{
  "id": 14865229,
  "title": "Omar al-Bayoumi, the Saudi 'guardian angel' of two 9/11 terrorists",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/omar-al-bayoumi-the-saudi-guardian-angel-of-two-9-11-terrorists",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-16T03:38:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/10/16/omar-al-bayoumi-the-saudi-guardian-angel-of-two-9-11-terrorists_6758664_4.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "'On the Saudi Trail of 9/11' (1/4). Omar al-Bayoumi denied being an extremist and a spy. Yet the jovial Saudi civil servant, who lived in the US before the attacks, was ever-present in the American journey of two of the terrorists. He even sometimes played paintball with a future leader of Al-Qaeda.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}