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Ricky Martin, due to perform
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at tonight's Latin Grammy awards.
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Not even Ricky Martin would fly.
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But really, who wanted to fly?
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No one. Except the bin Ladens.
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We had some airplanes authorized
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at the highest levels of our government
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to fly to pick up
Osama bin Laden's family members
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and others from Saudi Arabia;
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transport them out of this country.
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It turns out that the White House approved
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planes to pick up the bin Ladens
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and numerous other Saudis.
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At least six private jets
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and nearly two dozen commercial plans
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carried the Saudis and the bin Ladens
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out of the U.S.
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after September 13th.
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In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members
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of the bin Laden family,
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were allowed to leave the country.
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Osama has always been portrayed as the bad apple,
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the black sheep of the family
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and that they cut off all relationship
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with him around 1994.
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In fact things are much more
complicated than that.
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You mean Osama has had contact
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with other family members?
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That's right.
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In the summer of 2001
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just before 9/11 one of Osama's sons
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got married in Afghanistan
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and several family members
showed up at the wedding.
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Bin Ladens?
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That's right.
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They have not cut off completely;
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that's really an exaggeration.
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We now welcome to Larry King Live,
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it's good to see him again,
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Prince Bandar,
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the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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to the United States.
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We have about twenty-four members
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of bin Laden's family and uh...
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Here?
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In America.
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Students and his majesty felt
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it was not fair for those innocent people
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to be subjected to any harm.
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On the other hand,
:21:43
we understood had the high emotions.
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So in cooperation with the FBI, we got them out.
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This is retired FBI agent Jack Cloonan.
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Before 9/11 he was a senior agent
:21:54
on the joint FBI-CIA al Qaeda task force.
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I as an investigator would not want