Two years prior to the hijackers’ attack, the suspect took the previously unreleased footage while he was ambling around US government buildings in Washington, DC.
The final scene of the one-hour movie shows the Capitol building with two limousines in focus. “Their cars,” the narrator says. It was stated in the strategy by you.
Ten days after 9/11, Scotland Yard agents detained Omar al-Bayoumi, a mature Saudi student, at his Birmingham house and found the tape there.
Detectives investigating counterterrorism interrogated him for seven days before releasing him without charge.
The FBI later recognized him as an intelligence agent from Saudi Arabia. He has informed US investigators that his film is merely a tourist movie and denies any involvement in 9/11.
A year later, he acknowledged that he had unintentionally become friends with two of the future terrorists who crashed a hijacked aircraft into the Pentagon, killing 189 people.
The American authorities were not informed at the time of the raid in 2001 whether or not they received al-Bayoumi’s recording and the things confiscated.
