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To: JakeStraw who wrote (9119)	4/9/2004 8:19:04 AM
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Terrorist's Name On Manifest Raises Questions About Saudi Flights After 9/11 List and testimony indicates FBI may have allowed alleged hijacker's kin to leave U.S. with son of Saudi defense minister without questioning them. by Tom Flocco WASHINGTON - April 4, 2004 -- Posted 07:45 ET -- TomFlocco.com -- A copy of a previously unpublished manifest, obtained late Thursday night and dated September 15, 2001, provides evidence of a private Boeing-727 Saudi flight from Lexington, Kentucky to London. But the names on the manifest raise serious questions about FBI policies and procedures related to witness identification, criminal investigations and obstruction of justice. Ahmad A. M. Alhazmi, 20, (Saudi passport no. B805019) is listed on the manifest with Prince Sultan bin Fahad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, 19, (Saudi passport no. 406 A), son of Saudi defense minister Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. The name Alhazmi and its ties to laundered Riggs Bank cashiers checks may become a subject of interest when National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies later this week--especially since young Ahmad Alhazmi has the same last name as Nawaf Alhazmi, one of the terrorists identified as an alleged hijacker of American Airlines flight 77. The White House had originally asserted that flights evacuating Saudis from the United States after 9/11 never existed, but author Craig Unger--who has written a book about clandestine Bush-Saudi relationships--obtained flight manifest lists which were drawn up by the Saudi embassy. Besides the Alhazmi list, three other manifests confirm a total of four separate Saudi flights leaving the United States on September 15, 16, 22 and 24, 2001, after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Unger, author of "House of Bush / House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties," has now posted all four manifests online. (http://www.houseofbush.com/files.php) Alhazmi's associates received continued payments of $3,500. per month from Princess Haifa Al-Faisal, wife of Saudi Crown Prince Bandar bin Sultan who is Ambassador to the United States, according to sources familiar with the financial evidence. (Newsweek, 11-22-2002) Both Saudis visited President Bush's Texas ranch in late August, 2002--before this news broke--but Americans will never hear Mr. Bush publicly discuss the contents of their conversations, or Bandar and Haifa's signed checks made out to terrorist associates through his uncle's Riggs Bank. 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean negotiated away the important opportunity for personal, public presidential testimony under oath in exchange for Condoleezza Rice's public testimony. Interestingly, Kean stumbled slightly this morning when Meet the Press host Tim Russert asked him why Bush and Vice-President Cheney were testifying together, and why former President Clinton and Vice-President Gore were not being offered the same opportunity. Bush and Cheney will not be under oath, allowing joint corroboration of each other's testimony on-the-spot regarding their actions during the key two hour time-line of the actual attacks--thus avoiding possible future perjury charges and/or impeachment proceedings. Favorable testimony deals notwithstanding, internet controversy continues to rage because the Commission conducts 90 % of its investigation in secret, failing to hear public testimony from boarding gate personnel, cleanup and catering crews with less security scrutiny, air traffic controllers, military pilots in the air on 9/11 and their ordinance crews, Securities & Exchange commissioners who ordered the still-secret "control list" of pre-attack insider trades, and Lockheed-Martin officials who hold the air-traffic system contract--for an explanation as to whether the integrity and control of the doomed jets could have been compromised in any manner. Instead, Americans have been forced to accept the politically expedient desire to conclude well before November's election--stampeding the most important investigation since Watergate--to avoid electoral ramifications at the expense of truth, accountability and justice. **WORTH READING THE REST** tomflocco.com