Another angle: in light of the PDB and its explicit talk about Bin

[harrison]

Laden, can anyone explain why the Bin Laden family was then allowed to leave the United States?

Something is rotten in Denmark and Washington and Crawford.

[daveskilt]

1. not just allowed - but flown out by the US government

could it be * LIHOP?

[EdGy]

3. yes: Bush is in bed with the terrorists

it's as simple as that.

on edit; you've got to read Unger's "House of Bush, House of Saud"

[NewHampster]

2. Friends of the Sauds, friends of Haliburton

Its all just one big happy fuckin fraternity of Oil pumping bastards.

[Unknown Known]

4. Remember what Clarke said about this

He refused to sign off on it and handed it over to FBI. He didn't know after that what the FBI did with it, but said the order for this had to come directly from the WH.

[Stephanie]

7. He said it either came from Andy Card or from State

My bet would be Card.

[billybob537]

5. Can you imagine

how pissed off the Saudi's would be if we rounded up members of the royal families extended family, after all the money the spent buying bush out of failed businesses, and into political offices. They'd probably stop selling us oil and buy up all the oil they could afford.Then we'd be fucked! Then just for laughs they could pull the $3 trillion out of US investments and crash our stock market.:evilfrown:

[scottxyz]

6. Read Craig Unger's Book

"House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Families"

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/03/12/unger_2/index_np.html
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/03/11/unger_1/index_np.html

The Sauds have paid a total of 1.477 BILLION dollars to Bush over the years.

He is their hired lackey.