Has W ever met Osama?

[brainshrub]

Has Bush ever met Osama in person? I don't think so, but I want to make sure.

[Kraklen]

1. I wouldn't be surprise if Bush Sr. had.

During the soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Or Rumsfeld.

[Stephanie]

2. Bush's best pal James Bath did investments for Salem bin Laden

back in TX, right after they both got out of the TANG. Right after they were both suspended as pilots.

[Stephanie]

3. Here you go >

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1447218#transcript

AMY GOODMAN: And what is Bath’s connection to the Bushes?

J. H. HATFIELD: Well he <Bath> was also in the National Guard with George W. back in the 70’s which is interesting too because in 1972 in August, my publisher was able not too long ago to get hold of Bush’s national guard records. And in 1972, at the same time we alleged he was doing community service for cocaine arrest James Bath who was in the unit with him. Both of them were grounded for failing to show up for medical exam. 14:19

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http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=480

After the death of Mohammed bin Laden, control of the company passed to Salem bin Laden, Osama’s half brother. The roots of the first known Bush-bin Laden convergence date back to the mid-1970s, when the two clans were linked by a Houston businessman named James R. Bath. Bath had befriended George W. Bush in the late 1960s, when they both served in the Texas Air National Guard. By 1976, when Gerald Ford appointed the elder George Bush as CIA director, Bath was acting as a business agent for Salem bin Laden’s interests in Texas. (Texas and Saudi Arabia were well-connected by this point through U.S. oil companies and related industries with operations in both locations.) In 1991 Time magazine and later other publications reported on allegations by Bath’s former business partner that the Bush CIA hired Bath in 1976 to create offshore companies to move CIA funds and aircraft between Texas and Saudi Arabia.

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[SoCalDem]

4. Poppy was in "bidness" with his daddy..The bin ladens were in Texas

when senior bin laden died in a 'small plane crash'.Osama & *² were close in age, two sons of priviledge..I would bet that they did meet.. Hell, they probably went cruisin' for chicks together.

EDIT:..it was a helicopter

[Stephanie]

5. It was Osama's half brother Salem who died in the small plane crash

[SoCalDem]

9. Hmm.. I had read that it was his daddy...

Off to google some more :)

[SoCalDem]

11. "Osama's father (along with his American pilot) died in a helicopter crash

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In 1968, Osama's father (along with his American pilot) died in a helicopter crash, and Osama, at the age of thirteen, inherited eighty million dollars. When he was fifteen, he had his own stable of horses, and at nineteen he entered King Abdul-Aziz University, in Jidda, where he received a civil-engineering degree in 1979. A barber who saw him often in the early nineteen-seventies has told the Mideast Mirror that in Beirut's flashy night clubs and bars his client was known as a free-spending, fun-loving young man—"a heavy drinker who often ended up embroiled in shouting matches and fistfights with other young men over an attractive night-club dancer or barmaid."


more @
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?010924fr_archive03

[Stephanie]

12. I wonder where the crash was?

The bin Ladens seem to have the same bad luck with small planes and helicopters as many of the Bushes' acquintances have had.

[SoCalDem]

14. Osama was 10 when his father died..I had thought he was older

but that was probably when the other bin laden crashed..

[Initech]

6. I'm pretty sure we already have Osama

Bush is going to deliver him with a big ribbon around his torso to America just in time before he leaves office.

[Clark2008]

8. Well someone's been taking care of him.

I highly doubt those mules and camels can cart around a dialysis machine through the hills and hollers of the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.

[Kerrytravelers]

7. I don't know, but he sure was quick to get the bin Laden family out

of the US soon after 9-11.

[Island Blue]

10. I don't know but I'm sure if he has he's "forgotten" about it.

Just like Jeb "forgot" he ever met John Roberts. Just like Cheney "forgot" he ever met John Edwards. Remembering isn't their strong suit.

[Ikonoklast]

13. Oh Hell yes!

Why do you think Shrub spends so much time at Crawford? I've had a sneaking suspicion for some time that Ol' Osama has been sitting by the veranda there drinking gin and tonics with the twins waiting for his pal W to show up so they can plan some more mischief.

[Patty Diana]

15. Does a bear shit in the woods?? He was in business with Osama's

brother Salem, until Salem died in a MYSTERIOUS plane crash.