The US FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigation has disclosed some of the investigation material on the terrorist attacks that occurred 20 years ago.
The bereaved families of the case allegedly suspected the involvement of the Saudi Arabian government, but no clear evidence or conclusions were found in this material.
Bereaved families have called for disclosure of investigative information about the terrorist attacks in the United States, including suspected involvement of mastermind Osama bin Laden and the government of Saudi Arabia, the country of origin of many of the perpetrators. I did.
In response, President Biden signed an executive order on the 3rd of this month instructing relevant agencies to consider declassifying the material, and on the 11th, just 20 years after the incident, the FBI has so far classified it. We have disclosed some of the investigation materials that we were doing.
Disclosure this time is a 16-page document prepared in 2016 about the investigation of the relationship between the perpetrator of terrorism and the collaborators in the United States.
The document contains interviews with Saudi Arabian consulate officials in Los Angeles, but many are blacked out and no clear evidence or conclusions have been found regarding the involvement of the Saudi government. bottom.
This document is the first material disclosed in response to the Presidential Decree, and it is expected that there will be other materials to be disclosed in the future.