GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — The Justice Department asked a federal court for permission to publish FBI documents that may show links between the Saudi government and the al Qaeda hijackers behind 9/11, with the new filing coming two days before the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks.

Families of the 9/11 victims have sought a host of details tied to possible Saudi government involvement in the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 Americans. Last week, President Joe Biden issued an executive order directing the DOJ to declassify information stemming from an FBI inquiry dubbed Operation Encore, which ended in 2016.

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