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FAHRENHEIT 9/11 -- WHAT WAS I THINKING? VIGNETTE

[Prince Bandar] In America. Students and -- His Majesty felt it's not fair for those innocent people to be subjected to any harm. On the other hand, we understood the high emotions, so, with coordination with the FB, we got them all out.

[Moore] This is retired FBI agent Jack Cloonan. Before 9/11, he was a senior agent on the join FBI-CIA al Qaeda task force.

[Jack Cloonan] I, as an investigator, would not want these people to have left. I think, in the case of the bin Laden family, I think it would have been prudent to hand the subpoenas out, have them come in, get on-the-record. You know, get on the record.

[Moore] That's the proper procedure?

[Jack Cloonan] Yeah.. How many people were pulled off airlines after that coming into the country who were what? They were from the Middle East or they fit a very general picture.

[Moore] We held hundreds of people for weeks and months at a time.

[Jack Cloonan] We held hundreds --

[Moore] Did the authorities do anything when the bin Ladens tried to leave the country?

[Craig Unger, Author, House of Bush, House of Saud] No. They were identified at the airport. They looked at their passports and they were identified.

[Moore] Well, that's what would happen to you or I if we left the country.

[Craig Unger, Author, House of Bush, House of Saud] Exactly. Exactly.

[Moore] So, a little interview, check the passport. What else?

[Craig Unger, Author, House of Bush, House of Saud] Nothing.

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