In 2005, Ambassador Bandar was recalled by Riyadh. Why?
The New York Post published a piece by Hoover Institution media fellow Paul Sperry: "'Our investigations contributed to the ambassador's departure,' an investigator who worked with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington told me."
What were these investigations related to Bandar?
All of the page references below are to the 28 pages where they appear as the concluding chapter of the report of the Joint House and Senate Intelligence Committees' Inquiry into the attacks of 9-11.
One of several investigations implicating Bandar covered in the 28 pages produced documentary evidence that Bandar and his wife directly sent more than $100,000 to a man named Bassnan and his wife (Page 427) while Bassnan resided across the street in San Diego from two of the Saudi 9-11 hijackers (Page 417).
The 28 pages cite an FBI document that states that Bassnan and a man named Bayoumi "have been 'close to each other for a long time.'" (Page 417). Bayoumi welcomed the same two hijackers to southern California when they arrived in Feb., 2000. (Page 416). Bayoumi also was being supported by monies traced to the Saudi government, namely from the Saudi Ministry of Defense. (Page 423). Before the two hijackers arrived, Bayoumi's allowance was $465 per month. One month after, this jumped to more than $3700 per month, dropped to $3200 when one of the hijackers left San Diego in Dec. 2000, and stayed at that amount until Aug. 2001 when Bayoumi left the U.S. "approximately one month before the Sept. 11 attacks." (Page 425).
Bayoumi arranged for a translator for the two hijackers (they did not speak English), co-signed their lease for the apartment they shared with a "long-time FBI informant" and helped them obtain drivers licenses and enter flight school. (Page 422).
Bandar's direct beneficiary Bassnan told an FBI asset that he did more for the two hijackers than did Bayoumi (Page 417). Bassnan referred to Osama bin Laden as ruler of the Islamic world and "as if he were a god."(Page 428). Bassnan knew bin Laden's family in Saudi Arabia and was in cell phone contact with bin Ladins living in the U.S. (Page 428). The investigations referred to in the 28 pages cite "many ties [between Bassnan] and the Saudi government."(Page 417). Various American Muslims reported to the FBI that Bassnan might be a Saudi intelligence agent. (Page 417).
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