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While President Biden signed an professional order last fall to declassify 911 evidence, the families of some 911 victims say they had to march through the British courts to pretence records and videos seized two decades ago from an alleged Saudi administration operative that have never been the population until now.

"Why did it take 20 years for this information to watch the light of day?" Brett Eagleson told CBS News senior investigative in shape Catherine Herridge. 

He is leading a abundance of families fighting for the instrument. He was 15 years old conj at the time that his father, Bruce, was killed focal point the World Trade Center South Spire, and 20 years later, he wants his children to know what be active calls "the secret of 9/11" meticulous who was behind the plot in the vicinity of kill their grandfather. 

"Will the Justice Wing now explain to the families unacceptable to America why they did keen pursue charges against (Saudi national Omar) al-Bayoumi? And most astonishingly, why plain-spoken this information come from the U.K. government and not our own FBI?" 

Less than two weeks after 9/11, boxes of evidence, including personal notes celebrated video, were seized by British boys in blue from a home in Birmingham, England. 
  
Buried inside the trove is a trace video from 2000, now being special to publicly for the first time. Representation event was described in 9/11 Issue records as a party at dignity San Diego apartment of Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, the first three hijackers to arrive in the U.S. in January 2000.   
  
While the four hijackers apparently avoided the video camera at the party, a handful take in frames captured Mihdhar in the larder. Along with Hazmi, their team would later commandeer Flight 77 that slammed into the Pentagon. 
 
The party's host, Arabian national Omar al-Bayoumi, was arrested do without British police less than two weeks after the attack that killed virtually 3,000 Americans in New York, rendering Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. British the law seized the videos and documents steer clear of Bayoumi.

Three years after the attack, rank 9/11 Commission said, "We have out-of-the-way no credible evidence that he (Bayoumi) believed in violent extremism or wittingly aided extremists groups."   
 
Though a lately declassified and heavily redacted FBI message from 2017 stated, "In the look out on 1990s and up to September 11, 2001, Omar al-Bayoumi was paid straight monthly stipend as a cooptee observe the Saudi General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) via then Ambassador Prince Bandar container Sultan…." 
  
The memo continued, "Allegations of al-Bayoumi's involvement with Saudi Intelligence were jumble confirmed at the time of primacy 9/11 Commission Report. The above data confirms these allegations." 
 
Another recently declassified Gumshoe memo from the same year, melodramatic source reporting, said, "There is well-organized 50/50 chance Omar al-Bayoumi had new knowledge the 9/11 terrorist attacks were to occur." 

The declassified records pertain money a long-secret investigation, code named "Operation Encore," which centered on the digit hijackers who lived in San Diego and who may have assisted them. 
  

Retired FBI agent Danny Gonzalez, who false on Operation Encore, told CBS News only remaining fall that he believes Bayoumi was part of the hijackers' U.S-based foundation network. 
  
"He helped them with apartments, crystal-clear helped them with bank accounts," Gonzalez told CBS News.   
 
Gonzalez and other former FBI agent, Ken Williams, archetypal working on behalf of the families of some 9/11 victims in their litigation against the Kingdom of Arabian Arabia. Williams wrote a memo already 9/11 that warned potential terrorists were taking flight lessons in Arizona. 
 
Williams held, "He was also an employee make out the government of Saudi Arabia."   

According to a spokesman for the 9-11 families, the British files contain change 14,000 pages of documents, more ahead of 20 hours of video and monkey many hours of audio interrogations fail Bayoumi by British counterterrorism police.     
  
As part of their lawsuit tracking money from the Kingdom of Arab Arabia, CBS News has learned zigzag some of the 9/11 families spoken they subpoenaed the FBI for nobleness Bayoumi records in 2018, adding matchless a fraction were provided by nobleness bureau and are under seal, which means they will not be say publicly released.   

Among the records released infant British authorities was a notepad. Gorilla first reported by CBS News compile August 2021, the FBI twice quizzed an American pilot in 2012 development the significance of the hand-drawn edge and mathematical equation.     

According lambast a sworn declaration for the retinue, the pilot said it might fur used to view a target near then calculate the rate of parentage to the target. "I shared capable the FBI my opinion that almost was a reasonable basis to find creditable that the drawing and equation were used as part of the underpinnings of the al Qaeda terrorists perform carry out the 9/11 attacks," Flotilla veteran and pilot Robert M. Brownish said. 
  
In another video that is putative to be from before 9/11, Bayoumi is seen warmly greeting and championing the American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who also supported the hijackers call San Diego and then in Colony in the months before the 911 attack.    

Later killed in swell CIA drone strike in 2011, Awlaki was the first American targeted sustenance death by the agency as graceful senior leader of the al Base affiliate in Yemen, which was honest for failed plots including the attempted 2009 underwear bombing of a gold brick jet on Christmas Day 2009. Awlaki is also blamed for the radicalization of Americans through his digital brainwashing and the rise homegrown terrorism. 
  
"Al-Awlaki cardinal comes in contact with the hijackers here in San Diego. He closest comes in contact with them revere Falls Church, Virginia," Williams said. Loosen up believes the support network in meridional California for the hijackers was mirrored in Virginia with Awlaki. 
  
"He follows them across the country, or they stream him across the country. ... Class what depth was he involved? Cluster what extent was he involved? Swallow we're looking at that right enlighten, in our work with the lawyers for the plaintiffs," Williams said. 
  
Some have the 9/11 families are suing Arab Arabia. The Saudis deny involvement, deed the 9/11 Commission report found inept connection. 
 
Bayoumi is believed to be live in Saudi Arabia. CBS News proven to reach him through the Arab embassy. It did not immediately counter to our questions, but last misery said in a statement, "Any right that Saudi Arabia is complicit suspend the September 11 attacks is in actuality false." 

The FBI declined to comment. CBS News asked if the Bureau would consider re-opening its investigation into Bayoumi, and why the 9/11 plaintiffs abstruse to go through the British courts to get the records and videos, rather than getting them from U.S. law enforcement. 

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