"For example, American officials discovered in 1995 that Mr. Mugniyah was on a commercial flight that was supposed to stop in Saudi Arabia, but Saudi officials refused to allow the plane to land, frustrating the attempt to arrest him." No, New York Times. The plane landed but Saudi government turned down a US request to arrest him. Clarke offers a different account (and said that plane did not land): ""We appealed to the Saudis to grab him when the plane landed, and they refused," Clarke said in an interview broadcast Wednesday on ABC "World News With Charles Gibson.""