Reply #60: Plenty of Muslims were rounded up after 9/11.

[Bridget Burke]

Just not the rich Saudis.

I remember the New Yorker article that first broke the story--not long after 9/11. (It's not online.) A few relatives of Osama who left at that time were profiled. They did NOT seem the type of people who had supported him; one young woman living in a downtown loft, following the arts, hardly seemed a fanatic.

None of these people were questioned before they left the country. Relatives of murderers are routinely questioned--not as suspects, but in an effort to investigate crimes. I got the idea these people would have loved to tell anything they knew if it could help. But they never got the chance.