Friday, June 22, 2007

“Bin Laden Family Flight”

Does the FBI admit we screwed this up?
"Osama bin Laden may have chartered a plane that carried his family members and Saudi nationals out of the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said FBI documents released Wednesday.

The papers, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, were made public by Judicial Watch, a Washington-based group that investigates government corruption.

One FBI document referred to a Ryan Air 727 airplane that departed Los Angeles International Airport on September 19, 2001, and was said to have carried Saudi nationals out of the United States.

"The plane was chartered either by the Saudi Arabian royal family or Osama bin Laden," according to the document, which was among 224 pages posted online".

Democratic Underground
Well after all, Bush did say "money trumps peace". I guess he could have added that in some circumstances it could possibly trump justice, too.

We need to find out who authorized these people to leave and how thoroughly were they investigated before they left.

Nice investigative reporting, Judicial Watch.