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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.

But now, at the request of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, TIA officials have
confirmed that the flight did take place and have supplied details.

The odyssey of the small LearJet 35 is part of a larger controversy over the hasty exodus from the
United States in the days immediately after 9/11 of members of the Saudi royal family and
relatives of Osama bin Laden.

The terrorism panel, better known as the 9/11 Commission, said in April that it knew of six
chartered flights with 142 people aboard, mostly Saudis, that left the United States between Sept.
14 and 24, 2001. But it has said nothing about the Tampa flight.

The commission's general counsel, Daniel Marcus, asked TIA in a letter dated May 25 for any
information about "a chartered flight with six people, including a Saudi prince, that flew from
Tampa, Florida on or about Sept. 13, 2001." He asked for the information no later than June 8.

TIA officials said they sent their reply on Monday.

The airport used aircraft tracking equipment normally assigned to a noise abatement program to
determine the identity of all aircraft entering TIA airspace on Sept. 13, and found four records for
the LearJet 35.

The plane first entered the airspace from the south, possibly from the Fort Lauderdale area,
sometime after 3 p.m. and landed for the first time at 3:34 p.m. It took off at 4:37 p.m., headed
north. It returned to Tampa at 8:23 p.m. and took off again at 8:48 p.m., headed south.

Author Craig Unger, who first disclosed the possibility of a post- 9/11 Saudi airlift in his book
House of Bush, House of Saud, said in an interview that he believes the jet came to Tampa a
second time to drop off two former law enforcement agents from Tampa who accompanied three
young Saudis to Lexington for security purposes.

The Saudis asked the Tampa Police Department to escort the flight, but the department handed
off the assignment to Dan Grossi, a former member of the force, Unger said. Grossi recruited
Manuel Perez, a retired FBI agent, to accompany him. Both described the flight to Unger as

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FRIDAY, J U N E 11, 2004

Saudi Flights
An article from the St. Petersburg Times recounts how a plane
carried three young Saudi men from Tampa to Lexington,
Kentucky, on September 13, 2001, when most flights were
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7. No flight of fancy

The New York Daily News

It's been fodder for conspiracy theorists since 9/11: While the nation's airspace was locked down,
Saudi royals and relatives of Osama Bin Laden were whisked out of the country.

Yes, said the government, six airliners flew 142 people, mostly Saudis, out of the U.S. But no, it
said, one supposed flight from Tampa didn't exist. Only now, it seems, it did. Officials at Tampa's
airport told the 9/11 commission last week that a Learjet picked up three young Saudis and flew
them to Lexington, Ky. There, they met up with others and left for London on an airliner with
Arabic markings.

Now, there's nothing mysterious about the Saudis arranging safe passage. And, it seems, the
flights were legal because airspace was slowly reopening. But for three years, the feds denied
there had been a Tampa flight. The 9/11 commission, having concluded there was nothing fishy
about the six airliners and that the FBI properly screened all passengers, is now looking at the
mysterious Tampa flight. It needs to. The flight is one of those small details that should be nailed
down, ending conspiracy theories once and for all.
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1. 9-11 Probe Up in Air on Osama Kin Flights

JAMES GORDON MEEK

The New York Daily News

The 9/11 commission is no longer certain that Saudis - including members of Osama Bin Laden's
family - did not fly out of the country immediately after the terror attacks when all aircraft were
grounded, officials said yesterday.

In recent weeks, the panel's investigators have scrambled to re-interview current and former FBI
leaders about the flights at the request of lawmakers, sources said.

"In trying to get to the bottom of [the Saudi flights], you find a lot of difficulty navigating that murky,
sludge-filled bottom," said commissioner Tim Roemer, a former Democratic lawmaker who is
leading the renewed effort. "There are just not a lot of solid answers on this."

The FBI officials have been pressed in private by Roemer and staff investigators to say if the
Saudis were given special permission to fly around the U.S. and out of its air space before it
reopened to commercial planes on Sept. 13, the sources said.

"They're exploring both possibilities," said one source who has been quizzed by the panel.

The FBI's former counterterror chief, Dale Watson, and former Acting FBI Director Tom Pickard
were among those re-interviewed by the commission, sources said.

No evidence has been presented publicly indicating the Saudis were allowed to fly before the air
space was reopened.

But one lingering issue concerns private investigators who were hired to fly Saudis on Sept. 13
from Tampa, Fla., to Lexington, Ky. At the time, only commercial planes were allowed to take off,
not private planes.

FBI officials have said that air space restrictions forced the group to drive to Lexington, where
Prince Ahmed, owner of the Thoroughbred War Emblem, waited.

Tampa International Airport released electronic records yesterday that they gave to the
commission indicating the Saudis did indeed fly from Tampa.

"We identified the aircraft the commission was asking about," said airport spokeswoman Brenda
Geoghagan.

FBI officials indicated that they were unconcerned with the departure of the Saudis, including Bin
Laden's family members.

The FBI repeatedly had dangled a $5 million reward in front of Bin Laden's siblings who were
living in the U.S. before 9/11 for help in tracking down the terrorist.

"We started every conversation with, 'Hey, how'd you like to make $5 million?' They'd just look at
us, like, 'Are you kidding?'" said a top FBI source.

The wealthy family members convinced the feds they had no information about their brother and
at least one even encouraged them to nail Bin Laden.
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9/11 PROBE UP IN AIR ON OSAMA KIN FLIGHTS
By JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Thursday, June 10th, 2004

WASHINGTON - The 9/11 commission is no longer certain that Saudis - including

members of Osama Bin Laden's family - did not fly out of the country immediately
after the terror attacks when all aircraft were grounded, officials said yesterday.

In recent weeks, the panel's investigators have scrambled to re-interview current and
former FBI leaders about the flights at the request of lawmakers, sources said.

"In trying to get to the bottom of [the Saudi flights], you find a lot of difficulty
navigating that murky, sludge-filled bottom," said commissioner Tim Roemer, a
former Democratic lawmaker who is leading the renewed effort. "There are just not a
lot of solid answers on this."

The FBI officials have been pressed in private by Roemer and staff investigators to
say if the Saudis were given special permission to fly around the U.S. and out of its
air space before it reopened to commercial planes on Sept. 13, the sources said.

"They're exploring both possibilities," said one source who has been quizzed by the
panel.

The FBI's former counterterror chief, Dale Watson, and former Acting FBI Director
Tom Pickard were among those re-interviewed by the commission, sources said.

No evidence has been presented publicly indicating the Saudis were allowed to fly
before the air space was reopened.

But one lingering issue concerns private investigators who were hired to fly Saudis on
Sept. 13 from Tampa, Fla., to Lexington, Ky. At the time, only commercial planes
were allowed to take off, not private planes.

FBI officials have said that air space restrictions forced the group to drive to
Lexington, where Prince Ahmed, owner of the Thoroughbred War Emblem, waited.

Tampa International Airport released electronic records yesterday that they gave to
the commission indicating the Saudis did indeed fly from Tampa.

"We identified the aircraft the commission was asking about," said airport
spokeswoman Brenda Geoghagan.

FBI officials indicated that they were unconcerned with the departure of the Saudis,
including Bin Laden's family members.

The FBI repeatedly had dangled a $5 million reward in front of Bin Laden's siblings
who were living in the U.S. before 9/11 for help in tracking down the terrorist.

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CHARLES E.SCHUMER COMMITTEES:

NEW YORK

6ANKING
JUDICIARY

United States Senate RULES

WASHINGTON, DC 20510

June 16,2004

Inspector General Glen Fine

Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530

Dear Inspector General Fine:

Recent revelations concerning apreviously unreportcd flight carrying Saudi nationals, possibly
including a member of the Saudi royal family, between Tampa, FL, and Lexington, KY, on
September 13, 2001, has brought into question previous Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
reports concerning such flights. I am writing to urge you to conduct an immediate investigation into
any failure of the FBI to disclose information related to the existence of flights by citizens of Saudi
Arabia into and out of the United States immediately priorto and following the events of September
11.2001. In order to ensure that any remaining questions about these flights' passengers and purpose
are addressed, I also urge you to prepare a comprehensive report for submission to Congress
containing all information relating to the approval and conduct of domestic and international flights
transporting Saudi Arabian nationals in the week prior to and following the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

It has recently been reported that a LearJet 35 aircraft carrying six individuals, including three
young Saudi Arabian men, one of whom is speculated to be a member of the loyal family, flew from
Tampa to Lexhigton just two days after the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001 in order to allow
the Saudis to board a flight from Lexington to London. These reports directly contradict the FBI's
version of the events in which they claim that these individuals drove from Tampa to Lexington.
It has also been reported that mere is no manifest for the 9/13 flight and the Tampa International
Airport Police Department has said that its records indicate no member of its force screened the
plane's passengers.

I am troubled that such a flight could have been allowed to take place just two days after the
terrorist attacks of 9/11, and it is absolutely essential mat the information regarding the
circumstances under which this flight was approved and why its existence was not previously
disclosed are brought to light The failure of the FBI to disclose the existence of this reported flight
also raises the possibility that previous FBI disclosures regarding post 9/11 flights were incomplete
and that information regarding as of yet undisclosed flights and related matters may still exist

Revelations that the FBI did not fully disclose information directly related to such an important
and sensitive topic can only serve to heighten doubts about previous statements concerning these
flights and the forthrightness of the federal government. In order to dispel these doubts an
information regarding these flights must be disclosed so that Congress and the American people can
understand why these flights were allowed to proceed.
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08/16/04 17:21 FAX

Accordingly, I urge you to prepare a comprehensive report for Congress containing all previously
disclosed flight information as wen as any new information that may have not yet corae to light.
In addition, to passenger screening information, manifests, and destinations, the report should include
a description of who was responsible for approving these Sights, an explanation for the failure of the
FBI to disclose the Tampa flight, and all existing information relating to these flights that has not
previously been disclosed.

In oiderto gain a complete comprehension of the terrorist attacks of September 1 1, 2001, as well
as the events and decisions that took place in their aftermath, it is crucial to learn why these flights
were allowed to take place and why information regarding these flights has been so closely guarded.
I thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Sincerely,

Charles E. Schuraer
United States Senate
June 20th, 2004 2:00 pm
The New York Times: Will Michael Moore's Facts Check Out?

By PHILIP SHENON / The New York Times

Michael Moore is not coy about his hopes for "Fahrenheit 9/11," his blistering documentary attack
on President Bush and the war in Iraq. He wants it to be remembered as the first big-audience,
election-year film that helped unseat a president.

"And it's not just a hope," the Oscar-winning filmmaker said in a phone interview last week,
describing focus groups in Michigan in April at which, after seeing the movie, previously
undecided voters expressed eagerness to defeat Mr. Bush. "We found that if you entered the
theater on the fence, you fell off it somewhere during those two hours," he said. "It ignites a fire in
people who had given up."

The movie's indictment of the president is nothing if not sprawling. Mr. Moore suggests that Mr.
Bush and his administration jeopardized national security in an effort to placate Bush family
cronies in Saudi Arabia, that the White House helped members of Mr. bin Laden's family to flee
the United States after Sept. 11 and that the administration manipulated terrorism alert levels in
order to scare Americans into supporting the invasion of Iraq.

Mr. Moore's previous films generated a cottage industry of conservative commentators eager to
prove sloppiness and exaggeration in his films; a handful of mainstream critics have also found
flaws. But if "Fahrenheit 9/11" attracts the audience Mr. Moore and his distributors are predicting,
Mr. Moore may face an onslaught of fact-checking unlike anything he ? or any other documentary
filmmaker ? has ever experienced. After all, White House officials and the Bush family began
impugning the film even before any of them had seen it.

"Outrageously false," said Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, last month
when told about the film's assertion of a sinister connection between Mr. Bush and the family of
Osama bin Laden. The former president George H. W. Bush was quoted in The New York Daily
News calling Mr. Moore a "slime ball" and describing the documentary as "a vicious personal
attack on our son."

So how will Mr. Moore's movie stand up under close examination? Is the film's depiction of Mr.
Bush as a lazy and duplicitous leader, blinded by his family's financial ties to Arab moneymen
and the Saudi Arabian royal family, true to fact?

Mr. Moore and his distributors have refused to circulate copies of the film and its script before the
film's release this Friday; his production team said that as of last Wednesday, there was no final
script because the film was still undergoing minor editing ? for clarity, they said, not accuracy.

After a year spent covering the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, I was
recently allowed to attend a Hollywood screening. Based on that single viewing, and after
separating out what is clearly presented as Mr. Moore's opinion from what is stated as fact, it
seems safe to say that central assertions of fact in "Fahrenheit 9/11" are supported by the public
record (indeed, many of them will be familiar to those who have closely followed Mr. Bush's
political career).

Mr. Moore is on firm ground in arguing that the Bushes, like many prominent Texas families with
oil interests, have profited handsomely from their relationships with prominent Saudis, including
members of the royal family and of the large and fabulously wealthy bin Laden clan, which has
insisted it long ago disowned Osama. Mr. Moore spends several minutes in the film documenting
ties between the president and James R. Bath, a financial advisor to a prominent member of the
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Kentucky am

Posted on Thu, Jun. 10, 2004

Tampa airport officials confirm post-9/11 jet flight to Lexington

SAUDI PRINCE THOUGHT TO HAVE LEFT U.S. WHILE AIR TRAVEL RESTRICTED

STAFF, WIRE REPORTS

After nearly three years during which federal officials denied the story, officials at Tampa International Airport have now
confirmed that a small jet flew from Tampa to Lexington just two days after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
according to a published report.

Details of the flight, supplied by the Tampa airport at the request of the national Commission on Terrorist Attacks,
indicate that the plane picked up three young Saudi men there and left for Lexington's Blue Grass Airport.

The men, one of whom was 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, according to an article in yesterday's editions of the St. Petersburg
Times.

In Lexington, the plane is believed to have picked up Saudi Prince Ahmed bin Salman, a horseman who had been
attending horse sales at Keeneland, according to an account in a recent book, House of Bush, House of Saud. The book
says the party then traveled to London.

The story of the plane, a LearJet 35, has been a subject of Internet speculation and conspiracy theories for several
months. Some, including the book's author, Craig Linger, suggest that the quick evacuation of Saudi nationals was a
political favor extended by the Bush administration at a time when most air travel was restricted.

Fifteen of the 19 terrorists who hijacked airplanes on Sept. 11 were Saudi.

As far as Lexington's Blue Grass Airport is concerned, spokesman Tom Tyra said that commercial flights were cleared to
resume on Thursday, Sept. 13, shortly after noon — hours before the Saudi plane apparently took off. The first flight left
Blue Grass, bound for Atlanta, at 12:50 p.m. that day, he said.

Lexington was the 12th airport in the nation given clearance to resume flights after the terrorist attacks, Tyra said.

While small private planes remained grounded for some time after Sept. 11, Tyra said it's his understanding that larger
general aviation aircraft, such as corporate jets and "special circumstances" flights, were given clearance to leave Blue
Grass Airport and other airports on a case-by-case basis by the FAA.

The Saudi plane wasn't the only one to leave on Sept. 13 and through the weekend immediately following Sept. 11, Tyra
said. Other large private planes - from places such as Dubai, France and Spain — were at the airport for the September
sale at Keeneland. Many of them left on Friday and during the weekend, Tyra said.

However, getting a flight out of Tampa might have been more complicated. The St. Petersburg Times' story quoted FAA
spokes-man William Shumann as suggesting that air travel was being limited at the time to paid charter flights, but not
private, non-revenue flights.

The legality of the LearJet flight "hinges on whether somebody paid for it," Shumann told the newspaper. "That's the
key."

For nearly three years, officials with the White House, the Federal Aviation Administration and law enforcement have
insisted that the flights did not happen.

The FAA declined to comment to the Florida newspaper about the Tampa airport's disclosure. So did the FBI and the
9/11 commission.

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Posted November 26 2003

Air Florida Express, a charter firm that flies from Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas, has been ordered to
cease operations after being accused of falsifying weight and balance forms and failing to have enough
flotation devices for each passenger, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.

The company, based on the north side of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, is appealing
to have its air carrier certificate reinstated.

The company's certificate was revoked last month after a flight from the Bahamas to Fort Lauderdale on
June 17 in a single-engine Cessna 208 Caravan, the FAA said.

Although 10 passengers were on board, weight forms indicated only eight passengers, the FAA said.
One of those passengers was seated in the front right seat, next to the pilot, which is not allowed in a
Cessna 208 unless only eight passengers are on board, the FAA said.

Further, the FAA said, the pilot, P.J. Khan, the principal owner of Air Florida Express, conducted the
flight without completing a required annual proficiency check of his skills.

Khan could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.

Air Florida Express is also known as Air Florida, the FAA said. On Tuesday, Air Florida employees said
the company continues to fly using the planes of a separate company, Aero Leasing, but declined to
elaborate.

FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said she didn't know the relationship between Air Florida Express
and Aero Leasing, but noted, "As stated in our emergency revocation order, Air Florida Express should
not be flying."

Air Florida Express appealed to the National Transportation Safety Board, which will hear the company's
case next month.

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Air Sunshine may be barred from Bahamas flights

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Earlier article posted July 192003

Whether Air Sunshine will be allowed to continue flying to the Bahamas hung in the balance on Monday
night, as government officials there weighed the company's appeal to allow flights to resume.

Bahamian officials had notified Air Sunshine that it would have to cease flights to the island nation as of
noon Monday, after a plane crash near Treasure Cay on July 13 that killed two.

On Monday, company officials pleaded with the Bahamian Ministry of Transport Aviation to lift the

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, DC

In the Matter of: AIR FLORIDA EXPRESS, INC.

FAA Order No. 2002-9

Docket No. CPOOSO0004

DMS No. FAA-2000-7260^

Served: April 16, 2002

ORDER DENYING APPEAL[2]

Air Florida Express has appealed from Administrative Law Judge Burton S. Kolko's order
assessing a $7,500 civil penalty, dated November 1, 2000, against Respondent Air Florida Express, Inc.

(attached). The ALJ based the order assessing civil penalty upon Air Florida Express's failure to file an
answer, which he construed both as a constructive withdrawal of the earlier-filed request for hearing and

as an admission of the allegations set forth in the complaint. The ALJ explained that in either case, there

was no need to hold a hearing. Air Florida Express's appeal is denied.

On March 23, 2000, the agency attorney sent Air Florida Express a Final Notice of Proposed

Civil Penalty, informing it that the FAA proposed to assess a $7,500 civil penalty. Air Florida Express

then sent a written request for a hearing to the agency attorney. The agency attorney filed the complaint

on April 11, 2000, in accordance with 14 C.F.R. § 13.208(a).^ Under 14 C.F.R. § 13.209(a) and
[4]
13.21 l(e). Air Florida Express had 35 days or until May 16, 2000, to file its answer. Air Florida
Express, however, did not file its answer until November 15, 2000.

Section 13.209(f) provides that "a person's failure to file an answer without good cause shall be

deemed an admission of the truth of each allegation contained in the complaint." 14 C.F.R. § 13.209(f).
The Administrator has held that a late-filed answer will only be excused if good cause is shown for the

delay in filing. E.g., In the Matter of Stevenson. FAA Order No. 2000-29 (December 29, 2000).

Air Florida Express's attorney argues as follows on appeal:

AIR FLORIDA was initially represented by its President, Pervez Khan. The undersigned
interviewed Mr. Khan who advised that he had received no response to the initial request for
hearing served on March 30, 2000, and was therefore unaware of his need to file a response to
the Administrator's Complaint.

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Issued by the Department of Transportation

on the 2nd day of January, 2004

Application of Served: January 5, 2004

AIR FLORIDA EXPRESS, INC. Docket OST-01 -9214

d/b/a AIR FLORIDA

for authority to conduct scheduled passenger

operations as a commuter air carrier under
49 U.S.C. 41738

ORDER DISMISSING APPLICATION

On March 20, 2001, Air Florida Express, Inc. d/b/a Air Florida (Air Florida), an air taxi
operator based in Ft. Lauderdale, filed an application in Docket OST-01-9214 for authority
to provide interstate scheduled passenger operations as a commuter air carrier under 49
U.S.C. section 41738. Air Florida proposed to provide daily scheduled flights between Ft.
Lauderdale and Marathon, Florida.

Air Florida accompanied its application with the fitness information required by section
204.3 of our regulations. The carrier filed information supplementing its application on
several occasions.

During the course of our review of Air Florida's application, we learned from the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) that, on August 10, 2001, the Miami Flight Standards
District Office had initiated enforcement action against Air Florida and sent the carrier a
Letter of Investigation alleging various violations of the Federal Aviation Regulations in
connection with an accident that occurred in Punta Gordo, Florida, on February 14, 2001.
At the same time, the FAA initiated two enforcement cases against Mr. Pervez Khan and
Mr. Hanif Butt, key persons with Air Florida.1 Mr. Khan was the pilot and Mr. Butt was
co-pilot at the time of the accident. Each case alleges numerous violations of Parts 119
and 135.

Because of the seriousness of the allegations raised by the FAA in these enforcement
cases, we advised Air Florida that, since one of the areas we review in determining an
applicant's fitness to hold commuter authority is its and its key personnel's disposition to
comply with applicable laws, the outcome of the enforcement cases would have a definite

1 Mr. Khan served as a consultant for Air Florida and was the husband of Saulat Khan, Air Florida's owner
and President. Mr. Butt served as Air Florida's Chief Pilot.
The commission holds its 12th and final public hearing next week. It will focus on the Sept. 11 plot
and the national emergency response.

Democratic commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste said members remain hopeful they can produce a
unanimous report, although some are holding out the option of inserting editorial notes if
commissioners disagree on certain points or want to flag a particular individual as blameworthy.

"The failure to thwart the 9/11 catastrophe was in part the result of the failure to communicate
both internally and externally about information collected by our intelligence agencies," he said.
"Had there been effective use of the information, the possibility exists the 9/11 plot could have
been disrupted."

2. TIA now verifies flight of Saudis

JEAN HELLER
The St. Petersburg Times

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.

But now, at the request of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, TIA officials have
confirmed that the flight did take place and have supplied details.

The odyssey of the small LearJet 35 is part of a larger controversy over the hasty exodus from
the United States in the days immediately after 9/11 of members of the Saudi royal family and
relatives of Osama bin Laden.

The terrorism panel, better known as the 9/11 Commission, said in April that it knew of six
chartered flights with 142 people aboard, mostly Saudis, that left the United States between Sept.
14 and 24, 2001. But it has said nothing about the Tampa flight.

The commission's general counsel, Daniel Marcus, asked TIA in a letter dated May 25 for any
information about "a chartered flight with six people, including a Saudi prince, that flew from
Tampa, Florida on or about Sept. 13, 2001." He asked for the information no later than June 8.

TIA officials said they sent their reply on Monday.

The airport used aircraft tracking equipment normally assigned to a noise abatement program to
determine the identity of all aircraft entering TIA airspace on Sept. 13, and found four records for
the LearJet 35.

The plane first entered the airspace from the south, possibly from the Fort Lauderdale area,
sometime after 3 p.m. and landed for the first time at 3:34 p.m. It took off at 4:37 p.m., headed
north. It returned to Tampa at 8:23 p.m. and took off again at 8:48 p.m., headed south.

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grounded by government order. If that's true, why? And did the president allow it?

Craig Unger is joining us live from New York.

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people can argue about how much terrorism should have been on the president's radar screen befon
immediately afterwards, it appears that the White House authorized the departure of I found a total ol
stopping in 12 American cities, taking 140 passengers, most of them Saudis, many members of the n
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The Bush administration has refused to answer repeated requests

from the Sept. 11 commission about who authorized flights of
Saudi Arabian citizens, including members of Osama bin Laden's
family, from the United States immediately after the attacks of
2001.

Former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), vice chairman of the

independent, bipartisan commission, disclosed the
administration's refusal to answer questions on the sensitive
subject during a recent closed-door meeting with a group of
Democratic senators, according to several Democratic sources.

However, former Navy Secretary John Lehman, a Republican

appointee who also attended the meeting, said in an e-mail to The
Hill that he told the senators the White House has been fully
cooperative.

Democrats suspect President Bush, who met privately with the

Saudi Arabian ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul
Aziz, on the morning of Sept. 13, 2001, may have personally
authorized the controversial flights, several of which took place
when all other U.S. commercial air travel had been halted.

The White House communications office did not immediately

respond to a request for comment.

If Bush or members of his inner circle are shown to have approved

the flight of the prominent Saudi Arabian citizens, it could be
damaging to Bush, who has staked his re-election campaign in
large measure to his carefully built image as the steady leader of
the war against terrorism.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said she asked Hamilton and

Lehman if they were able to find out who in the administration
authorized the Saudi Arabian flights. "Who did this? Why would
the Saudis want to get out of the country? They said [those
questions have] been part of their inquiry and they haven't
received satisfactory answers yet and they were pushing," Boxer
said.

Another Democrat in the meeting who confirmed Boxer's account

reported that Hamilton said, "We don't know who authorized it.
We've asked that question 50 times."

Boxer said she obtained a commitment from Hamilton that the

commission will state in its final report if the White House refused
to answer questions about who authorized the Saudi flights after
the 2001 attacks.

Hamilton, who was traveling to New York for commission

hearings scheduled for today and tomorrow, could not be reached
for comment.

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On April 25, 2004 His Royal Highness Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulazi
Press" hosted by Tim Russert. Prince Bandar followed Bob Woodward, aut
which chronicled the Bush Administration's preparations for the invasion of I
questions about the book's revelation that Prince Bandar was briefed on
allegations about crude oil prices. The interview moved on to cover a wi
developments in the US-Saudi relationship. The transcript that follows, prep
provided as an item of interest and includes links to statements, reports, artic
that were discussed during the "Meet the Press" interview.

Prince Bandar was appointed Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

America by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulazi:
27, 1983. He is currently Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in the United States,
was promoted to the rank of Minister.

Tim Russert: Prince Bandar, welcome to "Meet the Press."

Prince Bandar: Thank you.

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Fund-raising for a new public-safety museum on the first floor of the Lexington
History Museum will begin Sunday at the second annual Tribute to Lexington's
Heroes memorial service and concert.

The new museum is a way of paying tribute to police, firefighters and corrections
personnel, said Becky Estep, an aide to the mayor. Estep, who is responsible for
special events, plans to showcase the history behind the public safety division,
displaying such things as uniforms and pictures.

"The museum will be strictly volunteer-driven," Estep said. "We're not using any
money to staff or pay for janitorial services."

The public-safety museum, which was proposed to the mayor's office by police
Capt. Mark Barnard, would be a first for Kentucky.

"It's a great idea," police Sgt. Rick Curtis said. "It's just going to be a lot of
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Estep said plans are still in the early stages. "The biggest problem is we are
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rooms were originally renovated for the Downtown Development Authority, but it
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"We will cooperate with them," said Ed Houlihan, executive director of the
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The museum has potential sponsors, Estep said, but she said she could not
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this year.

The nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd was bom on November 17, 1958.
After studying in both the military and the University of California at Irvine he
went into business, eventually becoming chairman of Saudi Arabia's Research
and Marketing Group, a publishing company with offices in Riyadh and Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia, and also in London, England.

With his college friend Richard Mulhall as trainer, he got into the racing
business initially as Universal Stable. In 1994 when the operation resurfaced as
The Thoroughbred Corporation, with Mulhall retiring as a trainer and taking on
the job of racing manager. Mulhall is currently the president of the operation.

The pair would go on to racing greatness,

both with sales purchases and homebreds.
The Thoroughbred Corp.'s roster reads like a
who's who of racing in the past decade, with
such greats as Sharp Cat, Lear Fan, Jewel
Princess, Windsharp, Military, Royal
Anthem, Anees, Officer, Habibti, Spain, 2001
Horse of the Year Point Given, and this year's
dual classic winner War Emblem. The Prince
also had success in Europe, starting with his
very first horse, Hays, who won the Mill Reef
Prince Ahmed celebrates War Emblem's Stakes and Oath who won the Epsom Derby.
win in the Preakness Currently Thoroughbred Corp. has
approximately 60 horses in training mostly stabled with Bob Baffert, D. Wayne
Lukas, and John Shireffs, along with 45 broodmares, mostly at Mill Ridge Farm
in Lexington.
FREE
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the academy, and politics, because they share this distrust of

U.S. power, especially during a Republican administration.

These dubious arguments hold general sway in the public

debate, while developments that would tend to support U.S.
policy tend to be overlooked. Little attention has been paid to
the evidence, outlined by Amir Taheri in the New York Post,
that Syria is already responding to the "demonstration effect" of
Iraqi freedom by modest steps toward liberalization and the
ending of the one-party state. But this merely underscores the
need for the U.S. to argue its case better, and to stay the course
in Iraq.

Are there then no valid criticisms of administration policy?

Certainly there are. The "swagger" element in the Bush foreign
policy has been grossly overdone; a firm policy can still be
advanced in soothing diplomatic terms. The vulgar
undifferentiated attacks on "the Europeans" have distorted the
reality of strong support for the U.S. in many European nations
and alienated potential supporters across the Continent. At the
same time, the failure to develop a serious long-term policy that
would prevent France and Germany from conscripting the
"New Europe" into an anti-American coalition will weaken the
U.S. Nor has the State Department, in its dealings with the
U.N., employed public diplomacy to explain why the U.S., as a
constitutional democratic government rooted in accountability
to the voters, cannot accept the exaggerated claims of
transnational organizations, NGOs, and "soft" international law
to embody the will of the "international community." And so
on.

The U.S. has quietly acquiesced over the years in the

construction of a set of transnational rules, practices, and
organizations that are hostile in principle to an international
system based on nation-states and thus to the U.S. as the single
most important state in that system. It is then unreasonably
surprised when, in a crisis like Iraq, these transnational forces
object to America's pursuing its interests without due deference
to the new structures. In thinking about U.S. policymakers, I am
reminded of a remark about the Hapsburgs, by my old boss on
the Daily Telegraph, Colin Welch: "They always fought in the
last ditch. Never in the first."

• AT WAR II

The Great Escape (Cont.)

How did assorted bin Ladens get out of America after
September 11?

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BYRON YORK

Last year, on the first anniversary of September 11, there were

serious, unanswered questions about the Bush administration's
decision to allow members of the bin Laden family living in the
United States to leave the country in the days after the terrorist
attacks. Now, on the second anniversary of September 11, there
are still serious, unanswered questions. But ever so slowly, new
information is emerging.

The basic story has been known for quite a while. Not long
after the attacks, the Saudi government, saying it feared
retribution against Saudi citizens, worked with the bin Laden
family to gather up more than 100 family members and other
prominent Saudis for a flight to Jeddah. A chartered jet made
pickups in Los Angeles, Orlando, and Washington, D.C., before
making a final stop at Boston's Logan Airport, from which it
departed for Saudi Arabia.

But the Saudis required permission to leave the country, and it

has never been clear who in the U.S. government gave it to
them. In interviews with National Review last year (see "The
Great Escape," Sept. 30, 2002), a State Department source said
Foggy Bottom "played no role" in the matter; an FBI
spokesman said the Bureau did not have the authority to make
that decision; and the White House declined to answer
questions. Recently, however, Richard Clarke, the former head
of anti-terrorism at the National Security Council, gave some
answers while testifying before the Senate Judiciary
Committee's subcommittee on terrorism. "I do recall the State
Department coming to us that week [after September 11],"
Clarke testified,

saying that the Saudi Embassy felt that in the wake of the
terrorist attacks, Arabs in this country, particularly Saudis,
might be victims of retribution attacks, and they wanted
therefore to take some Saudi students and the Saudi citizens
back to their kingdom for safety, and could they be given
permission to fly, even though we had grounded all flights.
Now, what I recall is that I asked for flight manifests of
everyone on board and all of those names need to be directly
and individually vetted by the FBI before they were allowed
to leave the country. And I also wanted the FBI to sign off
even on the concept of Saudis being allowed to leave the
country. And as I recall, all of that was done. It is true that
members of the bin Laden family were among those who left.
We knew that at the time. I can't say much more in open
session, but it was a conscious decision with complete review
at the highest levels of the State Department and the FBI and
the White House.

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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER?

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AS IF IT'S NEW NEWS! BUT KATHY STEELE OF THE TAMPA TRIBUNE
REPORTED IT LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER 9/11!

Phantom Flight From Florida

CHECK OUT TODAY'S by Kathy Steele
STORY BY TIM The Tampa Tribune
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TAMPA - The twin-engine Lear jet streaked into the afternoon sky.
leaving Tampa behind but revealing a glimpse of international intri,
the aftermath of terrorist attacks on America.

The federal government says the flight never took place.

But the two armed bodyguards hired to chaperon their clients out o]
state recall the 100-minute trip Sept. 13 quite vividly.

In the end, the son of a Saudi Arabian prince who is the nation's del
minister and the son of a Saudi army commander made it to Kentuc
a waiting 747 and a trip to their homeland.

The hastily arranged flight out of Raytheon Airport Services, a priv

hangar on the outskirts of Tampa International Airport, was anythir
ordinary. It lifted off the tarmac at a time when every private plane
nation was grounded due to safety concerns after the Sept. 11 attacl

Local and federal authorities will say little about the flight.

"It's not in our logs ... it didn't occur," said Chris White, spokesman
Federal Aviation Administration's regional office in Atlanta.

For private investigators Dan Grossi and Manuel Perez, the bodygu
the Lear, it was a trip they can't forget.

A Special Situation Grossi said Tampa police intelligence detective

called him about 11 a.m. Sept. 13, needing help with a special situa
They had been watching three young Saudi men - at least one a stuc
the University of Tampa - at their south Tampa apartment, and the 1
scared and wanted to go home.

Jim Harf, director of UT's international programs, confirmed one ol

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Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz is being sued by families of the 9-11
victims for personally approving millions of dollars of Saudi government funding for
terrorist front groups. Amazingly, bin Abdul Aziz arranged for his son to be flown from
Florida to Kentucky on 9-13 - a flight the Bush administration denies ever happened, on
the second day when ALL civilian flights in the US were prohibited. To make matters
worse, bin Abdul Aziz and his Saudi co-defendants hired James Baker's law firm to
defend him against the TRILLION dollar 9-11 lawsuit. Could this trial expose the deep
Saudi connections to Al Qaeda, and the Bush connections to both? Is a Special
Prosecutor needed? Is it even possible to investigate the Bush-Saudi-AI Qaeda ties? Stay
tuned...

The Secret Saudi Flight on 9-13 Could be the Key to the Bush-
Saudi-AI Qaeda Connection
By Catherine Arnie

About a month after the September llth attacks, I read an article in the Tampa Tribune by Kathy
Steele entitled "Phantom Flight From Florida." The intriguing report told the tale of a flight out of
Florida that allegedly took place on September 13 - a day when ALL civilian air traffic in the United
States was grounded.

"This was out of a Tom Clancy movie," according to a retired homicide detective who was hired for
the flight. Its mission was to spirit the son of a Saudi prince, the son of a Saudi army commander,
and another unidentified Saudi from Florida to Kentucky, because "there was a perceived threat,
and the family of the person wanted him home right away."

The "person" in danger was the son of Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, who is no minor figure in the
Saudi Royal family. Rather, Prince Sultan is the kingdom's minister of defense, the third-ranking
position in the Saudi Government, whose powers exceed those of even America's super-powerful
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Dan Grossi and Manuel Perez were the two Floridians who were hired to serve as private
bodyguards on the flight.

According to the article in the Tampa Tribune, Dan Grossi is a retired Tampa cop who worked in
internal affairs and homicide. Perez is a retired FBI man whose experience was in counter-terrorism
and bomb-making. Perez now runs a detective agency and the two men provided security for the
National Football League at Raymond James Stadium in September of 2001.

The article reported that shortly after the September 11 attack, Lexington police Lt. Mark Barnard
received a request from a prominent Saudi Kingdom official for the protection of three young Saudi
men in Florida, at least one of whom - Prince Sultan's son - had been studying English at the
University of Tampa for three weeks. (Tampa police records listed Sultan Bin Fahad as the
individual who specifically requested protection for the three men. That is probably Prince Sultan
Bin Fahad, head of the Saudi General Presidency of Youth Welfare. In family-run Saudi Arabia,
there is apparently a whole Ministry devoted to keeping Royal youth out of trouble - something the
Bush family elders no doubt dream of copying.)

Apparently Barnard then contacted the Tampa police department and two "off-duty" Tampa

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President Bush and his father have had with the Saudi royal family,
the House of Saud. I have traced more than $1.4 billion in Exclusive Excerpts
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at the Whitewater hearings.

"Six Degrees of Richard Ben-Veniste"

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At the same time Wally Milliard's Venice flight school was training dozens of terrorists
fly—including both pilots crashing into the World Trade Center— the owner of Huffmar
Aviation in Venice Florida was also involved in a murky aviation transaction with a mu
millionaire Texas oil-man who played a prominent role in the Whitewater Scandal.

Truman Arnold, chief fund-raiser for the Democratic Party in 1995 when the scandal b
was investigated for a variety of dubious money-raising schemes ranging from renting
the White House's Lincoln Bedroom to selling tickets on Air Force One. He was also
fingered for procuring cash (read hush money) for convicted Clinton friend Web Hubb(

Arnold, who played golf with Clinton regularly, coordinated payments to Webster Hubt
from businesses controlled by old friends of President Clinton and campaign donors th
included the Lippo Group, organizers of a multibillion-dollar development in China thai
received the endorsement of the Clinton administration.

Now Truman Arnold's name has surfaced in connection with the investigation into the
Venice FL flight schools made infamous by the September 11 terrorist attack.

In a curious aircraft transaction discovered while probing the tangled business affairs <
Wallace J. Hilliard, 70, of Naples, FL, Truman Arnold appears to have 'loaned' Hilliard-
only a dollar—a Beechcraft King Air 200 worth over $2 million.

Moreover, it wasn't until almost a year later that Hilliard finally got around to arrangin
financing to pay for the plane, according to documents obtained from the FAA by the
MadCowMorningNews.

"Being connected means never having to say you're sorry."

On December 10, 2000, Truman Arnold engaged in his act of munificence with Wally
Hilliard, owner of two flight schools which beginning in 1999 induced hundreds of Arat
men to leave their desert kingdoms and come to American shores to learn to fly...

Wally Hilliard's newly-discovered association with a benefactor at the heart of the

American political process raises anew questions about whether the appearance of
Mohamed Atta and his terrorist buddies in Venice, FL. was— as the official story has it
just a matter of mere happenstance.

Wallace Hilliard, it is clear, has ties extending well into the upper reaches of American

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After 9/11: the Saudis Who Slipped Away

When the 9/11 commission resumes its hearings Tuesday, it will be fascinating to see whether it addresses what may be the most
serious security failure related to the attacks: the evacuation of about 140 Saudis almost immediately after 9/11.

Think about it: U.S. intelligence knew that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi. Analysts also knew that Saudi money was a major
force behind Al Qaeda. And, of course, Osama bin Laden, the perpetrator of the worst crime on American soil, was Saudi.

It is standard practice in murder investigations to interview friends and relatives of the primary suspect. One of the highest U.S.
security priorities should have been the interrogation of Bin Laden's relatives and other Saudis who, inadvertently or not, may
have funded him.

"Certainly it would be my expectation that they would do that," says Oliver "Buck" Revell, former associate deputy director of the
FBI. And it should not have been difficult. U.S. airspace was almost entirely locked down. Virtually no one could fly. Nevertheless,
the Saudi Arabian Embassy was able to organize a massive operation to evacuate these citizens from the U.S.

It began with a chartered flight from Tampa, Fla., to Lexington, Ky., on Sept. 13. Soon there were at least eight planes stopping in
12 U.S. cities to fly Saudis out. About two dozen passengers were related to Bin Laden. Because of the lockdown, the initial flight
required authorization from the highest levels of government — and specifically from the White House. Former counterterrorism
czar Richard Clarke said he was a party to such conversations in the White House.

Except for Clarke's brief testimony before the 9/11 commission, however, the issue has received scant attention. The FBI has said
"unequivocally" that it played no role in facilitating any flights. Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the White House claim
the Sept. 13 flight did not take place.

But it did — as did the subsequent flights. How do I know? For my book, I interviewed two men, Dan Grossi and Manuel Perez,
who were on the plane that took off from Tampa as security guards. I spoke with FBI agents who identified Saudi passengers
boarding the flights but said they did not have lengthy interviews with them. I talked to sources who helped orchestrate the
operation. And I obtained passenger lists for four of the flights. (The documents can be seen at http://www.houseofbush.com .)

Out of several dozen passengers on those lists, the most astonishing name was that of the late Prince Ahmed Salman. Best known
as the owner of War Emblem, winner of the 2002 Kentucky Derby, Ahmed was a prominent Saudi prince, but his presence is of
interest for another reason.

As reported in Gerald Posner's "Why America Slept," Salman allegedly had ties to Al Qaeda and even had advance knowledge that
it would stage a major attack in the U.S. on 9/11. Posner's report is based on sources who were in a position to know details of the
CIA's interrogation of Abu Zubeida, a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative captured in Pakistan in 2002. Not long after Zubeida's
startling allegations about him, Salman died of a heart attack at age 43.

That leaves the questions of why the FBI did not appear to be interested in Salman or the Bin Laden relatives or the others on the
flight, and why the White House went to such great lengths to expedite the departure of a potential treasure trove of intelligence.
The 9/11 commission should ask FBI Director Robert Mueller and Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft why such a man was allowed to leave
the country immediately after the attacks. Did the president play a role in authorizing the evacuation himself?

The Bush family has a long, close relationship with the House of Saud. I have traced at least $1.4 billion in investments and
contracts over the last 20 years from Saudis to companies in which the Bushes and their allies have had prominent positions —
among them, Harken Energy, Halliburton and the Carlyle Group. Did these relationships persuade the Bush White House to turn a
blind eye to the Saudi role in terror? At a time when millions of Americans were numb with terror, was the Bush administration
delivering favors to its Saudi friends?

If the commission addresses these questions, it will probably be accused by Republicans of politicizing this historic investigation —
in an election year, no less. But if it does not, it risks a far worse fate: betraying the thousands of people who lost their lives that
day.

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Did Magic Dutch Boy's Boss Slip Saudis out of Raytheon?

by Daniel Hopsicker

December 26-Venice, Florida.

Everything you need to know about the corruption of America that left this country defenseless on Septerr
be gleaned today from stories coming out of Jeb Bush's Florida, the hub of the plot. There the climate of ir
created by the commodities being traded so casually in that state's over-active black market allowed 19 A
desert kingdoms to wander about with the ease of Jimmy Buffet fans after a concert, looking for a bar ser\.

Let's begin with a story in the Tampa Tribune of a twin-engine Lear jet, which took off two days after the S
attack, at a time when every other private plane in the nation was grounded due to safety concerns.

"The Phantom Flight from Florida"

Because the federal government says the flight never took place, the paper headlined it the "Phantom Flic
Florida." It carried a Saudi Arabian prince, the son of that nation's defense minister, as well as the son of?
commander, and it flew from Tampa to Lexington, Kentucky, where Saudi princes had been purchasing ra
Bluegrass Country.

From there, they flew a private 747 out of the country. But if no one in the government would acknowledge
happened, the two armed bodyguards hired to get their clients out of the state were only too happy to recj
remembered vividly.

The Trib's reporter said the story revealed "a glimpse of international intrigue in the aftermath of terrorist a
America."

It also offers a glimpse of the privilege accorded these foreign Saudi nationals that was denied American <

"Everyone's got deals with the Saudi's," protested a Special Forces Commander at McDill AFB, where the
was run, when asked about the trip. "Why point a finger at this one incident?"

Because, we told him, we suspected that the initial pilot training of Bin Laden's Air Force at the tiny Venice

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Author: Daniel Hopsicker U.S. Warns Of Al Qaeda
Post Date: 2004-05-03 12:41:53 by honway Threat This Summer
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May 3~Venice,FL. by Daniel Hopsicker
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A federal complaint filed April 5 in Ft. Myers, FL. accusing flight commander in Iraq
school owners Wally Milliard and Rudi Dekkers of flying numerous
Report: al-Qaida Ranks
"unauthorized and Unsupervised flights" during April and May of 1999 Swelling Worldwide
makes no mention of the clients on the illegal flights, who, according
to several aviation sources, were Saudi nationals. The unauthorized Kerry 46% Bush 44% - The
flights took place on three separate Lear jets owned by Wally Billiard Rasmussen Reports
of Naples, FL., the self-same 'retired' 71-year old Midwestern Presidential Tracking Poll
insurance executive who bankrolled the flight school attended by both
Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi. America's Black Budget and
the Manipulation of
Mortgage & Financial
Also named in the complaint is "Magic Dutch Boy" Rudi Dekkers, Markets
whose criminal activities, according to court documents filed in his
native Holland, once put him at the center of "a web of intrigue," from Report: TERRORISTS
which he has not since emerged. Planning Summer Attack!

"They were flying for the Saudis," said an aviation executive familiar Hackworth: Voting With
with the operation. "They were ferrying Saudi princes all over the Their Feet
U.S."
AP Interview: Army
sergeant who talked about
The federal complaint reveals that the flights took place during April Abu Ghraib prison
and May of 1999, raising questions of whether the two men had still- disciplined by military
undisclosed ties with Saudi nationals before terrorists began arriving at
their two hastily-purchased flight schools. Spanky the clown arrested
on porn charges
Saudi Princes "not germane" to 9/11, Say Feds
AP: Terrorists may strike
U.S. this summer
"All their getting is a slap on the wrist," said the aviation executive
dismissively. "But you can go to jail for the kind of things they're New intelligence suggests
charged with. What they were doing is blatantly illegal. Without a terror operatives in U.S. for
Federal Aviation Administration air carrier operating certificate, the major attack
Government has no idea where those planes went, or even who was on
board. Whoever they were flying for didn't want anyone to know." C.I.A. Bid to Keep Some
Detainees Off Abu Ghraib
Roll Worries Officials
Of course at this late date any move by the FAA to curb the suspicious (WHO WAS "JAMES
aviation activities of financier Hilliard and "Magic Dutch Boy" BOND. SOS. AGENT IN
Dekkers raises the question: "Why start now?" CHARGE"AT ABU

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