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In an exclusive interview with CBS News, former FBI agent Danny Gonzalez said "19 hijackers cannot commit 3,000 mass murders by themselves."
Potential terrorists were taking flight lessons in arizona. both men are now working for the families. >> the evidence is there, i've seen it, but i can't get into specifics because of the protective order. >> reporter: the 9/11 families are suing saudi arabia for money. the saudis deny official involvement, and the 9/11 commission report found no connection. but operation encore started two years after the commission's report. if we go through the team's records from operation encore... >> right. >> reporter: what would the public learn? >> a lot, a lot. >> reporter: would it change our under...
Arabia helped the 9/11 hijackers. we get more now from cbs's catherine herridge, including an exclusive interview with two former investigators.>> reps that's my dad.en his father >> reporter: eagleson is now leading a group of 9/11 families battling their own government to release still-secret f.b.i. files from the case. >> it's a ten-year-long investigation, that specifically investigated the role that the kingdom of saudi arabia played in supporting the hijackers. >> reporter: the case, code-named operation encore, centered on the two hijackers that lived in san diego, and who assisted them...
Themselves. >> reporter: based on what you found, do you believe there was a domestic support network for the hijackers? >> obviously. >> reporter: no question? >> but i can't comment on it. but you don't have to be an f.b.i. agent with 26 years of experience to figure that out. >> reporter: gonzalez says the two hijackers, nawaf al hazmi and khalid al mihdhar, were helped by a number of saudis, including omar al bayoumi. bayoumi was working for the saudi government, and has said he randomly ran into the two hijackers at a restaurant in los angeles and urged them to move to san diego. >> he li...
Relatives believe the information will prove the Saudi government was complicit in the attacks – while newly available files have already raised questions about Langley’s involvement. Family members of 9/11 victims have warned Joe Biden to stay away from the upcoming 20th anniversary memorial events, unless officials are willing to declassify documents that the relatives believe will prove the Saudi Arabian government was involved in the attacks. “There is simply no reason – unmerited claims of ‘national security’ or otherwise – to keep this information secret,” an open lette...