Originally posted by StabbyTheIcePic
The Bush family and the Bin Laden family are close friends. They have been for decades. They were the only ones allowed to fly out of the US on 9/11.
excerpt from 9/11 commission Staff Statement Nr. 10No commercial planes, including chartered flights, were permitted to fly into out of or within the United States until September 13, 2001. After the airspace reopened, six chartered flights with 142 people, mostly Saudi Arabian nationals, departed from the United States between September 14 and 24.
(at the request of the Saudi Arabian Government)One flight, the so-called Bin Ladin flight, departed the United States on September 20 with 26 passengers, most of them relatives of Usama Bin Ladin. We have found no credible evidence that any chartered flights of Saudi Arabian nationals departed the United States before the reopening of national airspace.
The request came to the attention of Richard Clarke and each of the flights was investigated by the FBI and dealt with in a professional manner prior to its departure.