DAMNING evidence was unveiled on the 9/11 terror attacks, 24 years after the nation was rocked by one of the most devastating mass-casualty events in US history.
Footage has emerged as part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by victim families against the Saudi Arabian government in connection with the 2001 attacks.
Omar al-Bayoumi was seen in the video outside of the US Capitol[/caption]
The September 11 attacks killed about 3,000 people[/caption]
The new video evidence was unveiled as part of an ongoing lawsuit[/caption]
The video, recorded in 1999, was turned in to the FBI weeks after 9/11, but field agents did not have access to it, according to a report by 60 Minutes.
The forgotten footage zooms in on the doors to the Capitol, security checkpoints, and a small replica of the building, while also recording other monuments in the city.
Saudi Arabian national Omar al-Bayoumi, the person in the video, was filmed in Washington, D.C. at the US Capitol.
“I am transmitting these scenes to you from the heart of the American capital, Washington,” Omar al-Bayoumi says as a passerby films him.
A plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field on September 11 was believed to be headed to the US Capitol, but passengers aboard the flight stopped it.
Bayoumi, dressed up in a suit and tie in the clip, may have provided support to two of the hijackers, according to a federal report.
The FBI also claimed that they had received tips “alleging that al-Bayoumi may be a Saudi intelligence officer. “
The footage had been found in his UK apartment just days after 9/11. About 80 other tapes had been seized, too.
“The airport is not far away,” he says on camera, zooming in on a flight.
“Here is the airplane taking off from there.”
In one part, he talks about a “plan,” although he doesn’t specify what he is referring to.
“I think he’s talking to the al Qaeda planners who tasked him to take the pre-operational surveillance video of the intended target,” Richard Lambert, a consultant on the lawsuit, said to 60 Minutes.
Gina Bennett, a former senior official at the CIA, said that the video was important to the federal investigation – and yet, field officers have claimed not to have seen the unearthed evidence.
How unidentified remains of 9/11 victims are kept behind wall at Ground Zero with more than 1,000 killed STILL unknown
By The U.S. Sun’s Head of News Frances Mulraney:
Twenty-four years after the 9/11 terror attacks, the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has identified the remains of three more victims, a glimmer of hope in the largest and most complex forensic investigation in US history.
Despite these breakthroughs, the remains of 1,100 victims—40% of the total death toll—are still unaccounted for.
“Twenty years ago, we made a promise to the families of World Trade Center victims to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to identify their loved ones,” Dr. Barbara A. Sampson, Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, told The U.S. Sun back in 2021.
“We pledge to use all the tools at our disposal to make sure all those who were lost can be reunited with their families.”
A PROMISE KEPT
The relentless effort is led by Mark Desire, assistant director of the OCME Department of Forensic Biology, who was himself injured in the attack.
Desire and his team of ten have spent two decades pushing the boundaries of forensic science to extract DNA from the badly degraded remains.
Over 1.8 million tons of debris were painstakingly sifted through, first at Ground Zero and then at Fresh Kills in Staten Island.
While early identifications were made through dental records and fingerprints, the vast majority of remains were too damaged to be identified by old technology.
Desire explained that the extreme conditions—jet fuel, compression, and other factors—destroyed much of the DNA.
“The commitment today is as strong as it was in 2001,” Desire said. “We will not give up on it, no matter how many times those samples fail.”
The team has built the largest DNA data bank in history, with 17,000 reference samples from victims’ families.
They are now using new techniques, including grinding bone fragments with liquid nitrogen, to test samples that were previously deemed hopeless.
This ongoing work is a testament to a city’s promise to never forget and to provide closure to the thousands of families still waiting for their loved ones to come home.
“We didn’t expect that this was a ‘one and done.’ We expected al Qaeda to continue to try,” Bennett said on the show.
“Resources were going entirely to trying to undermine any additional plotting.”
Bayoumi was ultimately never charged and moved back to Saudi Arabia.
“My conclusion is that Bayoumi was an al Qaeda facilitator. He had sympathies with al Qaeda–I mean ideologically–and that he provided substantial support to these two individuals, these two hijackers, without which they may very well have been caught,” Bennett said.
“Is there any other evidence that’s sitting in a box somewhere or, you know, locked up?”
Earlier this month, three victims were newly identified due to advanced technology.
The man in the video talks about a “plan”[/caption]
