FLASHBACK NEWS 11/24/02
Newsweek: Saudi Money Trail Bush doesnt want you to know
AND keep in mind as you read this NEWSWEEK report - the French intelligence agents reports of THE lead FBI terrorist investigator - John O'Neill QUIT the FBI in complete disgust of Bush STOPPING his investigations into Saudis & Bin Laden family members once Bush siezed the White House in Jan 2001.
FBI's lead terrorism investigator- O'Neill, had to sneak around the FBI's head Mr Freeh.
John O'Neill went directly to Janet Reno to report what the FBI Hdqtrs would not allow into investigating Bin Laden & Saudis.
This was reported on the Special PBS report on John O'Neill,
only the PBS report failed to report, censored? the French intelligence
book which reported on O'Neill's resignation of complete disgust.
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try this link
http://www.hvk.org/articles/1202/273.htmloriginal link -
http://www.msnbc.com/news/839269.aspThe Saudi Money Trail
Rent payments for 9-11 hijackers and mysterious checks from a princess’s account. Is there a Saudi tie to terror? Inside the probe the Bush administration doesn’t want you to know about
By Michael Isikoff And Evan Thomas
NEWSWEEK
Dec. 2 issue — When the two Qaeda operatives arrived at Los Angeles International Airport around New Year’s 2000, they were warmly welcomed. Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar would help hijack American Airlines Flight 77 and crash it into the Pentagon a year and a half later, but that January in Los Angeles, they were just a couple of young Saudi men who barely spoke English and needed a place to stay.
AT THE AIRPORT, THEY were swept up by a gregarious fellow Saudi, Omar al-Bayoumi, who had been living in the United States for several years. Al-Bayoumi drove the two men to San Diego, threw a welcoming party and arranged for the visitors to get an apartment next to his. He guaranteed the lease, and plunked down $1,550 in cash to cover the first two months’ rent. His hospitality did not end there.
Al-Bayoumi also aided Alhazmi and Almihdhar as they opened a bank account, and recruited a friend to help them obtain Social Security cards and call flight schools in Florida to arrange flying lessons, according to law-enforcement officials. Two months before 9-11, al-Bayoumi moved to England; several months later, he disappeared. He is believed to be somewhere in Saudi Arabia.
MYSTERY MAN
Who is al-Bayoumi? At various times, the affable father of four told people that he was getting his doctorate at San Diego State, though the school has no record he ever attended. He told others that he was a pilot for the Saudi national airline. He apparently did work for Dallah Avco, an aviation-services company with extensive contracts with the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation, headed by Prince Sultan, the father of the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar. According to informed sources, some federal investigators suspect that al-Bayoumi could have been an advance man for the 9-11 hijackers, sent by Al Qaeda to assist the plot that ultimately claimed 3,000 lives.
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