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In reply to the discussion: Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators Say [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)APRIL 9, 2004--Days after September 11, 2001, with commercial flights grounded throughout the United States, the Bush administration allowed select commercial jets to fly out of the country. Four manifests from these flights have been released by Craig Unger, author of the nonfiction bestseller House of Bush, House of Saud. The passenger lists are posted online.
A September 13 flight from Lexington KY to London carried 15 passengers including eight Saudis; a Las Vegas-to-Switzerland flight the next day carried seven Saudis; a "VIP flight" from New York to Paris on September 22 carried 12 passengers including four Saudis; and another Las Vegas-to-Paris VIP flight on September 24 carried 24 passengers including 11 Saudis. Some individuals who jetted away would have been "persons of interest" in any traditional investigation, and others had round-the-clock knowledge of them.
Former Clinton and Bush counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke was asked about the flights at the April 8 hearing of the 9-11 Commission. Clarke responded that "someone" in the Saudi embassy had requested that some persons be allowed to fly out and that he refused, kicking the request over to the FBI, which permitted them.
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/040904SaudiCIA.shtml
On Sept. 11, 2001, one of Bin Laden's 51 siblings, Khalil bin Laden, was living with his family at their 18-acre lakefront estate in west Orange County. The bin Laden family had broken ties with Osama bin Laden in the 1980s. On Sept. 19, 2001, a motorcade of sheriff's deputies escorted the bin Laden family to Orlando International Airport, where they boarded a charter flight to return to Saudi Arabia.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-05-02/news/os-bin-laden-orlando-ties-20110502_1_orlando-fax-machine-brother-nawawi-embassy-bombings