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to win a Grammy or a Tony but hopes to resolve this as soon as he learns to sing and act. He recently lost fifty-two pounds by refusing to eat anything that says “nonfat” on it, and is working on his next film, titled Fahrenheit 9/11. He lives with his wife and daughter in Michigan and New York.

1 A NOTE ABOUT NOTES IN THIS BOOK: For all other chapters, I have placed sources and notes in the back of the book so as not to interrupt the reading flow. But this chapter contains so many serious questions, facts and charges, I thought it best to include them right here on the pages. Many of these source articles will be posted on my Web site, www.michaelmoore.com where you can read them in full.

2 Ken Guggenheim, “Advocates for 9/11 commission blame White House after deal collapses,” The Associated Press, October 11, 2001.

3 Joe Conason, “Can Bush Handle Panel’s Questions?” The New York Observer, April 7, 2003.

4 Michael Elliot, et al., “They had a plan,” Time magazine, August 12, 2002.

5 Jane Mayer, “The House of bin Laden: A family’s, and a nation’s, divided loyalties,” The New Yorker, November 12, 2001.

6 Patrick E. Tyler, “Fearing harm, bin Laden kin fled from US,” The New York Times, September 30, 2001.

7 In 1975, George received a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School, according to his White House biography.

8 Mike Allen, “For Bush, a slippery situation,” The Washington Post, June 23, 2000.

9 Thomas Petzinger Jr., et al., “Family Ties: How oil firm linked to a son of Bush won Bahrain Drilling Pact—Harken Energy had a web of Mideast connections; in the background: BCCI—entrée at the White House,” The Wall Street Journal, December 6, 1991.

10 Walter V. Robinson, “Military Record: Questions Remain on Bush’s Service as Guard Pilot,” The Boston Globe, October 31, 2000; Ellen Gamerman, “Bush’s past catching up on road to White House,” The Baltimore Sun,November 4, 2000.

11 Jonathan Beaty, “A Mysterious Mover of Money and Planes,” Time magazine,October 28, 1991.

12 Jerry Urban, “Feds investigate entrepreneur allegedly tied to Saudis,” Houston Chronicle, June 4, 1992; Mike Ward, “Bin Laden relatives have ties to Texas,” Austin American-Statesman, November 9, 2001.

13 Mike Ward, “Bin Laden relatives have ties to Texas,” Austin American-Statesman, November 9, 2001; Suzanne Hoholik & Travis E. Poling, “Bin Laden brother ran business, was well-liked in Central Texas,” San Antonio Express-News, August 22, 1998.

14 Susan Sevareid, “Attacks hurt bin Laden conglomerate,” The Associated Press, October 7, 2001; Richard Beeston, “Outcast who brought shame on family,” The London Times, September 15, 2001.

15 Jane Mayer, “The House of bin Laden: A family’s, and a nation’s, divided loyalties,” The New Yorker, November 12, 2001; Michael Moss, et al., “Bin Laden family, with deep western ties, strives to re-establish a name,” The New York Times, October 28, 2001.

16 “The bin Laden business empire,” St. Petersburg Times, September 23, 2001; Anne E. Kornblut & Aaron Zitner, “Terror figure’s family has benign ties in US,” The Boston Globe, August 26, 1998; Marcella Bombardieri, “In Cambridge, a bin Laden breaks family silence,” The Boston Globe, October 7, 2001.

17 Michael Dobbs & John Ward Anderson, “A Fugitive’s Splintered Family Tree,” The Washington Post, September 30, 2001.

18 Mitch Frank, “A Wealthy Clan and Its Renegade,” Time magazine, October 8, 2001; “18 die in holiday weekend plane crashes,” United Press International, May 31, 1988.

19 Kurt Eichenwald, “Bin Laden Family Liquidates Holdings with Carlyle Group,” The New York Times, October 26, 2001.

20 Joe Conason, “Notes on a native son,” Harper’s Magazine, February 1, 2000.

21 Kurt Eichenwald, “Bin Laden Family Liquidates Holdings with Carlyle Group,” The New York Times, October 26, 2001.

22 www.carlylegroup.com.

23 Middle East Policy Council’s board of directors. http://www.mepc.org/ public%5Fasp/about/board.asp.

24 Al Jazeera; Washington