adhay
September 3, 2010, 12:48pm
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Try also http://hir.harvard.edu/the-saudi-flights-revisited
According to US Customs and Border Protection records acquired by Judicial Watch, a conservative foundation that “promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government,” an additional 160 Saudi nationals left the United States after the 9/11 attacks on some fifty commercial flights from twenty cities. This apparently occurred without FBI checks of the passenger manifests against terrorist watch lists.
On September 13, the same day as the Tampa flight, the ambassador Prince Bandar visited the White House and had a conversation with President Bush. They met on the Truman Balcony; Vice President Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Bandar’s aide Rihab Massoud were also present. The timing of the meeting suggests that the evacuation of Saudis may have been discussed, but this is unverifiable and has been denied by the White House. The Saudi embassy comments only that the flights were approved by “the highest level of the US government.” The meeting between Bandar and Bush had been arranged prior to 9/11 to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, but that agenda was preempted by the attacks. Bandar is an old and close friend of the Bush family, and his relations with the President on September 13—an embrace as greeting, cigars on the balcony—suggest a mood of conciliation and solidarity. For the two days following the attacks, Bandar was also in close contact with the FBI, Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Bush loved the Saudis. They could be counted on to bail out his failed businesses and kick in money for his wars. The Bush family got very wealthy from the love of Saudis. If the Saudi oil ran out the Bush family would abandon them so fast their camels would get sucked into the exhaust.
adhay
September 3, 2010, 6:12pm
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Anyone else find some irony in Bush and Cheney smoking cigars with bin Laden while the towers were still smoldering?
Shameless.
