Arvinder and Robert sitting in the Court…
Old news hitting the headlines again?
https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180910/anderson-did-mueller-mislead-public-about-911
Did Robert Mueller, current special counsel investigating President Donald Trump, play a role in misleading the public about a Sarasota family’s link to anyone connected to the 9/11 attacks?
The family fled their Sarasota home the week before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, leaving behind food, clothes, cars and suspicions. Almost immediately they were on the FBI’s radar. An investigation ensued. Who were they and what did they know?
Their names were Abdulazziz and Anound al-Hijji. They were from Saudi Arabia and lived at 4224 Escondito Circle, a $400,000 home in the gated community of Prestancia. He worked as a valet for a Siesta Key restaurant. She was the daughter of Esam Ghazzawi, a wealthy businessman with connections to the Saudi royal family.
It was believed by some that the family had been in contact with 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, who learned to fly at a small airport in Venice before carrying out the attacks that forever changed our country.
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Shortly after the story was published, Steven E. Ibison, special agent in the FBI’s Tampa field office, issued a statement to the press that said: “At no time did the FBI develop evidence that connected the family members to any of the 9/11 hijackers.″
The statement, however, severely contradicted some of the FBI’s own reports, one of which said, “further investigation of the (name deleted) family revealed many connections between the (name deleted) and individuals associated with the terror attacks on 9/11/01.
http://heraldtribune_com.gm5-lkstage.newscyclecloud.com/news/20190313/ex-saudi-ambassador-no-knowledge-of-sarasotas-911-connection
For 24 years, the American-educated al-Faisal also was the director general of Saudi Arabia’s foreign intelligence service. Following the speech, he said he was unaware of the enduring legal controversies involving Sarasota’s connections to the 9/11 terror attacks.
“What I know is the commission report that was made about 9/11, which came out and was published,” said al-Faisal, who also spoke in Venice, where three of the pilot hijackers lived and learned to fly. “And I remember a few years ago when the so-called sequestered pages were equally released. That’s all I know.
“I have no idea what Mr. Ghazzawi has to do with this or that, or if he had anything to do with that, other than what was published in all of the texts that I’ve seen published in the paper.”
Al-Faisal’s first reference was to the declassification in 2016 of the 28-page summary of the “Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001,” prepared in 2003 for select committees on intelligence for the House and Senate.
The summary, in which the FBI alleged the terrorists received financial support from some members of the Saudi government, including intelligence officers with ties to al-Qaeda, was released — with significant portions, names and sources still redacted — after more than a decade of legal pressure from 9/11 plaintiffs.
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In 2011, working with Irish author Anthony Summers, the online Florida Bulldog investigative journalism platform reported that Prestancia’s former security chief Larry Berberich and an unnamed counter-terrorism official had tied several of the hijacker pilots — including ringleader Mohamed Atta — to the al-Hijji residence using visitor logs, phone records, and license-plate photos from security cameras.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1384673/Smokescreen-of-FBI-innuendo-and-suspicion.html
Raissi's first court appearance, Arvinder Sambei, the British prosecutor representing the American government, said Raissi, 27, was "lead instructor" for four of the hijackers.
She said there was video evidence and telephone records to show that Raissi was in close contact with the key hijackers. Mrs Sambei told the court it was "no secret" that America wanted to prosecute Raissi for conspiracy to murder those who died on September 11.
This was the first in a series of sensational claims from which the FBI, Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service have since retreated.
For five months Raissi, 27, whose uncle is a senior officer in Algeria's anti-terrorist police, has been held in Belmarsh prison on the basis of allegations which, when investigated by journalists and defence lawyers, have proved to be unsubstantiated.