BinLadenRelatives

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Only a few days after Sep11th, the FBI allowed some Bin Laden relatives to leave the United States with a plane, missing the opportunity to interrogate them on Osama. (See Palast,Greg) This oddity was mentioned by Frank Rich of the NY Times, almost 15 months later, when he criticised Woodward,Bob new book "Bush at War": "... The Saudis are remarkably minor figures. 'We need to know whoever is giving money and deal with them,' says President Bush, who vows to personally contact the leader of any nation reluctant to cooperate with the crackdown. But the Saudis' continued resistance to these entreaties goes unreported. Even odder is that Mr. Woodward's book, for all its you-are-there theatrics in recounting the days after 9/11, makes no mention at all of what happened on 9/18: the administration's collaboration with the Saudis in flying bin Laden family members out of America. What old/oil boy network pulled those strings in the White House? Why did the F.B.I. not verify whether the fleeing bin Ladens were both personally and financially estranged from Osama? Neither the Americans nor the Saudis have yet lifted the veil on this dead-of-night exodus..." Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/07/opinion/07RICH.html?ex=1039842000&en=255ec7d824492b9b&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE