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...indignant that two days after Sept. 11, 2001, the President had a chummy White House visit with Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, from whose country 15 of the 19 hijackers had come; and that in the dire days after 9/11, when U.S. flights were grounded, dozens of Osama bin Laden's relatives were flown out of the country without the FBI being allowed to question them. Much of the material is familiar; the film buttresses its arguments from many TV and print sources, including Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud, and Moore's own best...
...read every word the Saudi had spoken or written. Computers with sophisticated 'link analysis' programs were busy printing out diagrams of bin Laden's loose-knit network, which included thousands of Muslim fighters ... In early 1996, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA also began making plans to 'snatch' Osama from a foreign country ... [It] launched a secret program to harass his network ... The CIA would spot bin Laden operatives in foreign countries, then quietly enlist the local security service to arrest or deport them and allow the agency to sift through materials left in their apartments. In many cases...
...will receive nothing from us but coffin after coffin." Masked militant, said by the cia to be Osama bin Laden associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in a videotape showing the beheading of American Nicholas Berg in Iraq...
Your article "Did Clinton Do Enough?" [April 26] described what Bill Clinton's Administration did to stop Osama bin Laden. The Republican Party would have vilified any action Clinton took that ended in the death of bin Laden. The Republicans would have jumped on Clinton's acts as proof that he was engaged in something wrong or illegal. Did Clinton do enough? Who knows? But had the CIA assassinated bin Laden on presidential orders, Clinton would have been roasted. CAROLE SHUMWAY Seattle...
...Miramax camp scoffs at that claim, pointing out that Disney's radio arm has no compunction about distributing fire-breathing conservative Sean Hannity's show. The film has been described as an incendiary attack on the Bush family's ties to Saudi Arabian oil money and the Osama bin Laden clan. But a source who has seen the picture tells TIME that the Bush-Saudi elements make up only about 15 minutes of the roughly 110-minute film...