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"The FBI checked a variety of databases for information on the Bin Ladin flight passengers and searched the aircraft. It is unclear whether the TIPOFF terrorist watchlist was checked. At our request, the Terrorist Screening Center has rechecked the names of individuals on the flight manifests of these six Saudi flights against the current TIPOFF watchlist. There are no matches. The FBI has concluded that nobody was allowed to depart on these six flights who the FBI wanted to interview in connection with the 9/11 attacks, or who the FBI later concluded had any involvement in those attacks. To date, we have uncovered no evidence to contradict this conclusion."
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing10/staff_statement_10.pdf

685 posted on 04/14/2004 12:45:42 PM PDT by ironman

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686 posted on 04/14/2004 12:47:11 PM PDT by jmstein7 (Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)

There were six flights? I thought that they were all flown to a central place -- Tennessee comes to mind -- and then flown out of the company.

I will have to reread the article in Vanity Fair.

BTW, do you remember Richard Clarke saying HE personally approved that/those flight(s)?

687 posted on 04/14/2004 12:48:15 PM PDT by Howlin

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