FOUR flights took Saudis from US - names are now available

[donsu]

I thought it was only one plane - did you all know it was 4?

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/04/con04155.html

Why was the Fired Head of Saudi Intel in the United States, While 15 Saudis Were Carrying Out Their 9-11 Mission?

Within two weeks after September 11, 2001, with commercial flights grounded in the United States, the Bush administration allowed select commercial jets to fly out of the country. Four manifests from these flights have now been released by Craig Unger, author of the nonfiction bestseller "House of Bush, House of Saud." The passenger lists are posted online at http://www.houseofbush.com/files.php.

When former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke was asked about the flights at the commission’s last hearing, he responded that "someone" in the Saudi embassy requested them and that he refused, kicking the request over to the FBI. The FBI, dominated by the White House, permitted them.

Among passengers jetting away were some individuals who would have been "persons of interest" in any traditional investigation, and others with round-the-clock access to them. A September 13 flight from Lexington KY to London carried fifteen passengers including eight Saudis; a Las Vegas-to-Switzerland flight the next day carried seven Saudis; a New York-to-Paris flight on September 22 carried twelve passengers including four Saudis; and a Las Vegas-to-Paris flight on September 24 carried 24 passengers including 11 Saudis.

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Two of these dubious flights departed from Las Vegas, where at least five of the September 11 suspects visited several times between May and August 2001. At least one suspect from each of the four planes hijacked stayed in Las Vegas; all together, the hijackers made at least six trips there. Yet, a few days after 9-11, 31 passengers were allowed to fly out of Vegas, only three or four of them youngsters born in the 1980s or 1990s. One Saudi royal passenger was Prince Turki bin Faisal, more famous as the head of Saudi Arabia’s bloodstained and much feared intelligence service from 1977 until he was abruptly fired in August 2001.
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important info in the snipped parts - a must read.
the names of the people on the planes are very interesting. not all of them were Saudis.

[mulethree]

1. Planes should have flown to Gitmo

I bet more than half these passengers were more involved than half the
people in Gitmo. But who knows - seeing as we still don't know who's in Gitmo.

[donsu]

2. saw on CNN yesterday that Gitmo has a golf course and pro golfers

go down there to play with - the troops? officers?

obscene

[FlaGranny]

3. What happened to the bin Laden family who,

it was reported locally, few from Florida with a couple of days of September 11th? I think they flew from Orlando?

[DemonFighterLives]

4. thanks for the info

I originally thought there was only 1 flight. I'm sure there is much to learn about these folks and their counterparts here.

[lostnfound]

5. kick for those who might want to research this nt