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From: Tom Eldridge [t.eldridgC

Sent: Sunday, April 1 1 , 2004 5:22 PM
To: Susan Ginsburg
Subject: Re: Manifest Raises Questions About Saudi Flights After 9/1 1

Susan -

Thanks. I think you and Janice covered the ground very well. It is not surprising that the manifest would read one
date, btit the flight took off the next day since the FBI obtained the manifests in advance of the flights taking off.
One further point (that I would have to check the FBI documents to confirm) is that the name al Hazmi set off
alarm bells in the FBI for obvious reasons and specifically because they had that name on their security directive
list created after 9-1 1 of individuals not allowed to fly or depart without FBI clearance. I believe the FBI
documents, state that they did check to see whether there was any connection between the al Hazmi on the flight
and the hijacker, and satisfied themselves there was not.

~ Tom

— Original Message —
From: Susan Ginsburg
To: "
Sent: Sunday, April 11,2004 12:55 PM
Subject: FW: Manifest Raises Questions About Saudi Flights After 9/1 1

Tom,

Welcome back. This shows the full correspondence on Flocco.

Please review.

Thanks.

Susan

----- Original Message —

From: Janice Kephart-Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:50 PM
To: Philip Zelikow
Cc: Susan Ginsburg; Walter Hempel; John Raidt; Christine Healey; Walter Hempel
Subject: RE: Manifest Raises Questions About Saudi Rights After 9/11
Philip,

I just spoke to Susan regarding your email about 45 minutes ago. In an effort to expedite an answer for you,
and because Tom is currently on a flight himself and unreachable, I've cross referenced the Flocco article
against Tom's summary memo on the Saudi flights and the original flight manifests. Walt helped me too.
Here's what I found: >•

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1. Flocco says there were 4 flights. There were actually 6. Flocco's dates for the flights are inaccurate as
well.
2. The date of the Lexington, KY flight was Sept. 16, not 15.
3 Both individuals listed in the Flocco article were on this Lexington flight. There is no evidence that the al
Hazmi listed in the article is in anyway connected to the hijacker Nawaf al Hazmi. (Flocco doesn't

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mention hijacker Salem al Hazmi.)

4. Flocco states in re to the Lexington flight that its passengers "were among a select few to fly on
September 13, two days after the attacks, when all planes over the U.S. air space were grounded." The
air space, according to our own Johnstone, may have re-opened sometime during the day on Sept. 13.
Tom is still trying to nail the time down. Furthermore, this particular flight didn't occur until the space was
definitely open on Sept. 16. In addition, there were only 14 on this flight, but 142 total leaving on the six
flights.
5. Flocco refers to the "phantom flight from Tampa". Apparently, there was no phantom flight. Tom s
footnote on this topic reads as follows:

'There is a report that one chartered flight of Saudis flew from Tampa, Florida to Lexington, Kentucky on
September 13, 2001 at 4:30 p.m. "Phantom Flight from Florida," Tampa Tribune, October 5,2001. The
article relates that a Saudi Prince and his security detail told the Prince's father and his father's security
detail (which included several off-duty Lexington police officers) that he had flown to Kentucky from
Florida on September 13, 2001 in order to board the September 16, 2001 flight that departed the U.S.
from Lexington. However, the FBI found no FAA documentation of any flight from Florida to Lexington
\r to September 14, 2001. Moreover, according to the FBI, Lexington Airport Police Chief of Police
Scott Lanter told the FBI that no planes took off or landed in Lexington until the FAA lifted flight
\. Perhaps most significantly, according to the FBIJ \s that the young Prince told

there because his father had specifically advised him not to drive for fear the son would be in danger of
he did so. RFBI04017295 (Bates 10); RFBI03009447 (Bates 4). We are attempting to get the FBI
interview reports related to this incident. We continue to investigate whether it is possible the Tampa
airport reopened before the Saudi Prince's alleged flight on September 13, 2001, at 4:30 p.m.

6. As to Flocco's assertions about who may have provided the okay for these flights, that's still under
Commission investigation.

Hope that helps.

Janice

Original Message—
From: Susan Ginsburg
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:57 PM
To: Janice Kephart-Roberts
Subject: FW: Manifest Raises Questions About Saudi Flights After 9/11

----- Original Message -----

From: Philip Zelikow
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:54 AM
To: Susan Ginsburg
Subject: RE: Manifest Raises Questions About Saudi Flights After 9/11

Let1 s try to reach him to get his comment, unless you can give it for him.

----- Original Message—

From: Susan Ginsburg
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:08 AM
To: Philip Zelikow
Cc: Joanne Accolla; John Raidt

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Tom has gone on vacation for a week. He is on his way to Palm Beach FL. We could reach
him there later today. Let us know. S

—Original Message—
From: Philip Zelikow
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:51 AM
To: Tom Eldridge
Cc: Team 5; Front Office; Christine Healey
Subject: FW: Manifest Raises Questions About Saudi Flights After 9/11

Tom -

Any comment? The story doesn't seem so convincing on the surface ...

\Z

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List and testimony indicates FBI may have allowed alleged hijacker's kin to
leave U.S. with son of Saudi defense minister without questioning

by Tom Flocco
WASHINGTON - April 4, 2004 - Posted 13:45 ET -- TomFlocco.com -
A copy of a previously unpublished manifest, obtained late Thursday night and dated
September 15,2001, provides evidence of a private Boeing-727 Saudi flight from
Lexington, Kentucky to London. But the names on the manifest raise serious questions
about FBI policies and procedures related to witness identification, criminal
investigations and obstruction of justice.

Ahmad A. M. Alhazmi, 20, (Saudi passport no. B805019) is listed on the manifest with
Prince Sultan bin Fahad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, 19, (Saudi passport no. 406 A), son
of Saudi defense minister Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.

The name Alhazmi and its ties to laundered Riggs Bank cashiers checks may become
a subject of interest when National Security Advisor Condoteezza Rice testifies later
this week-especially since young Ahmad Alhazmi has the same last name as Nawaf
Alhazmi, one of the terrorists identified as an alleged hijacker of American Airlines flight
77. FidLStPry

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Lost Your Job? Haifa's signed checks made out to terrorist associates through his
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uncle's Riggs Bank. 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean
Lost Your Money? negotiated away the important opportunity for personal,
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Rice's public testimony.
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Lost Your Country? host Tim Russert asked him why Bush and Vice-President Cheney were
Quality Of Life testifying together, and why former President Clinton and Vice-
President Gore were not being offered the same opportunity.
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Cooperative Bush and Cheney will not be under oath, allowing joint corroboration
Research of each other's testimony on-the-spot regarding their actions during the
key two hour time-line of the actual attacks—thus avoiding possible
Lost Legal Rights? future perjury charges and/or impeachment proceedings.
A Matter of Justice

Lost a good wage? Favorable testimony deals notwithstanding, internet controversy

Fairus.org continues to rage because the Commission conducts 90 % of its
investigation in secret, failing to hear public testimony from boarding
gate personnel, cleanup and catering crews with less security scrutiny,
air traffic controllers, military pilots in the air on 9/11 and their
ordinance crews, Securities & Exchange commissioners who ordered
the still-secret "control list" of pre-attack insider trades, and Lockheed-
Martin officials who hold the air-traffic system contract-for an
explanation as to whether the integrity and control of the doomed jets
could have been compromised in any manner.

Instead, Americans have been forced to accept the politically

expedient desire to conclude well before November's election-
stampeding the most important investigation since Watergate—to avoid
electoral ramifications at the expense of truth, accountability and
justice.

Relative of alleged hijacker permitted to leave country

without questioning?
During last week's hearing testimony, 9-11 Commissioner Timothy
Roemer asked Richard Clarke, former Bush Administration National
Coordinator for Counterterrorism for the National Security Council
(NSC), "Who gave the final approval for the bin Laden family to leave

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the country without being interviewed?" ^ . .r^A V"^

Clarke answered that it could have been the "Inter-Agency Crisis

Management Group, but most likely it was the White House Chief of
Staffs office or the State Department." [according to this writer's notes /
Commission transcripts for March 23 - 24, 2004 should be available
soon at http://www.9-llcommission.gov/archive/index.htm ]

When Roemer asked "why the Saudis were allowed to leave the
country, who was on the planes, how many, and why the decision was
made," Clarke said the government "feared for their lives...some of
them were bin Laden family members, and the Saudi embassy requested
their evacuation."

During testimony Clarke told Roemer "I refused to approve the [Saudi]
request. I passed it on to [FBI Asst. Director] Dale Watson and the -^-
f%ht was approved....! don't think they were ever interviewed Minis
country." Only transcripts and/or video would negate Clarke's
assertion.

Clarke only mentioned one flight. And it is not known whether the
counter-terrorism chief was kept in the dark about the other flights, as
Roemer did not mention the now-public manifests. The commission^-'
has not revealed publicly whether it knows about Ahmad Alhazmi^alid
Prince Sultan bin Fahad, fueling speculation that an investigation of the
young Alhazmi may have been suppressed by the FBI or commission
executive director Philip Zelikow who controls the inner-workings of
the panel's probe.

Publication of the manifests raises important questipriswhether Kean's

panel ever asked the FBI to produce interview nores or [video tap
indicating that absent Watson's public testimony, the White House will
never have to reveal potential evidence as to the possibility that the
young Alhazmi may be alleged hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi's_brothgr or
cousin- If this is so, more questions arise as to why Alhazmi was
traveling with the son of the Saudi Minister of Defense and px*
what Alhazmi knew about the attacks. ^ »jz^-

Dale Watson, who Clarke intimated aathe sponsorybf the FBI-approved

flights and the decisior^TToTto^ii!e£Vievbin Laden family members and
other Saudi royals or citizens, waslhe former FBI Executive Asst.
Director for Counter-Terrorism and Counter-intelligence.

Watson led controversial investigations of the first World Trade Center

attack, Oklahoma City bombing, East Africa Embassy bombings,
Khobar Towers bombings, USS Cole bombing, the September 11
attacks and the anthrax attacks, before retiring to assume a position with
Booz Allen Hamilton.

The 'non-existent' flight through closed U.S. air space

There are indications that young Ahmad Alhazmi, along with Saudi

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prince Sultan bin Fahad, and one other young man on the Lexington to~~"~?
London evacuation flight, were among a select few to fly on September \, 2001, two days after

were grounded—save a few emergency medical and body-part transplant^ * /

flights, one of which was forced to use a helicopter to comply with the )
flight ban.

Since the Lexington-London manifest lists a total of only four men, of

the same reasonably close age range, there is a 3 out~of 4 possibility that
a man with the same name as one of the alleged hijackers flew with a
Saudi royal from Tampa to Lexington, Kentuck^ver closedJj.S. air
space two days after the attacks.

I The special Saudi flighthas been termed the "phantom flight from
^Florida,.)' since Atlanta Federal Aviation_Administration spokesman'
ud "It's not in our logs./^didn't occur."yBut the Tampa
rribune'Tmultiple sources indicate that very high strings were pulled,
raising more questions about the identities of the young Alhazmi and
Prince.

Private investigator and former Tampa police department homicide and

internal affairs officer/Dan Grossysaid jie was told^that clearance for the
flight came from the White House,. This may confirm Richard Clarke's
recent testimony that "most likely it was the White House Chief of —
Staffs office" who gave the order.

iGrossiJsaidUhe prince's family [Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz]

pulled aravor from former President Bush—the only indication that it
was Bush 41 who first contacted Bush 43 to get the three men out of
Florida. All this, according to the Tampa Tribune.

Tampa University (TU) spokesman George Donaldson refused to offer

details but Grossi's fellow bodyguard for the young men, Manuel Perez;
-2. former 29-vear FBI counter-terrorism official and bomb technician,
.said the men arrived in Tampa three weeks earlier to receive tutoring^i
English_This, according to the Tribune's Kathy Steele—the one who
broke this neglected piece of important evidence, adding that one of the
three men Grossi was contacted to protect was the son of a Saudi army
commander.

Jim Harf, director of TU's international programs, confirmed that one of

the three men was the son of Saudi defense minister Prince Sultan
[Abdullah bin Abdulaziz], and Lexington police Lt. Mark Barnard
confirmed a Saudi relative had asked for help in getting protection for
the men in Tampa. Tampa police records list Sultan bin Fahad [bin
Abdulaziz] as the one requesting the security detail. ~
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Grassland Perez said they saw "several private 747s<|)arkedjbn the
tarmac with foreign flags on the tails and Arabic_letteruig~on the sides,"
helping to confirm the authenticity of the Saudi^]
This, at a time when all U.S. air space wasCfScked-tfown b^ the United
States military under federal orders. """

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The le^je^carrving the three_young men to Lexington. Kentucky took "~

off froma private Raytheor Corpo*^*1'™3 hangar Raytheon is tangled
throughout the events surrounding the attacks, not the least of which is
the strange death of a Saudi test pilot and two Raytheon test pilots
at the Pensacola Naval Air Station.

Interestingly, reporter Dan Hopsicker says the learjet was owned by

multimillionaire businessman Wallace J. Milliard of Naples, Florida,
who Hopsicker says owned Huffman Aviation at the Venice Airport
since its purchase in 1999—just before State Department officials began
to use America's visa program as a tool to allow squadrons of young
Arabs into the U.S. to take flying lessons at Huffman. (Terror Flight
School Owner's Plane Seized for Heroin Trafficking and Spooks and
Saudi's in Florida - http://www.madcowprod.com/ )

"Wally Hilliard owns the only charter Lear service in Southwest

Florida," said a Hopsicker source. "If a Lear was flying that day, it
would have been his," raising even more questions.

Curiously, in July, 2000, one of Hilliard's jets was seized by federal

agents with more than 30 pounds of heroin onboard at the Orlando
Executive Airport. This, at a time when Florida governor Jeb Bush
honored Hilliard's operation—Florida Air, Sunrise Airlines and Discover
Air—with personal visits and posed for photos with what Hopsicker
called the "Discover Air family."

OueslkmSjCan be raisedabout Hilliard's operation, which supported a

special presidential favoTfor a Saudi defense minister's son, a Saudi
army commander's son, and also their friend—who may have been the
relative of an alleged hijacker. Anyone who followed the Afghanistan
war knows that the chief product for export by Osama bin Laden's
terrorist organization was heroin—another source of funds to support
terrorism in America.

Hopsicker said local police collected all the hijacker flight training files
from Hilliard's Huffman Aviation School the day after the attacks--
detailing information that would have confirmed or denied the flight
capabilities of the hijackers and sources of their funding support.

Just five days before the attacks on September 7, Governor Bush signed
executive order No. 01-261, declaring the authority "to order members
of the Florida National Guard into active service...to support law
enforcement and emergency management in the the event of civil
disturbances or natural disasters..."

Curiously, according to one local law enforcement official, "The FBI

took all our files, everything." Then he added, "they loaded two Ryder
trucks right outside that (police station) window, then drove them right
onto a [Florida National Guard] C130 military cargo plane at Sarasota
airport which flew out with [Governor] Jeb Bush aboard."

No one knows where the President's brother went with the FBI officials
and the hijacker flight training evidence, fueling speculation that both

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Congress and the 9-11 Commission are hiding something by refusing to

call the Florida governor to testify publicly about why he activated the
National Guard and what happened to the terrorist's records—documents
that should be considered crucial evidence.

Journalist Catherine Arnie posed some interesting questions that the 9-

11 Commission Shnnlrlftpageing rrtnHnlf;^^ftirftthis TVmrcHay-
How could our governement have authorized a flight out of the coun
beTxjflTthey evenTaiew wHo^lie'jrerpetrators of the attacks were? Wh
cntl the tamilies of the vounglnen "perceive athreat" when it wasn't yet
clear on The 1 3th of September exactly WHO had attacked Amencalor
where they were from? (http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?

Arnie said according to a transcript on the State Department website of

a statement given by a "senior government official," on September 13 at
5:22 pm, it had not yet been announced that Osama bin Laden was
behind the attacks when protection was requested for the three young
men by Bush 41 andJ3ush43.

Hijacked bank
Questions also remain regarding the web of money transfers from
Princess Haifa, Prince Bandar and the daughter of late King Faisal,
some of which reached Nawaf Alhazmi and fellow terrorist Khalid
Almihdar.

Princess Haifa's bank account—the source of the funds which ultimately

supported the alleged hijackers-was with Riggs Bank where Jonathan J.
Bush, the brother of former President George H. W. Bush and uncle of
President George W. Bush, is CEO, President and Director of Riggs'
investment management subsidiary.

Cashiers checks were sent to Majeda Ibrahin Dweikat, who signed them
over to her friend Manal Ahmed Bagader, wife of Omar al-Bayoumi
who met and befriended Alhazmi and Almihdar when they arrived in
the U.S.

After Al Bayoumi fled the U.S. to England in July, 2001—two months

before the attacks, Princess Haifa's Riggs Bank checks were then sent to
Osama Basnan, who with his wife Majeda Dweikat, were both later to
be found in the U.S. illegally as a result of poor or suspicious State
Department visa supervision.

Former FBI linguist Sibel Edmonds said she found evidence of

espionage in both the State Department and the FBI in pre-9/11
translations of intelligence intercepts—which also warned about planes
used as weapons well before the attacks.

A federal law enforcement source said Basnan was a known "al-Qaeda

sympathizer" who "celebrated the heroes of September 11" at a party
after the attacks and openly talked about "what a wonderful, glorious

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day it had been," according to Newsweek.

Al Bayoumi and Basnan both befriended Alhazmi and fellow Saudi

hijacker Khalid Almihdar after they arrived in San Diego, according to
the sources; and the Riggs checks from Prince Bandar's wife helped the
terroists pay rent and living expences in the months just prior to the
attacks, according to reports. Newsweek said Al Bayoumi helped them
obtain social security cards and helped them arrange for flying lessons
in Florida—indicating dramatic evidence of the state of congressional
internal security oversight.

Basnan^was convicted of visa fraud and depnrfer| to SQ1ir)l' Arabia ^*»-

November 17, 2002. His wife Majida Ibrahiin—who had also laundered
checks from Riggs Bank—was deported the same dav to her native^
Jordan for visa violations. (Washington Post, 9-24, 2002) Reasons
were not given why the White House allowed the high profile suspects
to leave the country on charges much less important than being
implicated as an accessory to mass murder.

All this, at a time when the White House was receiving "frantic" threat
warnings about "planes used as weapons" that would "set your hair on
fire," according to Commissioner Jamie Gorelick and other panel
members.

Gorelick is a partner in Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering—the law firm

defending Prince Mohammed al Faisal against 9-11 families in their $1
trillion suit accusing wealthy Saudis of transferring millions to Islamic
charities to finance al Qaeda terrorism in America. 9/11 Commission
chief counsel Daniel Marcus is a former member of the firm, adding an
additional representative of Wilmer-Cutler's interests regarding the
outcome of the panel's investigation.

Friends in high places

Six months before his deportation, Osama Basnan traveled to Houston
to meet a prominent Saudi prince involved in intelligence matters at
the same time that Crown Prince Abdullah came to visit President
George W. Bush at his Crawford, Texas ranch in April, 2002.
according to reports. Questions remain whether Basnan
personally associated with Prince Abdullah or the defense minister's
host, George W. Bush.

The 9-11 Commission has publicly declined to address Saudi links to

terrorist finance. Victim family concerns about major panel conflicts of
interest and credibility issues notwithstanding, a recent uptick in media
reporting and public interest indicates Americans may be wondering
whether the White House is hiding something about its Saudi
relationships.

Houston's Baker & Botts, the family law firm of Bush 41 Secretary of
State James Baker that is defending Saudi Arabia's defense minister,
Crown Prince Abdullah, against the 9-11 families regarding the
financing of terrorism in America, produced "stacks of affidavits and

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copies of canceled checks," admitting that for 16 years Abdullah has

been funding Islamic charity organizations raided after the attacks by
federal agents and anti-terrorism investigators.

9/11 Commission Chairman, current member of the board of directors

and shareholder of Amerada-Hess oil company, Thomas Kean—with
fellow directors and officers, maintained a Caspian Sea basin joint
venture business relationship with terrorism-linked Delta Oil
company for 15 months after the September 11 attacks.
This, before Hess terminated the deal 21 days before President Bush
appointed Kean to his position as chairman of the terrorism
investigation.

Delta Oil is backed financially by Saudi billionaire Khalid bin

Mahfouz, who is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law and a former
financial benefactor of one of President George W. Bush's early oii
company ventures. Washington law firm Ropes & Grey is receiving
the hefty fees for defending Khalid bin Mahfouz—accused of funneling
millions into Islamic charities to support terrorism—against the 9-11
families' suit.

On the advice of White House lawyers, President Bush has refused to

declassify a 28-page section of a congressional report investigating the
September 11 terrorist attacks, citing "national security concerns" and
that it would "reveal sensitive intelligence sources and methods."

According to the Los Angeles Times (8-2-2003), sources familiar with

Bush's classified section of the document, said it describes "very direct,
very specific links" between Saudi officials, two of them San Diego-
based [alleged] hijackers and other potential co-conspirators "that
cannot be passed off as rogue, isolated or coincidental." Another
official said "It's really damning. What it says is that not only Saudi
entities or nationals are implicated in 9-11, but the [Saudi]
government."

Several U.S. officials confirmed that President Bush's classified

sections of the report provide detailed additional allegations about Omar
Al Bayoumi and Osama Basnan, two Saudi men, and their suspicious
activities in the United States, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Importantly, the Commission has not disclosed whether it is hearing

private testimony regarding the money laundering machinations linking
Washington's Riggs Bank to the hijackers-evidence government
sources also say is contained in the 28-pages classified by White House
lawyers.

Given the implications of the evidence in its totality, any judicial,

legislative or investigative forum in the United States could be hard-
pressed to disclose thus far hidden U.S. connections to Saudi-linked
terrorism—especially credible evidence of financial facilitation of
terrorism within U.S. borders. Hence the current state of congressional
oversight.

That is, unless America's legal or legislative branches wish to strain to

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Besides the Alhazmi list, three other manifests confirm a total of Jour
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16i/2/ and 24, 2001, after the World Trade Center and Pentagon

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the country without being interviewed?"

Clarke answered that it could have been the "Inter-Agency Crisis

Management Group, but most likely it was the White House Chief of
Staffs office or the State Department." [according to this writer's notes /
Commission transcripts for March 23 - 24, 2004 should be available
soon at http://www.9-llcommission.gov/archive/index.htm ]

When Roemer asked "why the Saudis were allowed to leave the
country, who was on the planes, how many, and why the decision was
made," Clarke said the government "feared for their lives...some of
them were bin Laden family members, and the Saudi embassy requested
their evacuation."

During testimony Clarke told Roemer "I refused to approve the [Saudi]
request. I passed it on to [FBI Asst. Director] Dale Watson and the
flight was approved....! don't think they were ever interviewed in this
country." Only transcripts and/or video would negate Clarke's
assertion.

Clarke only mentioned one flight. And it is not known whether the
counter-terrorism chief was kept in the dark about the other flights, as
Roemer did not mention the now-public manifests. The commission
has not revealed publicly whether it knows about Ahmad Alhazmi and
Prince Sultan bin Fahad, fueling speculation that an investigation of the
young Alhazmi may have been suppressed by the FBI or commission
executive director Philip Zelikow who controls the inner-workings of
the panel's probe.

Publication of the manifests raises important questions whether Kean's

panel ever asked the FBI to produce interview notes or video tape,
indicating that absent Watson's public testimony, the White House will
never have to reveal potential evidence as to the possibility that the
young Alhazmi may be alleged hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi's brother or
cousin. If this is so, more questions arise as to why Alhaymi was_
traveling with the son of the Saudi Minister of Defense and
what Alhazmi knew about the attacks.

Dale Watson, who Clarke intimated as the sponsor of the FBI-approved

flights and the decision not to interview bin Laden family members and
other Saudi royals or citizens, was the former FBI Executive Asst.
Director for Counter-Terrorism and Counter-intelligence.

Watson led controversial investigations of the first World Trade Center

attack, Oklahoma City bombing, East Africa Embassy bombings,
Khobar Towers bombings, USS Cole bombing, the September 11
attacks and the anthrax attacks, before retiring to assume a position with
Booz Allen Hamilton.

The 'non-existent' flight through closed U.S. air space

There are indications that young Ahmad Alhazmi, along with Saudi

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prince Sultan bin Fahad, and one other young man on the Lexington to
London evacuation flight, were^arnnri^a^select few tn flyjjn^September M(
13, 2001. two davs-after the attacks, when all planes over U.S. air space
were grounded—save a few emergency medical and body-part transplant
flights, one of which was forced to use a helicopter to comply with the
flight ban.

Since the Lexington-London manifest lists a total of only four men of

the same reasonably close age range, there is a 3 out of 4 possibility that
a man with the same name as one of the alleged hijackers flew with a
Saudi royal from Tampa to Lexington, Kentucky over closed U.S. air
space two days after the attacks.

The special Saudi flight has been termed the "phantom flight from
Florida," since Atlanta Federal Aviation Administration spokesman
Chris White said "It's not in our logs...it didn't occur." But the Tampa
Tribune's multiple sources indicate that very high strings were pulled, .
raising more questions about the identities of the young Alhazmi and "
Prince.

LPrivate investi gator \r\d former Tampa police department homicide and
internal affairs officer Dan Grossi said he was told that clearance for the
flight came from the White House. This may confirm Richard Clarke's
recent testimony that "most likely it was the White House Chief of
Staffs office" who gave the order.

Grossi said the prince's family [Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz]
pulled a favor from former President Bush—the only indication that it
was Bush 41 who first contacted Bush 43 to get the three men out of
Florida. All this, according to the Tampa Tribune.

Tampa University (TU) spokesman George Donaldson refused to offer

details but Grossi's fellow bodyguard for the young menj^Manuel Perez- |
-a former 29-year FBI counter-terrorism official and bom^e^hmcianT'
said the men arrived in Tampa three weeks earlier to receive tutoring in
English. This, according to the Tribune's Kathy Steele—the one who
broke this neglected piece of important evidence, adding that one of the
three men Grossi was contacted to protect was the son of a Saudi army
commander.

Jim Harf, director of TU's international programs, confirmed that one of

the three men was the son of Saudi defense minister Prince Sultan
[Abdullah bin Abdulaziz], and Lexington police Lt. Mark Barnard
confirmed a Saudi relative had asked for help in getting protection for
the men in Tampa. Tampa police records list Sultan bin Fahad [bin
Abdulaziz] as the one requesting the security detail.

Grossi and Perez said they saw "several private 747s parked on the
tarmac with foreign flags on the tails and Arabic lettering on the sides,"
helping to confirm the authenticity of the Saudi embassy manifests.
This, at a time when all U.S. air space was locked down by the United
States military under federal orders.

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