tom_thinks

Who's the wild conspiracy nut now? Huh? The administration has denied it, the FBI has denied it, conspiracy nuts everywhere swore by it, and now Tampa International Airport is finally admitting it;

Tampabay: TIA now verifies flight of Saudis: "TAMPA - Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, a small jet landed at Tampa International Airport, picked up three young Saudi men and left.
The men, one of them thought to be a member of the Saudi royal family, were accompanied by a former FBI agent and a former Tampa police officer on the flight to Lexington, Ky.
The Saudis then took another flight out of the country. The two ex-officers returned to TIA a few hours later on the same plane.
For nearly three years, White House, aviation and law enforcement officials have insisted the flight never took place and have denied published reports and widespread Internet speculation about its purpose.

Hmmm. Let's add a bit to that 'internet speculation'. Why would the U.S. Government allow Saudi nationals leave the country on private flights after several Saudi's were beleived to have blown up the World Trade Center? Well I've got plenty of theories(I dare not share them all, less I find myself in a hood squatting for days on end in Guantanamo). Could it be that Bush and his famliy have been deeply involved with the Saudi royalty for some time? Perhaps Craig Unger's book House of Bush House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties. has some answers

As Unger claims in this incisive study, the seeds for the "Age of Terrorism" and September 11 were planted nearly 30 years ago in what, at the time, appeared to be savvy business transactions that subsequently translated into political currency and the union between the Saudi royal family and the extended political family of George H. W. Bush. On the surface, the claim may appear to be politically driven, but as Unger (a respected investigative journalist and editor) probes--with scores of documents and sources--the political tenor of the U.S. over the last 30 years, the Iran-Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, the birth of Al Qaeda, the dubious connection between members of the Saudi Royal family and the exportation of terror, and the personal fortunes amassed by the Bush family from companies such as Harken Energy and the Carlyle Group, he exposes the "brilliantly hidden agendas and purposefully murky corporate relationships" between these astonishingly powerful families. His evidence is persuasive and reveals a devastating story of Orwellian proportions, replete with political deception, shifting allegiances, and lethal global consequences. Unger begins his book with the remarkable story of the repatriation of 140 Saudis directly following the September 11 attacks. -Review from Amazon.com

I haven't read this book yet, but after hearing this guy on Air America today I think I just might buy it.
I've always been one to believe that there's been a cover-up regarding 9/11. There are so many conflicting stories and theories; obviously some of them are from whackos. However, this new evidence points out the fact that we aren't getting the whole story.
Speaking of whacko conspiracy nuts, Michael Moore's new film Fahrenheit 9/11 is comning out June 25TH (Just kidding Mike, you're my hero). From what I've heard he includes details on this flight and others in the film. We need to start hearing more of these alternate narratives to the story of 9/11; the governments version has never seemed complete anyway (this is the Bush Admininstration). Check out the trailer for the movie here.