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03/11/2004 Archived Entry: "Saudi evacuation, post-9/11"
Saudi Evacuation, post-9/11
Salon seems to be stepping into their new role as an investigative news source with confidence and purpose with the first installment of 'House of Bush, House of Saud.' Finally, someone reports on the evacuation of Saudis in the days after 9/11.
According to the same source, a young female member of the bin Laden family was the sole passenger on the first leg of the flight, from Los Angeles to Orlando. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, boarding any airplane was cause for anxiety. But now that the name Osama bin Laden had become synonymous with mass murder, boarding a plane with his family members was another story entirely. To avoid unnecessary dramas, the flight's operators made certain that the cockpit crew was briefed about who the passengers were -- the bin Ladens -- and the highly sensitive nature of their mission.However, they neglected to brief the flight attendants.
On the flight from Los Angeles, the bin Laden girl began talking to an attendant about the horrid events of 9/11. "I feel so bad about it," she said.
"Well, it's not your fault," replied the attendant, who had no idea who the passenger really was.
"Yeah," said the passenger. "But he was my brother."
"The flight attendant just lost it," the source said.
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Took long enough! Michael Moore talked about it in the first chapter of his book "Dude, Where's My Country?" which came out about 6 or 7 months ago and Rolling Stone ran that chapter shortly after the book came out. This means Salon and the rest of the media got "scooped" by Rolling Stone, an ENTERTAINMENT magazine. Sad, really.
Posted by Tina @ 03/11/2004 10:24 AM NY
Tina, good d*mn point. And we owe Michael Moore for the whole AWOL/TANG thing too. Although the RNC should be given 2 points for a rebound by making a big fuss demanding an apology/denunciation of the remark and thereby making it fair game for the SCLM.
If this goes on I may have to break down and pay for a subscription at Salon just to show support.
Posted by Xan @ 03/11/2004 11:44 AM NY
i remember hearing this story either the day of or the day after 9/11, i dont know how it didnt make an impact, and i dont know where i heard it, if it wasnt in the news. odd... it must have been on NPR or something. thats what we were listening to at work that day (untill everyone at work decided to go home and watch tv instead) i guess only the liberal litterati listen to NPR though, and we dont have any credibility, we just got us too much of that there book lernin...
Posted by justin @ 03/11/2004 11:53 AM NY
