By Robbyn Swan, FloridaBulldog.org
Fifteen months before 9/11, multiple phone calls were exchanged between a Saudi prince’s cell phone and the San Diego home of two al Qaeda operatives who helped hijack American Airlines Flight 77 and crash it into the Pentagon, declassified FBI documents say.
The prince, Nawaf bin Saud bin Mohammed bin al Saud, had made no previous calls to the house, and would never do so again.
Within days, the hijackers, along with a friend, would drive two hours north to Los Angeles where they would reportedly meet with a Saudi consular official the FBI has called a “close contact of the 9/11 hijackers’ support network,” Fahad al Thumairy. The next day future hijacker Khalid al Mihdhar would board a flight to the Middle East.
Surveillance film from a security camera at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), unearthed years later by FBI agents reviewing the case, captured the hijackers and their friend – a Yemeni immigrant named Mohdar Abdullah – as they walked through the airport. An unidentified man, who appeared to be accompanying them, is seen surreptitiously filming airport security arrangements.
The FBI came to think the prince, or a brother who was with him in Los Angeles – Prince Meteb bin Saud bin Mohammed bin al Saud – held the key to unlocking this troubling episode. And as Florida Bulldog first reported in February 2022 FBI records about Operation Encore ordered declassified by President Biden in 2021 show that starting in 2007 agents sought repeatedly to obtain then-director Robert Mueller’s approval to question the two princes who they believed might help them identify the unknown man in the LAX video.
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