September 17, 2003

Saudi Flight: Yes or No

A couple weeks ago I complained about the reported post 9/11 Saudi escape plane that might have been flying while US airports were locked down.

The final story is not yet in on this but Brendan Nyhan at Spinsanity suggests that the best available evidence indicates that the flight(s) actually did not leave the US until after the airports were open again. However, there still appear to be a few things to clear up:

1) What was the actual departure timeline? There appears to be no solid evidence of dates/times.

2) There may have been an incoming flight and/or a taxi flight (picking up folks) that occurred during the lockdown. What are the details?

3) Why were these folks allowed to leave the country in the first place? Seems like they would have been perfectly good candidates to spend some time in ashcroft's gulag.

The administration needs to take the classified stamp off of information related to this event and tell the full story (with documentation). As I said two weeks ago, hopefully there is no truth to any of this.

Via Hit and Run.

Posted by Steve on September 17, 2003
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