Red State Renegade

While the administration and the media keep scapegoating Iran and Syria for the mayhem in Iraq:

Some media outlets report that the insurgency is largely made up of Iraqis, and that foreign fighters are but a small minority of the EDTWAUHIWDFTT.** (In effect, the ‘evil-doers’ are simply Iraqis who are fighting the occupation of their land by a hostile foreign power).

The LA Times reports in a sobering article that the overwhelming majority of the inurgensts come not from Syria or Iran but from our “Ally,” Saudi Arabia. (Coincidentally, 15 of the 19 9-11 hijackers also came from Saudi Arabia).

And finally, our own government released a study this week which basically said that we cannot account for 190,000 guns issued to Iraq security forces in the last two years (not to mention hundreds of thousands of helmets and body armor pieces).

So tell me again who is arming the insurgents?

**EDTWAUHIWDFTT: ‘Evil-Doers-That-Will-Attack-Us-Here-If-We-Don’t-Fight-Them-There’

New information released this week should be GIANT news!

In the ‘more-ahead-of-it’s-time-than-we-could-have-ever-imagined’ department, Michael Moore’s highly controversial documentary Farenheit 9-11 made some startling (but later proven) claims that are well documented on his website:

“The White House approved planes to pick up the bin Ladens and numerous other Saudis…At least six private jets and nearly two dozen commercial planes carried the Saudis and the bin Ladens out of the U.S. after September 13th. In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country.”

The organization Judicial Watch has fought for several years to gain access to the FBI documents regarding these flights. Such documents, obtained early on by Judicial Watch and turned over to the 9-11 Commission, represented the first official government admission that such flights even existed.

Earlier versions, however, were heavily redacted by the FBI.

Lawyers for the group believed, based on unredacted footnotes (oddly enough), that the blacked out names included references to Osama Bin Laden himself.

They pressed the issue in court and in 2006, the FBI was ordered to re-release the documents.

The un-redacted documents were released this week and plainly state:

“THE PLANE WAS CHARTERED EITHER BY THE SAUDI ARABIAN ROYAL FAMILY OR OSAMA BIN LADEN”

What can you say?

It is ABSOLUTELY INSANE that the FBI had previously redacted Osama bin Laden’s name from the records in order “to protect privacy interests.” (And that the media is barely reporting this new admission).

The other aspect of the story has to do with just how much these planes were searched or the passengers interviewed.

The 9-11 Commission report said: “We found no evidence of political intervention” to facilitate the departure of Saudi nationals” and that “Our own independent review of the Saudi nationals involved confirms that no one with known links to terrorism departed on these flights.”

Yet the newly released documents show that the FBI work relating to these flights was shoddy at best. The documents claim (eight days after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. History) that not a single Saudi national nor any of the bin Laden family members possessed any information of investigative value, and that they were freed because none of the names showed up on terrorism “watch lists.”

Judicial Watch also points out numerous errors and inconsistencies within the FBI reports, further questioning the caliber of the investigative work:

“For example, on one document, the FBI claims to have interviewed 20 of 23 passengers on the Ryan International Airlines flight (commonly referred to as the “Bin Laden Family Flight”). On another document, the FBI claims to have interviewed 15 of 22 passengers on the same flight.”