The Truth About 9/11

Over two decades after the 9/11 attacks, a major piece of evidence has emerged that could change what we thought we knew. This information was actually handed to the FBI shortly after the attacks — but shockingly, it never reached their top investigators or intelligence leadership.

The evidence comes out now due to a lawsuit filed by families of 9/11 victims. They’re suing the Saudi government, claiming it supported the hijackers. One of the biggest revelations is a video from 1999 showing a Saudi national, Omar al-Bayoumi, filming the U.S. Capitol and nearby landmarks while speaking in Arabic, saying things like, “I am transmitting these scenes to you from the heart of the American capital.”

Bayoumi wasn’t just any tourist. FBI reports show he lived in the U.S. on a student visa but never attended classes. Instead, he was allegedly working with Saudi intelligence and had close ties to two of the 9/11 hijackers. He helped them move to San Diego, found them an apartment, co-signed their lease, helped with bank accounts, and even filmed one of them at a party.

Investigators now believe the hijackers of Flight 93 (which crashed in Pennsylvania) were actually aiming for the U.S. Capitol — the same building Bayoumi obsessively filmed from all angles in 1999.

Even more troubling, the FBI recovered the Capitol video from Bayoumi’s U.K. apartment in September 2001 — along with 80 other tapes and suspicious documents — but the key video was never shared with agents working the case. Years later, in 2012, an FBI technician randomly contacted a former agent about boxes labeled with Bayoumi’s name sitting in a warehouse — boxes that were about to be destroyed.

Inside was more evidence: a sketch of an airplane and a hand-written math formula that aviation experts say could help calculate the trajectory of a descending plane — the kind of math useful for someone trying to crash into a building.

None of this was known to FBI field agents or even top CIA officials. Former counterterrorism analyst Gina Bennett said this was a major intelligence failure. She believes Bayoumi wasn’t just a helpful bystander, but an al Qaeda facilitator who played a key role in helping the hijackers operate undetected in the U.S.

Despite all this, Bayoumi was never charged and currently lives freely in Saudi Arabia. He claims his ties to the hijackers were pure coincidence. But U.S. investigators, including former FBI agents, say that’s impossible — they found no record of him helping anyone else, only those two specific hijackers.

Now, the 9/11 families’ lawsuit is pushing forward, and a federal judge will soon decide whether to allow the case against the Saudi government to continue. The FBI has declined to comment.