FBI got Saudis out of US after 9/11
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Sunday 27 March 2005 4:05 PM GMT


In the wake of the attacks, most aircraft in the US were grounded


The FBI played an active role in arranging chartered flights for dozens of well-connected Saudi nationals - including relatives of Usama bin Ladin - after 9/11, The New York Times has reported.



The newspaper on Sunday, citing official documents, reported that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation gave personal airport escorts to two prominent Saudi families who fled the United States, while several other Saudis were allowed to leave the country without first being interviewed.



The Saudi families, in Los Angeles and Orlando, had requested the FBI escorts out of concern for their personal safety in the wake of the attacks.



The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Justice Department by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, which provided copies to the Times.



Angry reaction



FBI officials contacted by the daily reacted angrily to the allegation of preferential treatment for the Saudis.



"We'd do that for anybody if they felt they were threatened - we wouldn't characterise that as special treatment"

Unnamed FBI official

One official, speaking on condition of anonymity, when queried by the Times about the airport escorts said "we'd do that for anybody if they felt they were threatened - we wouldn't characterise that as special treatment".



The Saudis' chartered flights - arranged in the days after the 11 September 2001 attacks when most aircraft were still grounded – have long been a topic of allegations related to close family ties and associates of US President George Bush and the Saudi royal family.



The charges received their most prominent airing last year by the filmmaker Michael Moore, in his Fahrenheit 9/11 documentary.



White House officials have strongly denied any special treatment for the Saudis.


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I heard this on aar today too!!!
Unreal!

Good news!

This story was tops on our local evening news (on Fox, no less) here in Austin.

Very good to see this getting MSM coverage! Previously, many right-wingers seemed to think Michael Moore just pulled this stuff out of thin air to support his liberal viewpoint in Fahrenheit 9/11. As the hard truths slowly leak out, how many people can still say they support Bush's actions after this terrible attack? Oh, and by the way...

Anyone seen Osama lately...?

New proof that Osama was in Tora Bora when they let him get away!! Bush has come out and said that he was not there at that time
Heard this also on aar today(was listening when I was cooking!)
A detainee in Afganistan is being detained for being against US efforts over there.
Why? What did he do?
He contributed to helping Osama escape from Tora Bora and he's talking.

What was that that Kerry used to say about outsourcing the job of capturing Osama??

Let us review.

Bush didn't do anything we set out to do after the tragedy of 9/11.

...He didn't capture Osama.
...He didn't find or destroy weapons of mass destruction.
...He didn't 'free' the Iraqi people (it's an occupied country now, run by America instead of Hussein. And, 100,000+ Iraqi deaths later, America is proving to be every bit as deadly as Hussein)
...He certainly didn't make the world safer from terrorism--many experts claim the opposite is now true.

And no real end in sight. What an enormous waste.

I wonder if Bush really wanted to get Osama--he claimed he wanted him "dead or alive", but shifted his attention from Osama to Saddam-what gives? The most telling comment came from Bush before the election--"I am not worried about Osama Bin Laden". Why isn't Bush worried about a terrorist who attacked the US, killed over 3,000 and recently called on Muslems to attack Americans. It doesn't make sense. There are so many inconsistencies secrets and lies surrounding this administration--it is impossible to trust anything we have been told.

But!


Guess who controls the world's second largest oil reserves?