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Title: Saudi Royal Ties to 9/11 hijackers via Saudi Family
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URL Source: http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/09/22/sa ... rs-via-florida-saudi-family-0/
Published: Sep 22, 2011
Author: Russ Baker
Post Date: 2013-03-03 18:29:19 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 571
Comments: 32

WhoWhatWhy has found evidence linking the Saudi royal family to Saudis in South Florida who reportedly had direct contact with the 9/11 hijackers before fleeing the United States just prior to the attacks. Our report connects some of the dots first laid out by investigative author Anthony Summers and Florida-based journalist Dan Christensen in articles jointly published in the Miami Herald and on the nonprofit news site BrowardBulldog.org.

In early September of this year, Summers and Christensen reported that a secret FBI probe, never shared with Congressional investigators or the presidential 9/11 commission, had uncovered information indicating the possibility of support for the hijackers from previously unknown confederates in the United States during 2001.

Now WhoWhatWhy reveals that those alleged confederates were closely tied to influential members of the Saudi ruling elite.

The House

As reported in the Herald, phone records documented communication, dating back more than a year, that connected a Saudi family then living in a house near Sarasota, Florida, with the alleged plot leader, Mohammed Atta, and his hijack pilots—as well as to eleven of the other hijackers. In addition, records from the guard house at the gated community tied Atta’s vehicle and his accomplice Ziad Jarrah to actual visits to the house. Although requiring further investigation, this information suggests that the house may have functioned as an operational base for the hijackers.

According to interviews and records examined by The Herald, Anoud and Abdulazzi al-Hiijjii and their young twins abruptly departed their home in Sarasota only days before September 11, 2001 and traveled to Arlington, Virginia, where they stayed briefly at another house owned by Anoud’s father, Esam Ghazzawi.

Then, still well before 9/11, the entire group, now including the father, flew to London and on to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Sarasota house was sold in 2003, as was a penthouse apartment in another DC, suburb, Rosslyn, Virginia. The Ghazzawis do not seem to have set foot again in the United States.

New Revelations

Building on these revelations, WhoWhatWhy has found documents laying out the Ghazzawis’ royal connections through a nest of Saudi corporations that share the name EIRAD. Esam Ghazzawi is director of EIRAD Management Company, the UK division of EIRAD Trading and Contracting Co. Ltd., which among other things holds the Saudi franchise for many multinational brands, including UPS. Esam’s brother Mamdouh, whose name shows up on public records associated with family properties in the U.S., is the Executive Managing Director of the parent firm, EIRAD Holding Co. Ltd. EIRAD has connections to the US government via contracts. In 2008, records show, the State Department paid EIRAD $11,733 for rental of facilities, presumably in Saudi Arabia.

There is no indication that the company itself, or any of its officers or employees, have any connection to the 9/11 incident, or knowledge of anything regarding Mr. Ghazzawi’s activities in the United States. Calls for comment to the company’s main switchboard went unanswered during normal business hours; its website was not functioning properly and Saudi trade officials in the United States had not furnished alternative contact information at publication time.

But the now-revealed link between the Ghazzawis and the highest ranks of the Saudi establishment reopens questions about the White House’s controversial approval for multiple charter flights allowing Saudi nationals to depart the U.S., beginning about 48 hours after the attacks, without the passengers being interviewed by law enforcement—despite the identification of the majority of the hijackers as Saudis.

In addition, the new revelations draw further attention to a web of relationships that include the long and close business, personal and political ties between the Bush family and the Saudi royal family.

Saudi money is woven throughout business ventures connected to the Bushes. Saudi funds even helped bail out George W. Bush’s failing oil company early in his life. Jim Bath, a close friend of Bush in the Texas Air National Guard, went on to start a business in conjunction with two sons of powerful Saudi families—Khalid bin Mahfouz, whose family provides banking services to the Saudi royals, and Salem bin Laden, heir to the bin Laden family’s global construction empire and a half brother to Osama bin Laden. (For a detailed probe of the Bush family’s dealings with the Saudis, including substantial previously unreported material, see my book, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years.)

Details of The Herald’s Revelations

The Ghazzawi presence in the Sunshine State predated 9/11 by at least six years. In 1995 a young Saudi woman named Anoud Ghazzawi living in South Florida married a fellow Saudi native, Abdulazzi al-Hiijjii (English spellings of his first name and surname vary, as is typical of Arabic names.) Anoud’s father, Esam, and his American-born wife Deborah bought the couple a stylish, three-bedroom house in a gated community in Sarasota. The house remained in the elder Ghazzawis’ names while the young couple lived there and began a family.

Six years later, less than two weeks before the 9/11 attacks, Anoud, Abdulazzi and their children left their home on or about August 30, 2001 in great haste, taking off in a white van. This was about the same time that the hijackers were purchasing their tickets for the targeted flights.

The family apparently left with no advance planning, leaving behind almost all their possessions, abandoning three recently registered vehicles, including a brand-new Chrysler PT Cruiser, in the garage and driveway. As the Herald article explained:

“there was mail on the table, dirty diapers in one of the bathrooms … all the toiletries still in place … all their clothes hanging in the closet … opulent furniture, equal or greater in value than the house … the pool running, with toys in it….The beds were made … fruit on the counter … the refrigerator full of food. … It was like they went grocery shopping. Like they went out to a movie … [But] the safe was open in the master bedroom, with nothing in it, not a paper clip. … A computer was still there. A computer plug in another room, and the line still there. Looked like they’d taken [another] computer and left the cord.”

After public disclosure of Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks, people in the gated community took note of the rushed departure and disappearance of the Ghazzawi-al-Hiijjiis. After all, the attackers were not just overwhelmingly of Saudi nationality, but three out of four of the future hijackers had lived and trained to fly in Venice, Florida, just 10 miles away from the house.

The complex’s security officer alerted the FBI, which began an investigation into the house at 4224 Escondito Circle. (In addition, a suspicious neighbor alerted the FBI by email on the day of the attacks.)

The Justice Department declined to give the Herald a statement, but, according to an unnamed senior counterterrorism officer who was one of two people who got into the house first and served as a key source for the paper, the investigation bore stunning fruit.

Ziad Jarrah

Phone records showed communication, dating back more than a year, that connected those in the house with the alleged plot leader, Mohammed Atta and his accomplices, including eleven of the other hijackers. Other records, kept by guards at the gated community, documented numerous visits to the house by a vehicle known to have been used by Atta, and indicated the physical presence in the car of Atta’s purported accomplice Ziad Jarrah. It appeared as if the Ghazzawi house was some kind of nerve center for the entire operation.

According to the senior counterterrorism officer, both Esam Ghazzawi and his son-in-law al-Hiijjii had been on a watch list at the FBI predating 9/11. An unnamed U.S. agency tracking terror funds had also taken an interest in them. “464 was Ghazzawi’s number,” the officer said. “I don’t remember the other man’s number.”

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

it's mildly interesting that PNAC signatory and rabbi dov zakheim was CEO of SPC, which developed a remote control system for aircraft

clinton disabled the GPS selective availability, which meant that civilians had access to more accurate GPS that could have been used to, for instance, program an airliner to fly under the brooklyn bridge

that kinda eliminates the need for pilots...

doesnt eliminate the need for patsies, though, does it?

lead.and.lag  posted on  2013-03-03   18:50:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: lead.and.lag (#1)

PNAC signatory and rabbi dov zakheim was CEO of SPC, which developed a remote control system for aircraft

One more remarkable co inkidink.

tom007  posted on  2013-03-03   19:07:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: tom007 (#2) (Edited)

remote control system for aircraft

the hijackers flew the planes by remote control?

edit: j/k

remote control eliminates the need for hijackers

no planes eliminates the need for remote control

cheaper too

bottom line

... discount psyops inc.

wudidiz  posted on  2013-03-03   22:56:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: wudidiz (#4)

in september of 2000, a year before 9/11, a saudi think tank said they needed a new pearl harbor in america.

the american presidential election of 2000 was decided by a vote recount in a state governed by a member of that saudi think tank.

after the election, members of that saudi think tank were installed in some of the highest positions in the american government, including vice president and secretary of defense.

a few months after that, the saudis' new pearl harbor happened.

that's why we bombed afghanistan and iraq

lead.and.lag  posted on  2013-03-03   23:21:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: lead.and.lag (#5)

saudi think tank

they weren't saudis

wudidiz  posted on  2013-03-03   23:24:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: wudidiz (#6) (Edited)

they weren't saudis

what!?!

you're telling me the members of that saudi think tank, like cheney, rumsfeld, wolfowitz, perle, zakheim, kristol, the kagans, the podhoretzs, the worumsers, abrams...

...all those people are not saudis and members of the saudis' PNAC think tank?

that's hard to believe

lead.and.lag  posted on  2013-03-03   23:30:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: lead.and.lag (#7)

don't believe it then

wudidiz  posted on  2013-03-03   23:40:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: wudidiz (#8) (Edited)

why did chertoff and pinkas have to wait two months to release the dancing israeli mossad agents and ship them back to saudi arabia, i wonder...

were they waiting to make sure the official conspiracy theory would hold?

thank goodness for the anthrax attacks, huh?

those anthrax letters made it pretty clear to potential malcontents what was at stake...

lead.and.lag  posted on  2013-03-03   23:45:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: lead.and.lag (#9)

release the dancing israeli mossad agents and ship them back to saudi arabia

they're from saudi arabia?

wudidiz  posted on  2013-03-04   0:02:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: wudidiz (#13) (Edited)

forgot the /sarcasm tag

and in case anyone is still confused, all references to "saudi think tank" are sarcastic subsitutions for PNAC, which is a spinoff of the american enterprise institute (AEI), which is the american arm of the likud party of israel

lead.and.lag  posted on  2013-03-04   0:03:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: lead.and.lag (#14)

I was wondering wth you were talking about.

wudidiz  posted on  2013-03-04   0:12:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: wudidiz (#15) (Edited)

these guys probably dont do anything without layers of fallbacks, and i've been wondering for a while now if the "saudi hijackers" story could have led, in the best of all neocon worlds, to a grab for saudi's oil...

maybe that was the first big thing to go haywire with the plan... crusader bunnypants' long friendship witht he saudis... i guess it's possible

the second best plan would be bin laden, maybe...

the second big thing to go haywire was putin's reclaiming russian oil from the israeli russian oligarchs... who were scheduled to guarantee oil supplies to israeli america as the middle east was torn up and rearranged to israeli specifications

lead.and.lag  posted on  2013-03-04   0:37:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: All (#17) (Edited)

and i got to say that the whole goddamned operation is unbelievably stupid despite neocons' belief that they can "create their own reality"...

we dont really know how many of those "hijackers" were ever real people, do we?

we do know, however, that some of them turned up after 9/11, alive and pissed off.

the whole operation is too chickenshit to survive, which leads us to the third layer fallback, looting... which may have been all the neocns wanted in the first place

...looting enough to buy refuge once it all starts coming apart... at which point we got to wonder if americans will take a page out of the israeli nazi hunters' playbook, and start hunting neocons

lead.and.lag  posted on  2013-03-04   0:58:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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