Here's an interesting fact: Mohammed Bin Laden, Bin Laden's father...

[MnFats]

...died May 29, 1968 in a plane crash in San Antonio, Texas. The Beech 95-C55 crashed while taking off. The cause was listed as fuel starvation. A fuel selector had been left in the wrong position.
Conspiracy theories, anyone?

just found this while surfing....found it odd.

[Syrinx]

1. didn't the brother, Salem, also die in a plane accident? n/t

[MnFats]

2. Good call. he also died in Texas...hmmm, I wonder...

SCHERTZ - One chapter in the enigmatic story of Osama bin Laden might lead to a Texas pasture, where his oldest brother died 13 years ago in an accident that is still something of a mystery.

What we do know is that Salem bin Laden, 42, and the oldest of Saudi Arabia's bin Laden brothers, was on one of his frequent visits to Texas when he and friends went out for a Sunday afternoon of fun - flying low-power ultralight aircraft at an air park north of San Antonio.

What we don't know is why Salem bin Laden took off in the tiny aircraft and turned toward a nearby row of high-power electrical towers. He climbed, but not high enough to clear the upper power line. The Sprint ultralight got tangled and crashed into the ground 115 feet below.

"Of everybody who was there, nobody could figure out why he tried to fly over the power lines," said Gerry Auerbach, 77, of New Braunfels, a retired pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines and for the bin Laden brothers, multimillionaire builders who long ago disowned Osama.

"It was kind of a weird deal," said Schertz police Lt. Stephen Starr, at the time the city's acting police chief. "He just drifted up into the wires."

[lapfog_1]

11. They can do amazing things with remote controls

really small ones too... just like flying a model plane... and the wreckage? Well, if you aren't the first ones there on the scene (for example, Paul Wellstone's crash), then who in the police force would know what belongs on an ultralight and what doesn't. The NTSB? The FAA? Even if called to the crash, the ones that actually catch the call are YOU'RE guys... not the regular hard working folks that actually investigate.

Proof? None. Paranoid? Yup. Too many plane crashes, many with allegations of remote control or something, all of them too convenient for the BFEE.

The motive with this one? Either to silence a brother about the connections or to warn others that this could happen to them too.

Think about who the targets of the anthrax attack (which has all but disappeared down the memory hole).

[caledesi]

5. His brother, Salem was a sorta partner w/ * in the Arbusto company. nt

[Erika]

3. Bin Laden & the Bush family have been connected

for decades. A Texas crash is just that.

[Ladyhawk]

4. There are way too many bin Laden brothers and sisters to

draw any conclusions. I imagine Poppy bin Laden was a powerful man and it's possible someone took him out, but if he was powerful, he had lots of enemies. Take your pick. :D

[orleans]

6. randi has mentioned this lately--this past week i think

she has mentioned it before--the bush family/republicans and mysterious plane crashes

[CJCRANE]

7. Bushes & Bin Ladens...

should be a book about it...there are too many suspicious connections.

[Luminous Animal]

8. There is.

It is titled House of Bush, House of Saud.

http://www.houseofbush.com/

[CJCRANE]

10. Ta-da! Thanks. nt

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