The Worst Day: Lawyers for 9/11 Families and Brett Eagleson Demand Release of Secret FBI investigation of Saudi Kingdom Links to 9/11 Terrorists.

THE WORST DAY TUESDAY 9/11/2001. Lawyers for 9/11 Families and Brett Eagleson demand release of secret FBI probe docs on Saudi involvement in 9/11 terror attack. Rare second chance to grill Saudi officials on alleged links to September 11 hijackers.The first two 9/11 hijackers in the U.S. — Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khalid Al-Mihdhar — arrived in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2000, without being able to speak English. Yet, records show, they made it to San Diego where they took flying lessons — and flunked out — rented an apartment, and attended a mosque. They were both Saudi nationals. But how did they afford it all? 

That’s what lawyers will ask Saudi officials Omar al-Bayoumi, up first June 9-11; Musaed al-Jarrah, next to be questioned June 17-18; and, last but not least, Fahad al-Thumairy, June 28-30. The interviews will take place by video with Saudi officials checking in from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “These depositions are the most important of them all. It’s big,” said Brett Eagleson of Connecticut, who was 15 years old when his dad died while working at the Twin Towers on 9/11.

UPDATE SEPT 9th, 2021: ABC ACTION NEWS 9/11 SUPPORT NETWORK IN SARASOTA: Click image above for ABC News video and print story. $4,000 phone bills fished from the trash/ Sarasota private investigator Bill Warner started his own investigation in 2002. “They were here, in my neighborhood. So I had to look at it, kept looking at it,” Bill Warner said, he partnered with police, sheriff’s deputies and was eventually paid by ICE for providing surveillance photos and phone bills he collected from the garbage cans of people of interest. Bill Warner said some of the cell phone bills he collected were 35-to-40 pages long, with calls made to phone numbers located all over the world. At that time, cell phone and long-distance companies charged by the minute for calls. “The bills you could see they were $1,200, $1500, $2,000, sometimes even $4,000 a month,” Bill Warner said. ”These are guys living in duplexes, driving old cars, who don’t have a job, see more CLICK HERE.

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Nic Haros Jr., the son of a 9/11 victim, urged President Biden to avoid attending 20-year memorials during an interview on "Fox & Friends" on Monday. Haros Jr. called Biden the "killer-in-chief" saying he showed a lack of compassion for the families of the 13 service members killed in Kabul. Nic Haros Jr.'s mother, Frances Haros , was killed in the attack on the World Trade Center, Tuesday morning, September 11th, 2001.

NYP writes: Pressure is building on President Biden to release secret FBI documents showing Saudi Arabia’s alleged complicity in the 9/11 terror attacks, with families of the victims accusing the US government of letting a Middle East ally “get away with the murder of our loved ones.” A group of 22 New York and New Jersey federal lawmakers, including lone Republican Nicole Malliotakis and NY Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, sent a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland, challenging the “state secrets privilege” that ex-Presidents Trump, Obama and Bush invoked to block release of a classified 16-page FBI report. 

Relatives of those killed on 9/11 or from illnesses triggered by Ground Zero toxins applauded last week’s missive. “After nearly 20 years, it is long past time that the American public learned the extent of Saudi Arabia’s role in 9/11,” said Brett Eagleson, who was 15 when his father was killed in the South Tower collapse. Evidence of Saudi involvement in the terror attack emerged in a 2012 FBI memo as part of its Operation Encore investigation from 2007 to 2016. The heavily redacted four-page document identified three senior Saudi government officials who helped provide two 9/11 hijackers with living quarters, financial aid, flight lessons and driver’s licenses in California — allegedly knowing they “were here to commit an act of terrorism.” One of the officials, Musaed Jarrah, was working in the Saudi Embassy in Washington. OPERATION ENCORE..SAN DIEGO CA & SARASOTA FL.

OPERATION ENCORE: highly censored FBI report made public then showed that in October 2012 federal prosecutors and FBI agents in New York City were actively exploring filing charges against a suspect (Osama “Sam” Mustafa) for providing material support to Saudi-born 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. A key aspect of the 9/11 families’ demands is for access to records about Operation Encore, an FBI investigation into the Saudi role in 9/11terror attacks. A highly censored FBI report made public then showed that in October 2012 federal prosecutors and FBI agents in New York City were actively exploring filing charges against a suspect for providing material support to Saudi-born 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who with three other terrorists crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in 2001. The suspect’s identify was censored. The report contains several bullet points about individuals with ties to Hazmi and/or Mihdhar. All of the names are redacted, but one name is discernible from the available information: former Tampa resident Osama “Sam” Mustafa. Prior to 9/11, Osama Mustafa owned a gas station and several used car lots in La Mesa a suburb of San Diego where future hijacker Hazmi worked for about a month in the fall of 2000. Mustafa previously had been the subject of an FBI counterterrorism investigation. 

Osama Mustafa is a high ranking member of the PFLP terrorist organization. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization (the PLO, founded in 1964), the largest being Fatah (founded in 1959). The 2012 FBI report recounts Mustafa’s May 15, 2012, arrest in Tampa for Treasury check fraud filed by a U.S. Attorney in Virginia. Court records say the case involved a $17 million tax-refund fraud scheme, and that Mustafa was found guilty in April 2013. According to the report, federal authorities in Tampa had offered Mustafa a deal on Sept. 17, 2012. Osama Sam Mustafa owned used car lots in San Diego and in Tampa Fl.

Operation Encore was a 2002 FBI investigation into Saudi Arabian links to the September 11 attacks. From the day of the attacks, the trail seemed to point to Saudi Arabia. First, there was the inescapable fact that, like Osama bin Laden, 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. The first two flew in to Los Angeles in January 2000 and quickly made their way to a Saudi mosque. When they moved to San Diego a few weeks later, they turned for help to a middle-aged Saudi student whom the FBI suspected of spying for the kingdom. The FBI’s 9/11 investigation, which was given the ungainly name Penttbom (a reference to the Pentagon and the twin towers), eventually compiled a detailed chronology of all 19 hijackers’ movements, financial transactions and other activities. The 2012 FBI report takes a longer look at Mohdar Abdullah, who “played a key role facilitating the daily lives and assisting future Flight 77 hijackers.” His story is recounted in a section of the report titled “Details on Mohdar Abdullah and his connection [redacted].” National security is cited for that redaction, and for much of the first couple of sentences in the section. But the agents were frustrated by one gaping hole in the timeline: They could not account for the first two weeks after Hazmi and Mihdhar landed at Los Angeles International Airport on Jan. 15, 2000. Their arrival was the first major step in bin Laden’s plot to attack the United States, and it was a risky one. Both young men had trained and fought as jihadists in Bosnia and Afghanistan. They were known to the NSA and the CIA partly declassified summary of the Encore case, written in 2012 by New York investigators, cites “evidence” that a Saudi official whose name is redacted “tasked al-Thumairy and al-Bayoumi with assisting the hijackers.” 

According to several people familiar with the document, it refers to a Saudi religious official with diplomatic status who served in the United States. But the FBI recently discounted the idea that the Saudi was a central figure in a support network. Even so, they flew to the United States under their real names, passing through immigration with the tourist visas stamped in their Saudi passports. That year, the arrival on the Encore team of another veteran New York detective, Efrain Vazquez, gave the case a shot of energy. It didn’t last long. Investigators tried again to recruit Mohdar Abdullah, who had moved to Sweden, as a cooperating witness, but he refused. Reached in Stockholm, Abdullah told us he would not discuss details of his dealings with the hijackers, but railed at his treatment by American authorities. “The hijackers associated with many people in California,” he said. “Nothing happened to any of them like what happened to me. This case keeps haunting me.”

The FBI agent who led the post 9/11 investigation of Saudis who moved out of their Sarasota-area home under suspicious circumstances two weeks before the 2001 al Qaeda attacks urged the FBI to seek information from the CIA about whether they assisted the terrorist hijackers. That’s among the final disclosures the FBI made recently to conclude a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by Florida Bulldog in 2012 seeking records of a bureau investigation that was once so secret its existence was withheld from both Congress and the 9/11 Commission. News that the FBI agent who led the probe wanted to ratchet it up by contacting the CIA for further information about the Saudis with ties to the Royal Family was redacted from an explosive April 16, 2002 FBI report. Most significantly, the heavily censored report written by FBI Agent Gregory Sheffield said agents had found “many connections” between the Sarasota Saudis and the hijackers who trained at a nearby airport. The report noted a “family member… was a flight student at Huffman Aviation,” where two of the 9/11 hijack pilots trained. “For these reasons, the FBI is interested in determining if the Central Intelligence Agency has any investigative interest or reason to investigate,” the newly released information says. “Any information which the CIA could provide to the FBI would be useful in the FBI investigation.” The FBI was investigating Abdulazziz al-Hijji; his wife, Anoud, and her father, Esam Ghazzawi, a wealthy Saudi businessman with ties to the kingdom’s ruling House of Saud and international and American political leaders.

3 men recorded a rap song calling themselves “The Arab Assassins” prior to 9/11/2001 at the GHC Recording Studio at 2195 Porter Lake Dr, Sarasota, Florida, business is inactive according to Florida Dept of State records. GHC Recording Studio was created twenty years, eight months and twenty-three days on 18th December 2000. Here are some of the lyrics from the rap song 'Arab Assassins' : "I'm heartless an animal next on God's list". Glocks and clips that blend with the fog and mist (planes coming out of the sky). We could die any day, that’s why we pray for such purposes. Five times a day, heads at concrete surfaces. It’s murderous. Arab Assassins, you’ve heard of us.” “The US will remember this.” A mysterious Arab rap band records a CD, which includes songs apparently about upcoming terrorist attacks. The group, called the Arab Assassins, records its songs at the GHC Recording Studio in Sarasota, Florida. According to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, their lyrics “range from generic references to Palestinian beliefs to verses that could be considered by some as a warning of what unfolded in New York City and Washington, DC” on 9/11. These refer to subjects such as bombings, New York, and fundamentalist Islamic martyrs. Lyrics include, “I know I’m going to die,” “I’m next on God’s list,” “Partners torn, transformed to martyrs,” “to turn wives into widows,” and “the US will remember this.” After 9/11, the recording studio’s owner Chris Musgrave will comment, “There are some weird coincidences here.” The rap group is made up of three brothers who claim to be from Brooklyn. Yet officials with the Recording Industry Association of America later say they have never heard of the Arab Assassins, and none of the large Internet music sites offer any recordings by them. After recording several songs at the studio, the Arab Assassins take six copies of their CD, and then leave a telephone number that is listed as disconnected. The day after 9/11, the local FBI will seize a copy of the CD from the studio, but offer no comments to the press on the band.

According to newly released documents in the Florida Bulldog Freedom of Information lawsuit filed on the Tampa FBI there appears to have been a Confidential Informant (CI) working along with local law enforcement (ICE & Sarasota Police Dept) in providing information to the FBI during the 2002 Secret Sarasota investigation into a support network for the 9/11 hijack pilots when they were in the Sarasota Fl area. During the time period from late 2002 to end of 2003 Imam Muneer Arafat was paid $35,000 by the FBI to work as a CI in a Sarasota investigation, he revealed this information in open court during the Sami Al-Arain trial in Tampa as reported by the Tampa Trib, ‘Cleric Testifies in Al Arian Trial’ By MICHAEL FECHTER. Arafat was arrested in Sarasota Fl in Nov 2002 by ICE for overstaying his visa, he was shipped off to St Louis to testify before a Federal Grand Jury investigating people with links to 9/11 including his roommate Ziyad Khaleel as reported by the St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. When Arafat returned to Sarasota in December of 2002 he was now working for the FBI.

ISLAMIC CHARITIES FUNDING AL-QAEDA & OPERATIVES IN USA: “Procurement Agent” for bin Laden, Ziyad Khaleel (a.k.a. Ziyad Sadaqa). In November 1996, the FBI monitors the progress of bin Laden buying a new satellite phone and tracks the purchase to Ziyad Khaleel, a US citizen and radical militant living in Missouri with Imam Muneer Arafat (later in Sarasota Fl). Newsweek will later say that this puts the Sudan-based charity Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) “on the FBI’s radar screen” because Ziyad Khaleel is one of IARA’s eight regional US directors. Furthermore, Ziyad Khaleel and his roommate is Imam Muneer Arafat are working for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), a Hamas-linked organization co-founded by Mousa Abu Marzook. US intelligence will later reveal that in the late 1990s, IARA is regularly funding al-Qaeda. For instance, it has evidence of IARA giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to bin Laden in 1999. December 1999 Police in Jordan detain Ziyad Khaleel, who the FBI calls a Florida-based “procurement agent” for Osama bin Laden. The FBI says Khaleel’s role is to “procure computers, satellite telephones, and covert surveillance equipment” for al-Qaeda leaders, his roommate was Imam Muneer Arafat who moved to Sarasota Fl in early 2000. Ziyad Khaleel and Muneer Arafat were fundraisers for Islamic African Relief Agency and the Holy Land Foundation both designated terrorist supporters of Hamas and Al-Qaeda. UPDATE August 11th, 2021 ABC Action News Tampa I-Team Investigator Adam Walser and Photojournalist Matt McGlashen appear to have some interest in my involvement in a 2002 Sarasota Fl investigation into a terrorist support network that included Imam Muneer Arafat, "We'll see". 

VIDEO ABC7 NEWS SUNCOAST WWSB: Six years ago, Sarasota Private Investigator Bill Warner Exposes Muslim Cleric Muneer Arafat Links to Terrorism. Sarasota Mosque Imam Muneer Arafat came to Sarasota in March of 2000 his prior roommate in St Louis was al-Qaeda procurement agent Ziyad Sadaqua aka Ziyad Khaleel who purchased a satellite phone in the USA and had it shipped to Africa so that it could be used by Osama bin-Laden in the 1998 US Embassy Bombings in Africa. In June of 2000 Mohamed Atta and his 9/11 hijack pals followed Muneer Arafat to Sarasota FL, while Ziyad Sadaqua went to Orlando Fl small world, eh.

Much has been made about a secret 2002 FBI investigation into the Sarasota Saudi Connection. The FBI never questioned members of the Saudi Royal Family before allowing them to flee the United States in the days immediately following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Aboard the plane were two princes -- one of whom allegedly had been in contact with al-Qaeda before the the attacks and another whose father's longtime adviser owned a house in Florida that was allegedly visited several times by some of the hijackers. What's more, the FBI's detailed report to Congress and President George W. Bush on the Saudi exodus was so flawed, it didn't even correctly identify one of the princes, according to new reporting by MSNBC. On the day of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, there were two members of the Saudi Royal family on American soil. One, Prince Ahmed bin Salman, a media baron with vast wealth and a passion for racing expensive horses, was in Lexington Kentucky for the annual sale of thoroughbred yearlings. 

The second, Prince Sultan bin Fahd, was a 22-year-old royal living in Sarasota, Florida, and studying at the University of Tampa’s American Language Academy. Saudi Prince Prince Salman bin Fahad bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud used the name Fahad in Sarasota Fl. Both men, MSNBC reports, were later found to have troubling connections to the men who hijacked four planes on September 11, 2001. Al-Qaida had allegedly been in contact with Prince Ahmed before the attacks, according to statements made by one of Osama bin Ladin's top aides, Abu Zubaydah, MSNBC reported. More strange is the fact that Prince Ahmed died in July 2002 at age 43 of heart failure. The circumstances of his death remain unclear to this day. Prince Sultan, meanwhile, had links to Esam Ghazzawi -- a top adviser to his father Prince Fahd. Of special interest is the Ghazzawis’ boss, the chairman of Eirad Holding Co. Ltd.Saudi Prince Prince Salman bin Fahad bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud used the name Fahad in Sarasota Fl is a prominent member of the ruling Saudi royal family he was living in Sarasota from 2000 to 2001. He is a great-grandson of King Abdulaziz (commonly referred to as Ibn Saud), founder of modern Saudi Arabia, and grandson of the current king. Ghazzawi owned a home in Sarasota that was visited several times by Mohamad Atta, the leader of the September 11 hijackers, and his group. On the day of the attacks, Prince Sultan bin Fahd was in Sarasota. He received a call from his uncle who told him to make it to Lexington as soon as they could so they could leave the country amid mounting anti-Saudi sentiment. A former Florida police officer and a former FBI agent were hired to provide protection for the young royal and his colleagues. In the hours after the September 11 attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights until 11am September 13. Though it has been reported that the Saudis flew during this air prohibition, according to MSNBC, Prince Sultan and his friends actually didn't leave on a chartered jet until five hours after the flight ban was lifted. The FBI report to Congress and President George W. Bush lists another method of travel entirely. The FBI claimed that the prince hired a car and drove the 900 miles north to Kentucky. But the two men who worked for the prince's security detail said the FBI got this all wrong, MSNBC says. Another key detail the FBI got wrong was Prince Sultan's identity. The FBI said the young prince was the son of Prince Ahmed. However, Prince Sultant is actually the older royal's nephew. Three days after prince touched down in Lexington, Kentucky, he and Prince Ahmed, along with 12 other Saudis boarded a Boeing 727 and flew back to Saudi Arabia. None of the men was ever questioned by the FBI before they were allowed to leave the country, according to MSNBC.

Saudi Prince Prince Salman bin Fahad bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud used the name Fahad in Sarasota Fl. RE Esam Ghazzawi’s son, Adel Ghazzawi, 46: Individuals tied to Huffman Flight School and 9/11 Hijackers by FBI linked to 4224 Escondito Circle Sarasota as family members appear to be Abdulaziz al-Hijji and Adel Ghazzawi son of Esam Ghazzawi. In the year 2000, Sarasota Saudi’s Abdulaziz al-Hijji then age 27 and his brother in law Adel Ghazzawi then age 30, were contemporaries of 9/11 Hijack Pilots Ziad Jarrah then age 25, Marwan Al-Shehhi then age 22, and Monamed Atta then age 32 who all appear to have taken Flight Training in Venice Fl at Hoffman Aviation at the same time, small world, eh? It appears the Adel Ghazzawi had been staying at 4224 Escondito Circle Sarasota, he also was linked to a address in nearby Longboat Key Fl. 

April 3rd 2002 FBI report indicates that at least two people linked to the al-Hijji house in Prestancia Sarasota Fl were taking flight lessons at Huffman Aviation with the 9/11 hijackers in the year 2000. When “big poppy” Esam Ghazzawi left the U.S., Adel Ghazzawi apparently took over the family’s affairs here. It was Adel, then 30 and an American citizen, who tried to get a Prestancia lien lifted so the house could be sold. The lien came after the series of brushes with Prestancia’s community association in Sarasota Fl, they all just slipped away right under the noses of the FBI. Quote: “A U.S. agency involved in tracking terrorist funds was interested in both men even before 9/11” the US Agency is ICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which enforces federal laws governing international money laundering. 

ICE along with the Sarasota Police Intel unit and the Sarasota County Sheriff Department were the nexus of a 2002 investigation in Sarasota Fl that was taken over by Sarasota FBI agent Thomas Baugher when it eventually linked to support of terrorism. Same time frame as the so-called 2002 FBI Secret Sarasota Investigation of Abdulazziz al-Hijji’s clan in Prestancia Sarasota Fl. A’int no coincidences in terrorism as FBI agent Thomas Baugher told me on several occasions in 2002 and 2003. Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs Funds 9/11 Via Cash from HLF to Global Relief to WSRA.

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