Osama's Family on 9/11

[-Cp]

Anyone here know why our Government had Osama's family safely flown out of the country on that dreadful day when ALL other flights couldn't get off the ground? Even folks in our own government couldn't fly anywhere yet we escort this bastard's family out?

Wouldn't we have been better served to have them escorted to the nearest interrogation office instead?

Anyone have any links to this (from credible sources) and why this was the case?

*note: No, I'm not turning "Lib" - just trying to find out what's up w/ this story... seems as if it had been "swept under the rug"....

[theHawk]

I remember when that happened they said it was to protect them from retaliation attacks from ignorant people. Because the bin Laden family is a big and powerful famliy that runs a construction company, and long before 9/11 they renounced what Osama had been doing as a terrorist and he was long since disowned from the family. I guess Bush thought he was doing the right thing.

[Dilloduck]

Americans don't hold family members hostage.

[gabosaurus]

Excellent point, cp!! I have wondered about that for years.
Normally, when a crime has been committed, authorities question their next of kin. Instead, the Bushies rounded up all the bin Laden family and flew them out of the country. For which they were lauded in the Saudi state media.
A member of the Pentagon at the time has stated that the Saudi Royal Family demanded that the bin Laden family be flown out of the country to "avoid retribution." At that time, no one had officially pinned the crime on bin Laden. So how did the Saudis know, unless they were directly connected to it.

Americans don't hold family members hostage.

Is this why the American government rounded up entire "suspect" families in the weeks following Sept. 11 and held them for questioning?
I think it is fairly odd that we took hundreds of "people of interest" into custody, but let all of a terrorist's family leave the country, at our expense.
I guess the Arabs don't know him as "Bandar Bush" for nothing.

[-Cp]

I dunno.. just seems odd that we'd fly his family out - when even our own ppl couldn't fly out that day and at least not even question them...

Also seems odd that after 6 years we still have no clue on the whereabouts of Osama - either dead or alive.....

Seems wierd too that Clinton had the chance to kill him in Torra Borra and said "no"....

WTH?

[Dilloduck]

Excellent point, cp!! I have wondered about that for years.
Normally, when a crime has been committed, authorities question their next of kin. Instead, the Bushies rounded up all the bin Laden family and flew them out of the country. For which they were lauded in the Saudi state media.
A member of the Pentagon at the time has stated that the Saudi Royal Family demanded that the bin Laden family be flown out of the country to "avoid retribution." At that time, no one had officially pinned the crime on bin Laden. So how did the Saudis know, unless they were directly connected to it.



Is this why the American government rounded up entire "suspect" families in the weeks following Sept. 11 and held them for questioning?
I think it is fairly odd that we took hundreds of "people of interest" into custody, but let all of a terrorist's family leave the country, at our expense.
I guess the Arabs don't know him as "Bandar Bush" for nothing.

Since this wasn't your "normal" crime so you can throw you bullshit hypothesis out the window. Osama was the "black sheep" of the bin laden family and had been booted out of country after country. Anyone who had read his declaration of war on the US "knew" who was behind the New York massacre the second it happened.
Questioning people is a far cry from holding people hostages. Knowing the Saudi family has been nothing but an asset in the WOT.
Go back to your moonbat cave, girl. The daylight has fried you brain.

[-Cp]

Yeah Dillo - my point here isn't to get the rabid likes of gabby and the hard-left ilk to start tossing out silly conspiracry crap, but to have an honest, intellectual look at the reasons behind it...

Even if he was "kicked out of this family" - I still think, under the light of the worst attack on American Soil EVER, they still needed to be questioned...

[Dilloduck]

Yeah Dillo - my point here isn't to get the rabid likes of gabby and the hard-left ilk to start tossing out silly conspiracry crap, but to have an honest, intellectual look at the reasons behind it...

Even if he was "kicked out of this family" - I still think, under the light of the worst attack on American Soil EVER, they still needed to be questioned...

-CP---We knew the answers----Osamas' evil aspirations were a secret to no one. Additionally if the Bin Laden family was to be interreogated ANYWHERE , what better place to do it in the secrecy of Saudi Arabia ? I bet the Sauds had a few questions they wanted to ask themselves too since Osama is damned and determined to overthrow them.

[krisy]

Is it possible that they had allready been watching Bin Laden's family,with the intent of hearing something between him and then, and knew they were clean of any wrongdoing? Before 9-11 that is.

Just a thought

[-Cp]

-CP---We knew the answers----Osamas' evil aspirations were a secret to no one. Additionally if the Bin Laden family was to be interreogated ANYWHERE , what better place to do it in the secrecy of Saudi Arabia ? I bet the Sauds had a few questions they wanted to ask themselves too since Osama is damned and determined to overthrow them.

You're using asumptions here bud.... We still don't know the answers regarding OBL's family....

It's the principle of the matter IMO..

[Dilloduck]

You're using asumptions here bud.... We still don't know the answers regarding OBL's family....

It's the principle of the matter IMO..

Only to dispute the assumptions that Bush was somehow privy to some special info or was in anyway protecting criminals.

[lily]

I dunno.. just seems odd that we'd fly his family out - when even our own ppl couldn't fly out that day and at least not even question them...

That is a good question, along with the other questions floating around. Maybe the release of the CIA papers will tell us something.

Seems wierd too that Clinton had the chance to kill him in Torra Borra and said "no"....

WTH?

Um.......that was Bush.

[nevadamedic]

That is a good question, along with the other questions floating around. Maybe the release of the CIA papers will tell us something.





Um.......that was Bush.

They should have been detained, they had to know something about where he would go and who's helping him, if not they would have made good leverage.

[gabosaurus]

-CP---We knew the answers----Osamas' evil aspirations were a secret to no one. Additionally if the Bin Laden family was to be interreogated ANYWHERE , what better place to do it in the secrecy of Saudi Arabia ? I bet the Sauds had a few questions they wanted to ask themselves too since Osama is damned and determined to overthrow them.

Dillo, you have been drinking WAY too much Bush propaganda Kool-Aid. If Osama's "evil aspirations" were not a secret, how did he manage to pull off an attack on American soil? (Well, beside the fact that the Bushies totally ignored his threats, including an August memo that warned against commercial airliners being used as weapons).
The Saudis questioned no one. The bin Laden family are prominent members of Saudi society. Saudi Arabia hosts and financially assists more known terrorist cells than any other country in the world. The 9-11 Commission Report was reduced to a mockery after the Saudi government demanded the removal of over 200 pages that implicated Saudi citizens.

[-Cp]

Dillo, you have been drinking WAY too much Bush propaganda Kool-Aid. If Osama's "evil aspirations" were not a secret, how did he manage to pull off an attack on American soil? (Well, beside the fact that the Bushies totally ignored his threats, including an August memo that warned against commercial airliners being used as weapons).
The Saudis questioned no one. The bin Laden family are prominent members of Saudi society. Saudi Arabia hosts and financially assists more known terrorist cells than any other country in the world. The 9-11 Commission Report was reduced to a mockery after the Saudi government demanded the removal of over 200 pages that implicated Saudi citizens.

Stop being a partisan hack.... Bush has done more to thwart Osama than Clinton ever did - hell, Clinton HAD the chance to have him killed but denied it...

Additionally, the Saudi's offered Osama to him but he declined...

Stop dragging your political views into this...