I’d heard that W&Cheney gave the orders to round all the relatives/family/etc up and fly them out ASAP, to avoid retaliation. Lots of people were PO’d and wanted revenge, and some was taken out on wrong ethnicities (Sihks etc), which was sad.
I agree that was the reason the were sent on their way. I believe if it were me, I would have detained them if they had any kind of relationship with Bin Laden.
If they checked out as OK then I would have let them go but not before.
It’s all true.