BREAKING NEWS: Path Clearing In the 9/11 Case For Kingdom of Saudi Arabia To Face Trial

Judge Daniels, of the Federal Court in the Southern District of New, just delivered a decision and order to deny KSA’s motion to dismiss.

This motion was initially brought to the SDNY by KSA in 2004.

Judge Daniels accepted evidence that undeniably links Saudi officials to provide financial and logistical support to hijackers.

The judge did not buy that the drawing of an airplane with equations related to the height and distance of a plane’s flight path, (found in Omar al-Bayoumi’s London apartment) had any reasonable explanation, dismissing a claim of being his son’s high school homework assignment, asserting the drawing “facially (directly) connects Bayoumi, with knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.” The judge further finds that Bayoumi’s 1999 videotaping casing of the Capitol, supporting FBI documents indicating him as a Saudi intelligence asset. Additional evidence proved he had frequent contact with consular official and Imam Fahad al-Thumairy, employed by KSA’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs (MOIA), also alleged to have direct links with two of the 9/11 hijackers with whom Bayoumi lived in California. Thumairy was chief Imam at the King Fahad Mosque in Culver City, California and a diplomatic employee at the Saudi Arabian Consulate General in Los Angeles. The judge finds that “KSA sent Omar Al Bayoumi and Al Fahad Thumairy to the U.S.,” as government employees, concluding that “Plaintiffs have shown that Bayoumi, Thumairy, and KSA knowingly, or at least with deliberate indifference, supporting the hijackers’ terrorist activity,” by “providing assistance to the hijackers” in the U.S.

Much of the evidence presented had been turned over to the FBI in the early weeks after the 9/11 attacks, by the British police force, and questionably mishandled by the FBI and CIA, downplaying the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s ties to al-Qaeda plotters and their role in the 9/11 attacks. Here.

Further, The court asserts, “Plaintiffs present sufficient facts to support a reasonable inference that their claims satisfy the JASTA exception.”

The years of investigation and arguments that this ruling builds upon, has been bolstered by the efforts of 9/11 families in the 2016 passage of the Justice Against Sponsor’s of Terrorism Act (JASTA- Public Law No. 114-222). JASTA law amends the Foreign Soverign Immunities Act, Anti-Terrorism Act, and the Effective Death Penalty Act. It allows all victims of international terrorism to file suits, holding foreign governments not designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism, accountable when providing support to terrorism acts inflicted upon American citizens. The act waives soverign immunity for foreign states casuing injury or death in the United States by an act of international terrorism in the U.S. or tortious acts of agents of that foreign state while in office or employed regardless of where the the acts occurred here, and here.

Promise of Justice demands transparency and accountability. We will not stop until every line of truth is unveiled and every path of justice is secured— for generations to come!