Fahrenheit 9\11 Page #5

You willing to come downtown

and give us a statement?

This gonna take a while?

'You got the time.'

Mine's worth money, yours isn't...

I asked you a question.

'You're gonna answer 'em not ask 'em.'

Now listen to me cop I pay your salary.

'Alright, sit down, I'm gonna earn it.'

Yeah, that's how cops do it.

What was goin' on here?

I think we need to know a lot more about that.

That needs to be the subject

of a significant investigation.

What happened?

How did it happen?

Why did it happen?

And who authorized it?

Try to imagine what those poor bastards were feeling

when they jumped outta that building to their death.

Those those those young guys and cops

ran into that building,

never asked a question,

and they're dead. And their families lives are ruined.

And they'll never have peace.

And if I had to inconvenience

a member of the bin Laden family

with a subpoena or a grand jury

do you think I'd lose any sleep over it?

Not for a minute, Mike.

And no one would question it.

No, it's right...

Not even the biggest civil libertarians?

No, no.

No one would question it.

It's just, ya know,

you get a lawyer and fine, counselor fine.

Mr. bin Laden this is why I'm asking you;

it's not because I think

it's you're anything,

I just want to ask you the questions

that I would anybody.

Right.

And that's all.

None of this made any sense.

Can you imagine in the days

after the Oklahoma City

terrorist bombing President Clinton

helping to arrange a trip out of the country

for the McVeigh family?

What do you think would have happened to Clinton

if that had been revealed?

Bandar, do you know the bin Laden family?

I do very well.

What are they like?

They're really lovely human beings;

uh, he is the only one I never, I don't know well.

I met him only once.

What was the circumstance under which you met him?

This is ironic, and uh, in the mid-80s,

if you remember,

we and the United States were supporting

the Mujhadeen to liberate Afghanistan

from the Soviets.

He came to thank me for my efforts

to bring the Americans, our friends,

to help us against the atheists,

he said the communists.

He came to thank you

for helping bring America to help him?

And now he may be responsible

for bombing America.

Absolutely.

What do you make of him when you met him?

I was not impressed, to be honest with you.

Not impressed.

No. He was simple and quiet guy.

Hmmm.

A simple and quiet guy.

Whose family who just happened to have

a business relationship

with the family of George W. Bush.

Is that what he was thinking about?

Because if the public knew this

it wouldn't look very good.

Was he thinking,

'You know, I need a big black marker.'

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