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When Did the Bin Laden Clan Fly Away?

Matt Welch | 9.17.2003 1:01 AM

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Spinsanity sorts through the conflicting press reports about the special government treatment afforded to Osama's family after Sept. 11, 2001. (Link via Kevin Drum, who notes that the confusion "could be quickly and precisely answered at any time by the Bush administration.")

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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