The great escape. Immediately after 9/11, dozens of Saudi royals and members of the bin Laden family fled the U.S. in a secret airlift authorized by the Bush White House. One passenger was an alleged al-Qaida go-between, who may have known about the terror attacks in advance. Our first excerpt from "House of Bush, House of Saud." [Salon.com]
I first came across this story while reading Michael Moore's Dude Where's My Country. Basically a day or so after 9/11, when all civilian air traffic was shut down (and I was stranded in Houston), the Bush administration allowed a couple of private jets to fly all over the U.S. picking up Saudi royals and bin Landens and then take them overseas where they would be "safe". A little odd considering that most of the 9/11 al-Qaida terrorists were Saudi citizens and a bin Laden holds the top spot within al-Qaida. Seems like you would want to at least talk to those people to see if they had any useful info. Of course, the Bush family has had very close personal and business ties to both the Saudi royal family and the bin Landen family for many years (read Moore's book for the full story). It also raises the question of why this hasn't been covered more by the press?
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