New footage has emerged of unwitting accused 9/11 accomplice Omar al-Bayoumi paintballing with one of al-Qaeda’s future leaders.

Bayoumi is currently the focus of a £733,000,000,000 lawsuit filed by the families of 9/11 victims.

For 25 years, Bayoumi has denied being an extremist and a spy for Saudi Arabia, but a recently released video shows him hugging Anwar al-Awlaki, who would go on to lead al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

In another clip obtained by the BBC, he was seen paintballing in San Diego – an activity that the FBI found some participants were taking part in to train for jihad.

Bayoumi first came to the United States in 1994 and claimed to be there to study but was later accused of aiding two of the hijackers who flew planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

Bayoumi helped two of the 9/11 hijackers find apartments and settle in San Diego after they arrived in America in 2000.

The lawsuit against Bayoumi alleges that Saudi Arabia’s government assisted the hijackers and that Bayoumi was part of the planning for America’s deadliest terror attack.

Bayoumi worked as an accountant for a Saudi aviation company before the September 11 attacks, before moving to Birmingham.

In 2017, it was revealed that the FBI had found Bayoumi was an ‘informal agent’ of the Saudi intelligence services.

When officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Anti-Terror Branch arrested Bayoumi at his home in September 2001, they found evidence including names of dozens of Saudi government officials in the US and Saudi Arabia.

They also found flight simulator software, tickets, and a notebook with a sketch of a plane and mathematical calculations about plane height.

Eventually, Bayoumi was cleared in 2004 after a lengthy investigation. The final 9/11 Commission report stated: ‘We have seen no credible evidence that he believed in violent extremism, or knowingly aided extremist groups.’

But the photo sketch of a plane re-emerged in recent years, along with footage of him playing paintball with known terrorists.

Bayoumi has continuously denied his involvement in the attacks.

Saudi Arabia has also denied that its officials were involved in 9/11.

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