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?

[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.

[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...