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To: Destro
Ok, before I fulfill your request, let me make a comment about what the phrase "burden of proof" means. If you are going to make a charge, the person making the charge should have to "prove it".

I haven't heard any Bush official (current or former) make these assertions. As far as I am concerned this is some demoCREEP attempt to manufacture news.

CLICK HERE FOR PROOF

5 posted on 09/03/2003 10:50:46 AM PDT by mattdono
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To: mattdono
I thought so.

Perhaps you should call the editor of the newspaper and humiliate the "journalisst".
8 posted on 09/03/2003 10:53:00 AM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: mattdono
From

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/timelineafter911.html

[There are hyperlinks in the original; though these people are Leftists, most of the timeline is well-sourced]

September 13-19, 2001: Members of bin Laden's family and important Saudis are "driven or flown under FBI supervision to a secret assembly point in Texas and then to Washington from where they left the country on a private charter plane when airports reopened three days after the attacks." The flights to Texas and Washington occur before the national air ban is lifted. [New York Times, 9/30/01] The Tampa Tribune reports that on September 13, a Lear jet takes off from Tampa, Florida, carrying a Saudi Arabian prince, the son of the Saudi defense minister Prince Sultan (see August 2001 (G), August 31, 2001, August 15, 2002), as well as the son of a Saudi army commander, and flies to Lexington, Kentucky, where the Saudis own racehorses. They then fly a private 747 out of the country. Multiple 747s with Arabic lettering on their sides are already there, suggesting another secret assembly point. The Tampa flight left from a private Raytheon hangar. [Tampa Tribune, 10/5/01] (Raytheon's name keeps coming up in relation to 9/11 (for instance, see September 25, 2001).) Prince Bandar, Saudi ambassador to the US, helps move the bin Laden family out of the US. [London Times, 11/25/02] Ron Motley, the lead lawyer in a 9/11 lawsuit against many Saudis, points to the flights during the air ban as evidence that Saudis are "protected by the Bush administration" because of "oil." [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 8/16/02] There have been conflicting reports as to whether the FBI interviewed these people before they left the country. Osama bin Laden's half brother, Abdullah bin Laden, stated that even a month after 9/11 his only contact with the FBI was a brief phone call. [Boston Globe, 9/21/01, New Yorker, 11/5/01] The existence of these flights during the air travel ban is now usually referred to as an urban legend. [Snopes, 3/19/02]
10 posted on 09/03/2003 11:14:14 AM PDT by Iconoclast2
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To: mattdono
Please ignore my previous post since you answered all my questions. Thank you for the information. Had I known that the 'facts' reported were from M Moore, I would never have asked for more proof. It all makes sense now. TY again.
19 posted on 09/03/2003 12:15:45 PM PDT by mrtysmm
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To: mattdono
From your link: Yes, a couple of flights arranged by the Saudi government did collect a number of Osama bin Laden's America-based relatives and whisk them to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, but this departure didn't take place during the FAA-imposed ban on air travel in the US. The two flights in question took wing on September 18 and 19, days after the ban on air travel was lifted.

Thanks! The flights during the FAA ban is the false part but not the other part it seems.

28 posted on 09/03/2003 3:45:37 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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