{"id":80,"date":"2004-03-11T09:43:44","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T09:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=80"},"modified":"2004-03-11T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T09:43:44","slug":"107901622488270059","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"107901622488270059"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Great Escape<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/feature\/2004\/03\/11\/unger_1\/\">Salon<\/a> has an excerpt from a book which  details how Saudis (many of them bin Ladens) were whisked out of the US in the days after 9\/11. Here's what happened with one flight: <\/p>\n<ul>According to the same source, a young female member of the bin Laden family was the sole passenger on the first leg of the flight, from Los Angeles to Orlando. In the immediate aftermath of 9\/11, boarding any airplane was cause for anxiety. But now that the name Osama bin Laden had become synonymous with mass murder, boarding a plane with his family members was another story entirely. To avoid unnecessary dramas, the flight's operators made certain that the cockpit crew was briefed about who the passengers were -- the bin Ladens -- and the highly sensitive nature of their mission.<br \/>\nHowever, they neglected to brief the flight attendants. <\/p>\n<p>On the flight from Los Angeles, the bin Laden girl began talking to an attendant about the horrid events of 9\/11. 'I feel so bad about it,' she said. <\/p>\n<p>'Well, it's not your fault,' replied the attendant, who had no idea who the passenger really was. <\/p>\n<p>\"Yeah,\" said the passenger. \"But he was my brother.\" <\/p>\n<p>\"The flight attendant just lost it,\" the source said.<\/ul>\n<p>Yep. I imagine I'd have lost it, too. I'd probably have made damn sure news of my experience was broadcast far and wide, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Escape Salon has an excerpt from a book which details how Saudis (many of them bin Ladens) were whisked out of the US in the days after 9\/11. Here's what happened with one flight: According to the same source, a young female member of the bin Laden family was the sole passenger on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}