Miami Herald joins suit asking FBI for 9/11 documents

(Herald Tribune) The Miami Herald Media Co. has joined the Herald-Tribune Media Group in urging a federal judge to make the FBI disclose details of its long-running Sarasota 9/11 investigation.

The two media companies want to be heard in an existing federal lawsuit against the agency by an independent news gathering organization in Fort Lauderdale, Broward Bulldog.

The FBI documents could shed light on the alleged interactions of a high-echelon Saudi family — living in Sarasota's Prestancia neighborhood just before the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon — and three hijacker pilots who trained in Venice about the same time.

The newspapers are seeking to persuade a federal judge that an FBI assertion of privacy interests is outweighed by the public's need to know what happened.

“The (Miami) Herald has covered, and will continue to cover, connections between 9/11 and Florida,” the media company's court filing says. “Several of the 9/11 hijackers had links to South Florida, the Herald's core coverage area.”

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