'I am ready to sit with American investigators, whether from the FBI or CIA, in the presence of Saudi investigators and on Saudi soil,' Al-Bayoumi told Al-Arabiya, calling the allegations 'pure fabrication'. He has already been questioned in the US. Responding to the accusations that he helped the two hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdar and Nawaf al-Hamzi, he said that his association with them was fleeting. 'I was on my way to Los Angeles with a friend to renew my passport [and] on our way back we stopped ata restaurant and heard two men talking,' he explained. 'I thought they were from a Gulf country and they told me that they were from Saudi Arabia -They lived near my house for two or three weeks, then later moved to another place.' The congressional report claims that Al-Bayoumi apppeared to have access 'to seemingly unlimited funding from Saudi Arabia'.
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