Bush met with Bin Laden family??
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Bush met with Bin Laden family??
| Sun, 06-27-2004 - 8:26pm |
Someone on another board just posted that George HW. Bush met with Bin Laden family the day before 911 and the morning of 911?!?!?!! Why in the world would he have a meeting with them? What are his ties to them? I wonder if they warned him that Osama was planning something? I had heard in the past that Osama was estranged from his family. I wonder if he called and warned them that he was going to do something big or something??? I have always respected (although disagreed with) Bush Sr. and this sorta surprised me.................

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"He allowed many members of Saudi Arabian royalty to exit America after 9/11, while most other flights were grounded."
That's a fallacy. They left on September 13th, the day our airspace was reopened.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flight.htm
Additionally, the 9/11 Commission investigating the events of 9/11 and related issues found that there was "no credible evidence that any chartered flights of Saudi Arabian nationals departed the United States before the reopening of national airspace".
~mark~
As for why Bush would meet with them, they're a relatively wealthy Saudi family, with oil interests much the same as the Saudi royal family. And it needs to be mentioned that we're talking about a very extended family here, not the brothers, etc. of OBL himself. It's also worth mentioning that they had formally disowned OBL before any of this occured.
~mark~
Just how thoroughly they were questioned is a matter of debate. 24 members of the Bin Laden family were questioned in less then 48 hours and put on planes out of the country. And keep in mind the Bin Ladens were scattered around the country and had to be collected in one place first.
"And it needs to be mentioned that we're talking about a very extended family here, not the brothers, etc. of OBL himself. It's also worth mentioning that they had formally disowned OBL before any of this occured."
And it needs to be mentioned that some of this "very extended" family was known to have been at the marriage of Bin Laden's son just a month prior to 9/11. To what degree the Bin Laden family had disowned and cut off contact with Osama is also a matter of debate.
Edited 6/27/2004 9:42 pm ET ET by dublingrl
~mark~
I'll split a hair with ya ;)It may not have been conspiratorial but it was definitely questionable.
Edited 6/28/2004 11:04 am ET ET by nicecanadianlady
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