Former Saudi officials to be questioned about alleged links to 9/11 attackers

• Depositions to form part of US families' long-running case
• Fifteen of 19 hijackers in 2001 were Saudi nationals

Former Saudi officials will be questioned about their alleged links to the 9/11 attacks in court depositions this month by lawyers acting for families of the victims, who view it as a breakthrough in efforts to prove a link between Riyadh and the hijackers.

The families are seeking to prove that Saudi nationals helped support two of the 9/11 hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, in southern California in the months leading up to the attacks - and that support was coordinated by a diplomat in the Saudi embassy in Washington.