Questions for the FBI: 1) Who helped evacuate Saudi nationals ?

Unasked Questions
by Craig Unger

The 9/11 commission should ask who helped evacuate Saudi nationals in the days following the attacks.

http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10232

Unasked Questions


Craig Unger, the former editor of Boston Magazine, is the author of "House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties" (Scribner, March 2004).


In its tough questioning of Richard Clarke and Condoleezza Rice, the 9/11 commission has already shown itself to be more resolute than some skeptics predicted. Many Americans now realize that multiple warnings of an Al Qaeda attack on American soil crossed the desks of Bush administration officials in the months leading up to 9/11. The administration's previously unchallenged narrative has begun to unravel.

But when hearings resume on April 13, we may learn exactly how tough the commission is prepared to be. This time the stars will be Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert S. Mueller III, among others. When they testify—especially Mueller—we will see whether or not the commission has the stomach to address what may be the single most egregious security lapse related to the attacks: the evacuation of approximately 140 Saudis just two days after 9/11.

This episode raises particularly sensitive questions for the administration. Never before in history has a president of the United States had such a close relationship with another foreign power as President Bush and his father have had with the Saudi royal family, the House of Saud. I have traced more than $1.4 billion in investments and contracts that went from the House of Saud over the past 20 years to companies in which the Bushes and their allies have had prominent positions—Harken Energy, Halliburton and the Carlyle Group among them. Is it possible that President Bush himself played a role in authorizing the evacuation of the Saudis after 9/11? What did he know and when did he know it?

Let's go back to Sept. 13, 2001, and look at several scenes that were taking place simultaneously. Three thousand people had just been killed. The toxic rubble of the World Trade Center was still ablaze. American airspace was locked down. Not even Bill Clinton and Al Gore, who were out of the country, were allowed to fly home. And a plane bearing a replacement heart for a desperately ill Seattle man was forced down short of its destination by military aircraft. Not since the days of the Wright Brothers had American skies been so empty.

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Other than the much needed publicity. Most of that whole group doing it is even putting the Warren Commision to shame at being a sham.

They raise lots of questions but most are never attempted at being answered

For a little Artwork to realy wonder about, look at this and when it was drawn ????



Mortadelo and the WTC Attack

In Mortadelo y Filemon, El 35 anniversario, the final image of the title story contains a detail which suggests that author Fransisco Ibáñez may have foreseen the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center buildings in New York. The image was drawn in 1992. This book was published in July 1994.

We thank Ramon Martinez Cazon for pointing us to this detail!
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/spanish_cartoon_predicted_wtc_attack.htm

yes, I don't think it would have taken an 'expert' to note this vulnerabilty. I'm surprised Hollywood hadn't already depicted something similar in one of their disaster flicks.

and yes, the 9-11 commission is a sham.

Without a formal investigation legaly we might never find out the exact person(s)involved, though one might think there could be a slip of some paperwork by someone in the know. Clarke is also somewhat of liar, but maybe less so


'White House approved evacuation of Saudi nationals'

By Sridhar Krishnaswami

Washington Sept. 4. In an admission that has raise eyebrows on Capitol Hill, officials at the White House are said to have approved a plan to evacuate scores of prominent Saudi Arabian nationals in this country, including members of the Osama bin Laden family in the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.

A former advisor at the White House, Richard Clarke, has been quoted in The New York Times as saying that he agreed with the plan because the Federal Bureau of Investigation had informed him that the Saudi nationals departing were not linked to terrorism; and the White House feared retribution for the terrorist hijackings if they stayed back in the U.S.
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The Saudi Government has denied any role in the 9/11 events and has publicly called on the Bush administration to de-classify this section of the Congressional report, a request that has been quickly rejected by the U.S. President, George W. Bush.

Mr. Clarke's admission of the role by the White House in the departure of some 140 Saudi nationals has led to a call from the New York Senator, Charles Schumer, for an internal investigation by the White House on the matter. Mr. Schumer's suspicion is that some of those who left hurriedly, including two relatives of Osama, may have had links to terror outfits and, therefore, could have shed light on terror attacks.
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http://www.hindu.com/2003/09/05/stories/2003090500601500.htm

bin laden family.

wtf????

I believe he said the decision was made by the FBI. Did he approve it after that? I don't remember exactly what he said about this.