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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Earl who wrote (778)	6/10/2003 7:46:46 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

cooperativeresearch.org September 11, 2001 (Z): The Carlyle Group is a company closely associated with officials of the Bush and Reagan administrations, and has considerable ties to Saudi oil money, including ties to the bin Laden family (see September 27, 2001)http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/AAsaudi.... Those ties are well illustrated by the fact that on this day the Carlyle Group is hosting a conference at a Washington hotel. Among the guests of honor is investor Shafig bin Laden, brother to Osama. [Observer, 6/16/02] observer.co.uk 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] nytimes.com The Tampa Tribune reports that on September 13, 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), file:///C\|/My%20Documents/allan/911/ZIP%20FILES%20from%20derek%20112902/updates/0801G August 31, 2001, cooperativeresearch.org. August 15, 2002), cooperativeresearch.org. 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] file:///C\|/My%20Documents/allan/911/ZIP%20FILES%20from%20derek%20112902/updates/2001/tampatribune100501.html (Raytheon's name keeps coming up in relation to 9/11 (for instance, see September 25, 2001)). cooperativeresearch.org. Prince Bandar, Saudi ambassador to the US, helps move the bin Laden family out of the US. [London Times, 11/25/02] timesonline.co.uk 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, web.archive.org. New Yorker, 11/5/01] newyorker.com An earlier FBI attempt to investigate Abdullah was obstructed by higher-ups (see 1996). cooperativeresearch.org. The existence of these flights during the air travel ban is now usually referred to as an urban legend. [Snopes, 3/19/02 snopes.com