TIA now verifies flight of Saudis

[DainBramaged]

http://www.saintpetersburgtimes.com/2004/06/09/Tampabay/TIA_now_verifies_flig.shtml


The government has long denied that two days after the 9/11 attacks, the three were allowed to fly.



TAMPA - Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, a small jet landed at Tampa International Airport, picked up three young Saudi men and left.

The men, one of them thought to be a member of the Saudi royal family, were accompanied by a former FBI agent and a former Tampa police officer on the flight to Lexington, Ky.

The Saudis then took another flight out of the country. The two ex-officers returned to TIA a few hours later on the same plane.

For nearly three years, White House, aviation and law enforcement officials have insisted the flight never took place and have denied published reports and widespread Internet speculation about its purpose.

More at link.



This is going to be interesting. I hope it is not a dupe, forgive me if it is.

[benburch]

1. So, Rush, Michael Moore is a liar, eh?

I'll be waiting tomorrow for Rush, and Hannity, and Savage to retract that little bit of slander.

[gp]

2. I looked up one of the names...

Of those, three listed residences on Normandy Trace Drive in Tampa, and all of them held Florida drivers' licenses. They are Ahmad Al Hazmi, then 19, Fahad Al Zeid, then 20, and Talal M. Al Mejrad, then 18, all male Saudis.

Two of the nineteen hijackers on 9/11 were
Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Salim Al-Hazmi.

relatives??

http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/2002/dci_testimony_06182002/DCI_18_June_testimony_new.pdf