Posted on 09/10/2008 7:07:26 AM PDT by LSUfan
Just days after the 9/11 attacks, the FBI allowed a nephew of Osama bin Laden under prior investigation for terrorism to leave the U.S. on a Saudi Arabian-chartered jet without questioning, a new book on the bin Ladens reveals.
Another bin Laden nephew living in the U.S. was protected from terrorism prosecution after the Saudi embassy stepped in and gave him diplomatic immunity.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Obama? Seriously? Osama? Oh well. What’s one O for another? My son’s FNL sold patriot missiles to the saudis. I mentioned that once to a Desert Storm Patriot. His response was “he sold those missiles to the saudis who used them to kill my fellow soldiers?!” I don’t talk about my son or his fnl to soldiers anymore.
Richard Clark stated in his book that he himself gave permission for these flights.
"FBI officials say Bandar, who in 2002 called the bin Laden family "truly a Saudi success story," demanded the chartered Saudi planes take off without the FBI even knowing the names of the all the bin Laden and Saudi passengers traveling aboard the planes. While FBI agents managed to identify the passengers, they did not have time to conduct full-blown investigations before their departures.
"Months before the 9/11 attacks, Bandar's wife made monthly tranfers totalling more than $130,000 to the wives of two Saudi agents who acted as advance men for the Saudi hijackers in San Diego. The agents coordinated their efforts with the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, where the hijackers first entered the U.S."
Obama has a nephew?
Oh, wait...
Someday we must get answers to this:
Coll confirms that the flights – which departed just days after then-Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar met with President Bush on the Truman Balcony – were cleared by the White House, which critics say subsequently throttled investigations involving Saudis.
Among other things, it:
Allowed the Saudi religious minister to leave the country (also on Sept. 19, 2001) and escape further questioning after feigning a seizure as FBI agents asked why he was staying at the same Dulles airport-area hotel as the Saudi hijackers the night before they attacked the Pentagon.
Censored 28 full pages, back-to-back, contained in the unclassified report of the congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks that allegedly detail “incontrovertible evidence” of complicity in the attacks by Saudi government officials.
Revoked a warrant for the arrest of U.S. citizen Anwar Aulaqi – a Falls Church, Va., radical imam who prepared at least two of the Saudi hijackers for martrydom – and let him flee the U.S. on a Saudi airline after 9/11, as first reported by Sperry in “Infiltration.”
Censored snippets of conversation embarrassing to the Saudi government – including references to Saudi clerics and Saudi police praising the 9/11 attacks – in a transcript of a bin Laden video about the 9/11 operation that the Pentagon released to the media in December 2001.
Helped dismiss the 9/11 class-action lawsuit against Saudi officials.
Removed a press release from Treasury’s website blacklisting a Saudi charity tied to the royal family’s banker, Khalid Bin Mahfouz.
Left off the U.S. sanctions list two Saudi-controlled charities used by bin Laden to finance terrorism – the Muslim World League and the International Islamic Relief Organization – to avoid embarrassing the Saudis.
Orchestrated with the Saudi embassy the visit to Ground Zero and $10 million charitable offering by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (which then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani ultimately rebuffed after learning the prince blamed the attacks on U.S. foreign policy).
Repatriated the 138 Saudi terrorist detainees held at Gitmo, tranferring them on Saudi jumbo jets in what some say amounts to another evacuation program.
>>Someday we must get answers to this:
Don’t hold your breath. There’s still WW2 stuff classified.
Bush/Saudi/BinLadin ties are old, deep and lucrative.
Inshallah.
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