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Brainster
20th June 2007, 03:08 PM
According to this press release from Judicial Watch (http://judicialwatch.org/6322.shtml):

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released new documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) related to the “expeditious departure” of Saudi nationals, including members of the bin Laden family, from the United States following the 9/11 attacks. According to one of the formerly confidential documents, dated 9/21/2001, terrorist Osama bin Laden may have chartered one of the Saudi flights.

The document states: “ON 9/19/01, A 727 PLANE LEFT LAX, RYAN FLT #441 TO ORLANDO, FL W/ETA (estimated time of arrival) OF 4-5PM. THE PLANE WAS CHARTERED EITHER BY THE SAUDI ARABIAN ROYAL FAMILY OR OSAMA BIN LADEN…THE LA FBI SEARCHED THE PLANE [REDACTED] LUGGAGE, OF WHICH NOTHING UNUSUAL WAS FOUND.” The plane was allowed to depart the United States after making four stops to pick up passengers, ultimately landing in Paris where all passengers disembarked on 9/20/01, according to the document. (Bolding added for emphasis)

The document dump from the FBI is in a PDF file (http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2007/Saudi%20Docs%202.pdf). The quoted passage appears on page 3 of the PDF.

I don't know how the Deniers will work this into their theories; probably they will claim it's like the supposed Dubai hospital visit and the FBI's wanted poster for Osama; an indication that the FBI knows he wasn't involved in 9-11.

Unsecured Coins
20th June 2007, 03:17 PM
doesn't that also sorta kill the idea that the US flew his family out while the ground rule was still in effect?

Grimes
20th June 2007, 03:22 PM
I don't know how the Deniers will work this into their theories;

Clearly an honest and noble CIA agent warned the deep undercover OBL that the agency would be placing the blame on him for the attacks, so like any upstanding citizen who wanted to protect his family from interrogation and persecution, he chartered a jet out of the country.

It's amazing how easy it is to think like a CTer. It's like comfort food for the mind.

Jedi_Master
20th June 2007, 04:16 PM
doesn't that also sorta kill the idea that the US flew his family out while the ground rule was still in effect?

That was my thinking as well...

IIRC...

They was supposed to have spirited out the Bin Laden family on the same day ( or maybe the day after, the story changes depending on who's telling it )...

Gravy
20th June 2007, 08:07 PM
That's a big "or." Where's the follow-up? Pretty embarrassing to the FBI if they didn't check who chartered the flight.

Brainster
20th June 2007, 10:21 PM
I should have indicated my own opinion, which is that an FBI agent was doing a little grandstanding with this memo.

BTW, if the mods want to combine the two threads on this I would not mind.

Gravy
20th June 2007, 10:26 PM
I wouldn't be surprised to see a statement from the FBI clarifying this soon.