AtDs balloon boys are real. And some still ruling.

[Mark Kohut]

"The American balloon champion who was part of the [Salem bin Laden]
entourage took George and
Lynn on a soaring flight above the sand dunes of the emirate of
Dubai...desert winds blew them over
a local emir's palace...The emir's guards pointed automatic weapons angrily
at the the billowing red and yellow dirigible."This is it." Harrington
remembered thinking..."he would end his life as a bloodstain on a ruler's
lawn"...
....but Harrington knew (later) where Salem had gone. To Washington D.C.
King Fahd wanted him there.......[Reagan had made clear he would double his
off-the-books contributions to the Cayman Islands account]..."

"Up the White House driveway they strolled on the chilly night of February
11, 1985--Yogi Berra,
VP G. Bush, Linda Gray, star of Dallas, Oscar wyatt, genuine oil baron (not
TV one) Sigourney Weaver, {Salem and King Fahd] and Donald and Ivana
Trump"---The Bin Ladens, Steve Coll
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