What they DIDN'T do was fly out of the US until after the ban on flights was lifted. However, there was a flight that travelled around WITHIN the US picking up Bin Laden members and bringing them to a central location from where they flew out after the ban was lifted.
So Bin Ladens WERE flying as Snopes was forced to admit:
I owe Michael Moore an apology. In a January 2002 interview with Al D'Amato and Alan Colmes of the FOX Network, Michael Moore said:
"Why did this country allow the bin Laden family, two days after — two days after September 11 — to fly around America and pick up all the bin Laden relatives, about 24 of them, and take them to Europe? Not a single one of them was interrogated by the FBI."
That set me off on a tirade, and it shouldn't have. Part of Mr. Moore's statement has since been proved to be correct — during the ban on air travel, some Saudis (including members of the bin Laden family) were transported by air to assembly points in the U.S. in preparation for their leaving the country. In an earlier version of this article, I ranted and raved about his avowing bin Laden flights had taken place while no one was allowed to fly. Yet some did, at least within the U.S.
I shouldn't have yelled at him. He was right about that.http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flight.htmToo bad Spinsanity were too busy trying to spin Moore's book to check the facts eh?