(NewsNation) — A federal judge is scheduled to rule in a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia over whether key evidence from the 9/11 attacks should be made public more than 20 years after they occurred.
We now have multiple videos showing multiple Saudi government officials (two in particular with ties to the Saudi government) welcoming some of the 9/11 hijackers on U.S. soil shortly before the attack. I know that there is.
Other footage suggests direct links between the Saudi Arabian government and the 9/11 terror plot in which jets were flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and passengers crash a fourth plane into a field in Pennsylvania, which was then flown to a target in Washington DC.
The video has not been made public, but it is detailed in a court filing filed as part of a lawsuit brought by the families of many 9/11 victims against the Saudi government.
Twenty years after the attack, which killed nearly 3,000 people, many of the families are trying to hold the Saudi government accountable, alleging involvement or complicity in the attack itself.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and all were members of al-Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden, who was born in Saudi Arabia and whose family had close ties to the Saudi royal family.
Families say the new footage is the most convincing evidence they have yet discovered and the closest thing to definitive proof linking the Saudi government to the attacks.
They said, “The evidence includes a highly incriminating video of a welcome party that[one of the Saudi officials]hosted for the hijackers, but has never been exploited by the FBI before.” There was no such thing.”
The families have acknowledged that British intelligence produced the videos, including one that purportedly showed one Saudi official, Omar al-Bayoumi, denouncing the attack on the US Capitol.
The documents also show some documentary evidence that the two officials explained and wrote down the mechanics of how to maneuver the plane toward a stationary target on the ground. Some of the hijackers attended flight school in the United States before the attack.
If a judge allows the case to proceed, the video could be used to investigate al-Qaida organizations in the United States.
The Saudi government denies any involvement in the terrorist attack.
