The families of some of the victims killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001, who worked for the Howard Lutnick Bond Company, now the Secretary of Commerce, urges him to help extradite a national of Saudi Arabia involved in the attacks while preparing to commit to the kingdom.
In a letter to Mr. Lutnick, obtained by the New York Times, the families that represent the hundreds of employees of the company, Cantor Fitzgerald, who died in the attack cited recently not sealed evidence that shows that Omar Al-Bayoumi, had a vajilla agent of links.
Mr. Lutnick is a relative of a victim of the terrorist attack; His brother, who also worked for Cantor Fitzgerald, died. And Cantor, whose offices covered 101 to the 105 floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, lost more employees than any other company affected by the attacks.
The letter occurs when Lutnick plans to accompany President Trump to Saudi Arabia as part of an upcoming trip to the Middle East. The families urged Mr. Lutnick to present the case that Mr. Al-Bayoumi was taken before justice in any discussion about the strengthening of the United States Economic Association with the Kingdom. The relatives wrote that their appointment “gives us renewed hope” to determine the complete truth about the attacks and who was responsible.
“You are in a unique position to emphasize that any association of this type must begin with responsibility and justice, ensuring that Omar Al-Bayoumi is delivered to the United States to face justice in an American court,” he said that the fattest had more than 150.
“This problem transcends politics; it is a matter of beginning,” the letter continued. “It’s about honoring the lives we lost, and if the country that sent them to their tragic deaths will be responsible.”
Office of the Department of Commerce declined to comment. A person with knowledge or thought of Mr. Lutnick said he had seen the letter and deeply appreciated the thoughts of family members.
Mr. Lutnick, who served as the firm’s executive director at the time of the attack, lost 658 employees, including his best friend. In a publication on social networks last year, he reported how he was leaving his son for his first day of kindergarten when his phone continued sounding and disconnecting when his brother, Gary, tried to say goodbye.
Cantor Fitzgerald continued to support the families affected by the attacks, giving them $ 180 million. He also paid his medical attention for 10 years and established a help fund.
“I promised to take care of all families,” he wrote. “They became part of my family.”
There was a dissent within the company on how an allocation of American Airlines settlement on the plane that crashed into the northern tower of the world center, which caused collapse, Fox Business reported. Mr. Lutnick told company executives in 2014 that money should be largely disbursed among the firm’s partners, instead of the members of the family of the murdered. It is not clear if this was how the money was disbursed. Mr. Lutnick declined to comment to Fox Business for his osticle at that time.
For years, information on the potential participation of Mr. Al-Bayoumi in the September 11 attacks darkened.
Last summer, a treasure of evidence seized by the British authorities of the house of Mr. Al-Bayoumi linked it to the kidnappers of Qaeda of September 11 for the first time.
More than a week after the attacks, Britanic Police officers raided Mr. Al-Bayoumi, who had two of the kidnappers of September 11 in Los Angeles shortly after they arrived in early 2000. Among the articles that the officers dizzy they was a pad in which Mr. Al-Bayoumi had squatted a plane in Blue Ink, for which he had written an equation. Mathematical Mathematics.
The British authorities directed the material to the FBI for their investigation of the attacks. But it is still of an uncle what happened to the drawing after that. It was not shared with the commission of September 11, a bipartisan group of legislators and experts responsible for writing the final account of the attacks. In its 2004 report, the commission called Mr. Al-Bayoumi “an unlikely candidate for clandestine participation with Islamic extremists.”
None of the new evidence of Mr. Al-Bayoumi’s house concluded conclusively that the Saudi government allowed attacks, but adds to a growing circumstantial case.
The families gave a report transmitted in “60 minutes” last month, revealing that Mr. Al-Bayoumi filmed the Capitol before the attacks.
In the letter, the families indicated that this information had been in the week of the FBI after the attack, but it was with the hero of the American public and the commission of September 11 for years.
“That betrayal is an intern,” said the letter. “But now we have the opportunity for a new beginning.”
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