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Four Americans flew with "Air Bin Laden" flight transporting Bin Laden family members to Saudi Arabia and Europe nine days after 911. |
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from The Wayne Madsen Report
Entered into the database on Monday, August 22nd, 2005 @ 15:43:58 MST |
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The post-911 domestic flights of Bin Laden family members out of the United States
with the sanction of the Bush White House were not the only instances where Americans
have flown with the family that spawned "Al Qaeda" leader Osama Bin
Laden. WMR has obtained a passenger list from a September 20, 2001 Aero Services
private charter flight from Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, to Geneva, and
on to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (King Abdulaziz International Airport-OEJN). On the
list are a number of Bin Ladens, as well as four Americans, including a Los Angeles
Police Department officer named Jason Blum who flew to Le Bourget from Los Angeles.
A previous list provided to Sen. Frank Lautenberg showed Mr. Blum departing from
the Bin Laden party in Boston.The newly obtained list shows he accompanied the
Bin Ladens to Paris Le Bourget. The other three Americans on the passenger list
are J.P. Buonono, Joseph Allen Wyka and Ricardo V. Pascetta. Because of these
discrepancies, it is uncertain whether the destination information as stated on
the manifest provided to Sen. Lautenberg (and presumably the 911 Commission) was,
in fact, accurate. In addition, two Bin Ladens with U.S. citizenship were also
on the charter flight: Khalil Sultan Binladen and Badr Ahmed Bin Laden. A British
citizen, Akberali [sic] Moawalla [sic], identified by French intelligence as the
same Akbar Moawala (the Tanzanian in the French intelligence report below regarding
SICO and Fluor Corp.), was also on the flight. A Brazilian, Yemeni, and Indonesian
were on the same flight. A Saudi diplomatic passport holder named Kholoud Osama
Kurdi accompanied the passengers to Jeddah. What is significant about Mr. Kurdi
is that the Bush administration claimed the Saudi flights were purely "private"
in nature. Shafig Bin Laden, who had attended a Washington, DC meeting of the
Carlyle Group at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on the morning of September 11 (George
H. W. Bush and James Baker were present at the same meeting the day before), left
the charter flight in Geneva, one of the centers for George H. W. Bush's international
slush funds. The parties arriving at Le Bourget for the onward flight to Geneva
and Jeddah flew from Los Angeles International, Dulles International, Boston Logan,
and Orlando International. Click
here for the Lautenberg list. |