‘Giant Screwup’: FBI Mistakenly Leaks Name of Saudi Official Suspected of Involvement in 9/11

‘Giant Screwup’: FBI Mistakenly Leaks Name of Saudi Official Suspected of Involvement in 9/11 

Over a generation after a group of al-Qaeda* terrorists killed nearly three thousand Americans in a series of coordinated attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a hijacked airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania on route to Washington, D.C., questions continue to swirl regarding who else was behind the acts of terror. The Federal Bureau of Investigation ‘accidentally’ disclosed the name of a Saudi diplomat accused of providing assistance to two of the al-Qaeda* hijackers who rammed a plane into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001,Yahoo News has reported, citing a new court declaration filed by a senior FBI official as part of an ongoing lawsuit by families of victims who accuse Riyadh of complicity in the attacks.