Years ago, the commission wrote that when it came to the Saudi diplomat Fahad al-Thumairy, "We have not found evidence that Thumairy provided assistance to the two hijackers." A decade later, it appears FBI agents came to a different conclusion. While the commission was largely unable to tie the Saudi men to the hijackers, the FBI document describes multiple connections and phone calls. Families of the 9/11 victims have long sought after the report, which painted a starkly different portrait than the one described by the 9/11 Commission Report in 2004. The partially redacted report shows a closer relationship than had been previously known between two Saudis in particular - including one with diplomatic status - and some of the hijackers. The document, written in 2016, summarized an FBI investigation into those ties called Operation ENCORE. The Biden administration has declassified a 16-page FBI report tying 9/11 hijackers to Saudi nationals living in the United States. The partially redacted FBI report paints a closer relationship than had been previously known between two Saudis in particular - including one with diplomatic status - and some of the hijackers.
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