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bin Laden kin cites ‘inaccuraces’

Associated Press

A half-brother of Osama bin Laden says he enjoyed most of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” — except for what he called “inaccuracies” about his family.

“It’s a moving film,” Yeslam Binladin, a Geneva-based tycoon and one of the al-Qaida leader’s 53 siblings, said in an interview with the French magazine VSD.

“I even laughed at times,” he said, “but a lot less when he states errors or inaccuracies about my family, knowing perfectly well that he’s deceiving the public.”

In the film, Moore alleges that the U.S. administration helped 142 Saudis — including two dozen members of bin Laden’s family — fly out of the United States two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, even though commercial air space was closed.

“That’s false and can be verified by anyone,” said the Saudi-born Binladin, who intentionally spells his name differently from Osama, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks.