New evidence submitted in an ongoing 9/11 lawsuit against the Saudi government claims that the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington may have funded a “dry run” for the hijackings.
According to the documents, two years before the attacks, the Saudi embassy paid two Saudi nationals, who were living in the US as students, to fly from Phoenix to Washington “in a dry run for the 9/11 attacks”.
The complaint was filed on behalf of the 1,400 family members of the victims who died in the Twin Towers attack in 2001.
Sean Carter, lead lawyer for the plaintiffs, said, “We’ve long asserted that there were longstanding and close relationships between al Qaeda and the religious components of the Saudi government.”
The New York Post reported that the lawsuit argued that “a pattern of both financial and operational support” from the Saudi government helped the hijackers in the months before the attacks.
FBI documents claimed the two Saudi nationals were members of “the Kingdom’s network of agents” in the US. The documents claimed the men trained in Afghanistan with a number of other al-Qaeda operatives that participated in the attacks.
