dont forget - Bush had FBI 'back-off' Bin Laden pre-911

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

Read BBC's Greg Palast



FBI AND US SPY AGENTS SAY BUSH SPIKED BIN LADEN PROBES BEFORE 11 SEPTEMBER
The Guardian (London)
Wednesday Nov 7, 2001

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Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11
by Greg Palast and David Pallister

FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11.

US intelligence agencies have come under criticism for their wholesale failure to predict the catastrophe at the World Trade Centre. But some are complaining that their hands were tied.

FBI documents shown on BBC Newsnight last night and obtained by the Guardian show that they had earlier sought to investigate two of Osama bin Laden's relatives in Washington and a Muslim organisation, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), with which they were linked.

The FBI file, marked Secret and coded 199, which means a case involving national security, records that Abdullah bin Laden, who lived in Washington, had originally had a file opened on him "because of his relationship with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth - a suspected terrorist organisation".


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[soupkitchen]

1. So these guys have been flying into the US for two years?

Wrong thread. See FAA bars Saudi pilots

[monkeyboy]

2. Vanity Fair has an article this month...

...on BFEE flying Bin Ladins out of US on 9/12. Haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it looks juicy.