The FBI on Saturday released a document that was newly declassified regarding the investigation on the September 11, 2001 attacks, in the US and the allegations of the Saudi government support for the hijackers, followed the executive order by President Joe Biden.
The 16-page documents were restored partially released by the FBI on the 20th anniversary of detailed contact attacks between the hijackers and several Saudi officials, but it did not attract the definitive conclusions whether the government in Riyadh was involved in the attack, which killed almost.
3,000 people.
Earlier this month, Biden ordered the Ministry of Justice to review documents from the FBI probe into the attack for declassification and liberation.
The relatives of the victims have been pushed for years for more information about what the FBI found in his government and argued that the documents would show the authorities of Saudi Arabia supported the plot.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia.
The kingdom had long said it did not have a role in the attack.
Saudi Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comments sent from hours late on Saturday.
The US Government Commission in 2004 did not find evidence that Saudi Arabia immediately funded Al-Qaida, the group provided a safe place by the Taliban in Afghanistan at that time.
It is left open whether Saudi individual officials may have.
The family was around 2,500 of those who were killed in the attack, and more than 20,000 people suffering from injury, business and various insurance companies, had sued Saudi Arabia who were looking for billions of dollars.
In a statement issued on September 8, the Embassy said Saudi Arabia always advocated transparency around the September 11, 2001 incident, and welcomed the release by the US from documents relating to the attack.
“When the past investigation has revealed, including the 9/11 commission and the release of what is called ’28 pages’, there is no evidence that has ever appeared to show that the Saudi government or its officials have previous knowledge of terrorist attacks or are in whatever way involved , “said the embassy statement.
In a statement on behalf of the 9/11 family organization, Terry Strada, whose husband Tom was killed on September 11, said the documents released by the FBI on Saturday were put into a bed of doubts about Saudi’s involvement in the attack.
“Now the Saudis secret is exposed and has passed the past for the kingdom to bring up the role of his officials in killing thousands of people in American land,” said the statement.
Biden has taken a harder attitude with Saudi Arabia than its predecessor Donald Trump, criticizing the empire on the record of human rights while releasing US intelligence reports involving Prince Crown Mohammed bin Salman at the murder of the Saudi Khashoggi reading journalist 2018.
Prince denied involvement.
9/11 papers revealed the Saudi Link, not conclusive about involvement
