The US Congress has removed the "top secret" label from the last 28 pages of the September 11, 2001 parliamentary investigation.
According to the BBC, contrary to rumors, they do not contain information that would allow the Saudi Arabian authorities to be accused of involvement in the incident.
The document is available to the general public. It named the names of people with whom the extremists communicated, who hijacked passenger planes and sent them to the towers of the World Trade Center.
These people helped criminals rent apartments, open bank accounts in the United States, and get piloting lessons. Fifteen of the 19 extremists who committed the 9/11 attacks were Saudi Arabians and spoke poor English.
The pages were classified after the report was released in 2002. At the same time, rumors arose that the documents were hidden due to the fact that they contain information about the involvement of the Saudi authorities in organizing the attack.
Since then, both the relatives of the victims of the terrorist attack and the representatives of Saudi Arabia have demanded to publish the hidden part of the report. The first - because they suspected that it contained important information about the organizers, the second - because they wanted to stop these rumors.
“Since 2002, the 9/11 attack commission and several agencies, including the CIA and the FBI, have examined the contents of these 28 pages, and can confirm that neither the Saudi government, nor officials, nor a single person acting on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government provided any support for the hijackers and did not express approval of this attack, - said, commenting on the publication of the document, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States, Abdullah al-Saud.
According to US investigators, on the morning of September 11, 2001, four groups of extremists with links to al-Qaeda hijacked four scheduled passenger airliners. Each group had at least one member who had completed initial flight training.
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The invaders sent two of these airliners into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, causing both skyscrapers to collapse. The third plane was sent to the Pentagon building, located near Washington. The passengers and the crew of the fourth airliner attempted to take control of the plane, after which the plane crashed into a field near the Shanksville settlement in Pennsylvania.
Osama bin Laden was blamed for organizing the attack, who was killed by an American special forces unit at his home in Pakistan in 2011.