to the sources. Within days of the terrorists’ arrival in the United State, Al Bayoumi befriended the two men who would eventually hijack American Flight 77, throwing them a welcoming party in San Diego and guaranteeing their lease on an apartment next door to his own. Al Bayoumi also paid $1,500 to cover the first two months of rent for Al Midhar and Alhazmi, although officials said it is possible that the hijackers later repaid the money.
Sources familiar with the evidence say the payments—amounting to about $3,500 a month—came from an account at Washington’s Riggs Bank in the name of Princess Haifa Al-Faisal, the wife of Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and the daughter of the late Saudi King Faisal. After Al Bayoumi left the country in July 2001—two months before the September 11 terror attacks—payments for roughly the same amount began flowing every month to Osama Basnan, a close associate of Al Bayoumi’s who also befriended the hijackers. A federal law-enforcement source told NEWSWEEK that Basnan—who was recently convicted of visa fraud and is awaiting deportation—was a known “Al Qaeda sympathizer” who “celebrated the heroes of September 11” at a party after the attacks and openly talked about “what a wonderful, glorious day it had been.”
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