stusi
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posted on November 5, 2001 07:38:44 PM new
I saw a newsticker item tonight about some kind of meeting in D.C. on September 11. Does anyone know any more about this story?
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krs
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posted on November 5, 2001 09:22:33 PM new
Bin Laden's brother might have been there in spirit, but his body perished in an airplane crash in 1983, or maybe 1986.
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 5, 2001 09:56:34 PM new
Doesn't BinLaden have about 50 siblings? Surely they can't all be girls, there must be another brother in there somewhere.
Of course if they are all girls that could explain his fanaticism. Something to think about.
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bunnicula
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posted on November 5, 2001 10:05:36 PM new
There are at least two bin Laden brothers here in the US and have been for many years. IIRC, one is a professor and another is some kind of financier.
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mybiddness
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posted on November 6, 2001 11:01:07 AM new
It was the oldest brother that was killed in a light aircraft accident... tangled with some powerlines. Bin Laden was about 14 years old and was with his brother when it happened. There was an online article in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram about it not too long ago. It happened somewhere in Texas but I don't remember where.
He did have at least one brother in Washington on September 11th. There was an interview with the family doctor not long ago and that fact was brought out - but that's all I've heard about it.
Not paranoid anywhere else but here!
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hjw
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posted on November 6, 2001 11:43:10 AM new
I was told by a credible source that one lives in Boston.
Helen
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krs
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posted on November 6, 2001 12:40:18 PM new
Yes, he was an insurance mogul who made regular flights to the west coast to write policies on celebrity body parts.
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hjw
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posted on November 6, 2001 12:56:34 PM new
In that case he may be spending some time outside Boston in a Federal Pen.
Helen
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hjw
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posted on November 6, 2001 04:58:46 PM new
Actually, there is more than one brother in the Boston area and they have given millions to Harvard.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-091701clan.story
Helen
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stusi
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posted on November 6, 2001 05:13:34 PM new
If I were paranoid, I would be concerned about what wealthy, influential siblings of the world's worst terrorist could do here with their relative anonymity if so inclined.
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buyhigh
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posted on November 8, 2001 05:06:44 PM new
Think I read that there were about 30 boys in the family and with that many, his brothers could hardly be resonsible for the one that had been disowned by the family and kicked out of Saudi Arabia for trying to smuggle weapons into the country from Yemen. Since Osama wants to have the Saudi Royals ousted and a Moslem fundementalist government installed, I would think that his very wealthy business type brothers would find him an embarrassment and detrimental to their future.
buyhigh
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hjw
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posted on November 10, 2001 08:21:26 AM new
This is an interesting article on bin Laden's family leaving the country shortly after Sept. By family, the author includes only a niece and half brother.
exerpt....
"Mayer also reported that bin Laden's relatives in the United States were allowed to leave the country after Sept. 11 without being interrogated or detained.
The rich Saudis walked, and now poor Americans march. The sons of American farmers and factory workers will be risking their lives looking for bin Laden in caves all over Afghanistan.
Well, pardon me. If we're running a serious war on terrorism, shouldn't our agents have questioned bin Laden's niece and half brother before letting them go on their merry way to Riyadh?
The rich really are different from you and me. While hundreds of ordinary Middle Easterners are being held without trial, the bin Ladens flew home first class.
They're the ones I'd like to see injected with truth serum. Maybe Osama is the black sheep of the family, but the rich tend to know where their black sheep go, because there's money involved. "
Too late now.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/09/MN98865.DTL
Helen
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