Intelligence agent pictured partying with 9/11 hijackers sparking fears of 'secret' plot
dailystar.co.ukSaudi operative was caught on camera hosting a party with two men involved with the devastating 9/11 attacks in the US 2001.Saudi national Omar al-Bayoumi, was arrested by UK police less than two weeks after the attack that killed nearly 3,000 Americans in New York, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.Home video footage is said to show him mingling at his San Diego apartment with Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, the first two hijackers to arrive in the US in January 2000.Elsewhere, he is seen meeting with Saudi officials and embracing Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric accused by US officials of being an an-Qaeda operative.British police seized the videos and documents from Bayoumi twenty years ago, and they've only become public now, thanks to the efforts of the families of some 9/11 victims, who say they had to go through the British courts to get the records."Why did it take 20 years for this information to see the light of day?" Brett Eagleson, who was 15-years-old when his father, Bruce, was killed in the World Trade Center, told CBS News.He wants his children to know what he calls "the secret of 9/11", who was behind the plot to kill their grandfather. "Will the Justice Department now explain to the families and to America why they did not pursue charges against (Saudi national Omar) al-Bayoumi? "And most astonishingly, why did this information come from the U.K.
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