[Pete]

My understanding is that the Bin Laden family has essentially disowned Usama and have condemned what he has done.

[Froufrou]

That's what I understood, too. That he was exiled to Saudi Arabia where his son-in-law took him in. As for George HW Bush being a sr. advisor of The Carlyle, I'm willing to be that was before bin Ladens bought in.

The White House authorized planes to pick up 140 Saudi nationals, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, living in various cities in the U.S. to bring them back to Saudi Arabia, where they would be safe. They were never interrogated.

Where's the proof?