Late Saturday, the FBI released the first batch of documents related to its investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks, days after US President Joe Biden issued an order to declassify them.

The first batch of heavily redacted 16-page documents relate to the 2016 “Operation Encore” to investigate “significant logistical support provided to two of the 9/11 hijackers.”

And the documents stated that Saudis in the United States “have multiple personal and telephone contacts with individuals who have provided or are suspected of providing support to Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khaled Al-Mahar.”

On September 3, Biden issued an executive order directing the Department of Justice and other relevant agencies to review and declassify sensitive documents from the FBI’s investigation into the 9/11 attacks that may incriminate senior Saudi officials.

The move comes after the president faced pressure from about 1,800 relatives of the victims, not to attend events marking the 20th anniversary of the attacks, if the documents were not released.

However, the documents did not provide any details sufficient to convict the Saudi government, which has repeatedly denied having any role in the attacks.

And on Wednesday, the Saudi embassy in Washington said, in a statement, that it “welcomes Biden’s order to release confidential documents related to the horrific events,” stressing that “any allegations of Saudi complicity in the September 11 attacks are absolutely false.”

On September 11, 2001, small groups of hijackers hijacked four airliners that took off from New York, Boston, and Washington to San Francisco and Los Angeles, and used them to strike prominent buildings in New York and Washington, killing nearly 3,000 people, including citizens of 77 countries.

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