The name of Saudi diplomat Musaed bin Ahmed Al-Jarrah was not known before today to many followers of the ongoing trials in the United States years ago, in which the families of the victims of the September 11 attacks accuse the Saudi government of complicity in the attacks, which Riyadh denies.
However, the disclosure of the "Yahoo News" news site the name of the former official at the Kingdom's embassy in Washington as the mysterious official - who is suspected to have indirectly helped two of the September 11 attacks - gives the file a new impetus.
The US website exclusively released today a report saying that the FBI accidentally revealed the name of the surgeon in a document filed by a bureau official last month to a federal court, in response to a lawsuit filed by the families of the September 11 victims.
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Although the FBI document obscures the name of the Saudi official, the name of the surgeon was incorrectly mentioned in one of the paragraphs, so who is this diplomat who may reveal his name and his role in the course of the September 11 trials?
The path of the man The
surgeon held various diplomatic positions. He was a former official in the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and worked in his country's embassy in Washington DC between 1999 and 2000.
According to what Yahoo News revealed, the surgeon's mission was to supervise the activities of Ministry of Islamic Affairs employees in Saudi Arabia in mosques and Islamic centers funded by Saudi Arabia within the United States.
The site itself quotes former employees of the Saudi embassy in Washington that the surgeon was working under the command of the former Saudi ambassador to America, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
Al-Jarrah then appointed a cultural attaché to the Saudi embassies in Malaysia, Lebanon and the UAE, and more recently to the Kingdom of Morocco until last year.
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On October 9, 2018, the Saudi Ministry of Education tweeted on its Twitter account, saying that the Council of Ministers decided to upgrade the surgeon to a 14th cultural attaché position at the Ministry of Education.
Families of the victims
The name of the Saudi diplomat was mentioned among the names of nine former and subsequent Saudi officials. Lawyers for the families of the September 11 victims say that they suspect they know important information about the conduct of the file.
The families of the victims of the attacks also requested former FBI agents to assist them in the investigation of the activities of potential witnesses, including Ahmed bin Musaed al-Jarrah.
The "Yahoo News" report quotes former FBI agent Catherine Hunt as saying that the surgeon was responsible for the preachers and imams that the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs is sending to the United States, including Fahd al-Thamiri.
Assigning a mission
According to the FBI document, the surgeon suspects that he was assigned from al-Thumiri and Omar al-Bayoumi to assist two of the hijackers of the hijacked plane attack on the Ministry of Defense building in 2001. Bayoumi was a Saudi intelligence agent.
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Catherine Hunt, who provided assistance to the families of the victims of the attacks, says that the FBI believed that the surgeon was providing help and support to Thumairi during the investigations conducted after the September 11 attacks.
"Yahoo News" quotes a former FBI official familiar with the September 11 investigations as saying that FBI officials have found strong evidence of meetings and contacts between the surgeon, al-Thumairi and Bayoumi, who provided assistance to two Saudis who were among the hijackers of the American Airlines plane that struck the Pentagon building. .
However, the FBI investigators could not prove that the surgeon knew that the Saudis, who requested their help, were preparing for attacks on American soil.
Questions are being raised about the possibility of the FBI interrogating the Saudi diplomat, and confronting him with available information regarding his role in supporting the perpetrators of the attacks, and the former FBI official believes that there is no reason why Saudi officials allow American investigators to interrogate the surgeon.
It is noteworthy that the families of the victims of the September 11 attacks have filed lawsuits since 2003 accusing the Riyadh government of complicity in the attacks, and demanding compensation for what was sustained by the attacks that claimed the lives of three thousand people, and these lawsuits gained momentum in 2016 when the Congress passed the Justa Law that It allows Americans to sue foreign governments for terrorism charges.