On Saturday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released recently declassified documents related to the investigation into the 9/11 attacks and alleged allegations of Saudi government support for the kidnappers.
The 16-page document is the first of its kind to be published following an executive order issued last week by President Biden.
In the heavily drafted documents, the FBI said they interviewed a man in 2015 who had frequent contact with Saudi citizens in the U.S. who helped the first kidnappers to arrive in the country – Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar – before of the attacks.
The document, published on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, detailed that the kidnappers had contact with Saudi partners in the US, but did not draw the definitive conclusion that senior Saudi government officials were complicit in the attacks.
According to the Associated Press, 15 of the 19 kidnappers were from Saudi Arabia.
The PA reported that the Saudi government has long denied any involvement in the 9/11 attacks.