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Posted on 06/25/2004 12:21:10 AM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield
Bin Laden Family Evacuated Sept. 30, 2001
Two dozen members of Osama bin Laden's family were urgently evacuated from the United States in the first days following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, according to the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
One of bin Laden's brothers frantically called the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington looking for protection, Prince Bandar bin Sultan told The New York Times. The brother was sent to a room in the Watergate Hotel and was told not to open the door.
Most of bin Laden's relatives were attending high school and college. The young members of the bin Laden family were driven or flown under FBI supervision to a secret place in Texas and then to Washington, The Times reported Sunday.
Many were terrified, fearing they would be lynched after hearing reports of violence against Muslims and Arab-Americans.
They left the country on a private charter plane when airports reopened three days after the attacks.
King Fahd, the ailing Saudi ruler, sent an urgent message to his embassy in Washington pointing out that there were "bin Laden children all over America" and ordered, "Take measures to protect the innocents," the ambassador said.
It's a tragedy," Prince Bandar told the Times. "The elders" of the students "came to see me, and one of them was a bright boy from Harvard who like the others had absolutely nothing to do with this and yet we had to tell him to go home and wait until the emotions calmed down. And he told me that he never really appreciated why the Japanese wanted a memorial or an apology for their treatment in World War II.
The student added, according to the prince, "I understand now that when you are innocent, in the face of emotion, nothing, not even common sense, can help argue your case."
Osama bin Laden is one of more than 50 children of a Yemeni-born migrant who made a vast fortune building roads and palaces in Saudi Arabia and his extended family spans the globe. Many have been educated in the United States and the family has donated millions of dollars to several American universities.
Bin Laden is estranged from his family and from Saudi Arabia, which revoked his citizenship in the early 1990s after he was caught smuggling weapons from Yemen.
"These people should not have been allowed to leave without being examined for complicity in funding Osama bin Laden."
And you don't think they -were-, a billion times prior to 9/11?
Besides, the whole thing is moot, unless you're interested in trying to get Richard Clarke fired from his position... oh yeah, he already was.
Qwinn
I did many months after 9/11, but they didn't seem interested. I don't blame them, it was old by then.
On the other hand, it would have been pretty easy to get the cabbie logs and get a fix on who this guy was.
I didn't mention that he did some other things that were equally wierd during that trip.
I did many months after 9/11, but they didn't seem interested. I don't blame them, it was old by then.
On the other hand, it would have been pretty easy to get the cabbie logs and get a fix on who this guy was.
I didn't mention that he did some other things that were equally wierd during that trip.
No. I don't think so. For the same reason a dozen or more Saudis were able to do dubious things at flight schools, not get deported for overstaying visas, etc. We assumed (can't spell THAT without "ass") that Saudis are not terrorists.
Something else Moore apparantly fails to mention: Under what President were Bin ladens relatives allowed to immigrate to this country?
Weren't there some stock manipulations after 9/11 that indicated foreknowlege of the attacks?
Oh PLEASE. You've GOT to be kidding me! You think that the government was just as interested in your standard vanilla Saudi immigrant as they were in bin Laden's FAMILY?
Please! The files on every member of bin Laden's family probably each fill a -room- at the FBI. Whatever you're smoking, I want some!
Qwinn
Great find, Qwinn.
Note that the information has been OUT there -- from CBS, no less -- all this time, yet Michael Moore continues to distort the facts.
Now where was that article from last week about Moore and his "fact checkers," aka Chris Lehane????
For reference
Good work, Rodney!
Yeah, funny how THAT story died.
Securities trades are the some of the most easily searchable records on Earth. If our government wanted it known who profited from apperent foreknowledge, we would know it, and we would know exactly how improbable it is that such trade are a coincidence.
Michael Isikoff was on MSNBC with Chris Lehane the other night; I swear, if Isikoff could have reached through the screen and slapped Lehane, he would have.
They were moved by the FBI on FBI planes.
I often wondered if they were part of the family the left has been yapping about
Playback all your Clinton speeches in chronological order and you will clearly see his vocal test of his electorate's memory and IQ.
Graph it and see that he came to understand his constituents could be trod over as long as they were petted, setting the bar for future leftwing scum like Moore, Kerry and all the slime.
Trust me.
-Thank You-
Moore needs to be no more
Oh, I can't take the credit for finding this. The thread was started by Rodney Dangerfield. I feel bad for him. Poor guy seems to be having some trouble getting respect ;)
Qwinn
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