I read in another place (somewhere on FR) that he also had been offered transport to the airport.
I can't believe what I'm reading here. It sounds absolutely bogus, in every direction. I suppose he also could have been just what he said and his father said he was, but alarm bells are ringing continuously.
It was in the Norman Transcript yesterday that he was offered a flight out of Baghdad but didn't want to drive down the road that goes to the airport because it was too dangerous. Made no sense to me!