Best of 2025: INVESTIGATION: The 9/11 suspect - part 3
The Story
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🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In the years since Omar al-Bayoumi was released by British police, new evidence has come to light which was not shared with the officers carrying out his interrogation. Today, he stands accused of being a Saudi agent who helped the terrorists who carried out 9/11, something he has always denied.
This is part three of a three-part special investigative series, first published in September.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Manveen from The Story, wishing you a very happy and restful Christmas period. |
| 0:06.0 | While we step away for a festive break, we didn't want to leave you without anything to listen to, |
| 0:10.8 | so we've selected some of our favourite and most memorable episodes from 2025 for you to catch up on. |
| 0:17.9 | Happy listening. |
| 0:28.7 | Music On. Happy listening. It's 2012. |
| 0:30.6 | And in a police lockup in Washington, D.C., an FBI evidence technician has been asked |
| 0:36.1 | to clear out an old store room. |
| 0:38.7 | The room is stuffed full of boxes of material from old cases. |
| 0:43.5 | Much of it hasn't seen the light of day in years. |
| 0:46.8 | As the technician gets started, they stumble upon a crate. |
| 0:51.9 | It's labeled Omar Alpoyumi. |
| 0:57.3 | They lift the lid. |
| 1:00.3 | Inside is an untidy pile of folders and documents. |
| 1:04.6 | Stuffed in among the pile, they catch a glimpse of a photograph. |
| 1:09.1 | It's labeled Exhibit PSS slash 3-4 and marked Category 1 of Critical Importance. |
| 1:18.6 | It's a photograph of an old yellow notepad. |
| 1:22.7 | In faded blue ink are a few equations, a few English words, and a hand-drawn sketch. |
| 1:30.6 | The technician gasps, grabs the crate, and immediately heads out of the storeroom. |
| 1:36.5 | They know exactly who to give this to. |
| 1:39.1 | A secret internal investigation within the FBI, known as Operation Encore. |
| 1:48.0 | More than 10 years on, this group is searching for answers to what really happened on September 11, 2001. |
| 1:58.0 | In the days after the world's worst terrorist attack, we were told explicitly who did it. |
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