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To: PartyTime who wrote (6145)	3/12/2004 8:49:05 PM
From: twmoore	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Party Time,because of Madrid,I wonder if England and Australia should be concerned now because of their support for the Iraqi war?

To: PartyTime who wrote (6145)	3/12/2004 9:02:14 PM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 173976

....At the time, the massive 9/11 investigation was just beginning. The government had begun detaining hundreds of people who were held for days, weeks, or months while U.S. agents performed extensive background checks and interviews. In addition, the government announced its intention to question thousands of men from Muslim countries who might simply have known something of interest to the investigation. "The Department of Justice is waging a deliberate campaign of arrest and detention to protect American lives," Attorney General John Ashcroft said on November 27. But the bin Ladens did not have to worry about that. While FBI agents looked into bin Laden family members in the Boston area immediately after September 11, it appears that the agents' first chance to interview them — or other family members who lived elsewhere in the country — came on the day they left the U.S. Each family member was given the all-clear on the basis of a single, day-of-departure interview — conducted, in Bill Carter's words, "at the airport, as they were about to leave." nationalreview.com It's about time the press revisits this issue. There was very little mention of it when it occured. Why were the Bin Ladens allowed to leave the country while the rest of us were under lockdown? Del