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Showing Original Post only (View all)New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity [View all]
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/september-11-attacks-saudi-arabia-lawsuit/678430/No paywall link
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For more than two decades, through two wars and domestic upheaval, the idea that al-Qaeda acted alone on 9/11 has been the basis of U.S. policy. A blue-ribbon commission concluded that Osama bin Laden had pioneered a new kind of terrorist groupcombining superior technological know-how, extensive resources, and a worldwide network so well coordinated that it could carry out operations of unprecedented magnitude. This vanguard of jihad, it seemed, was the first nonstate actor that rivaled nation-states in the damage it could wreak.
That assessment now appears wrong. And if our understanding of what transpired on 9/11 turns out to have been flawed, then the costly policies that the United States has pursued for the past quarter century have been rooted in a false premise.
The global War on Terror was based on a mistake.
A new filing in a lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims against the government of Saudi Arabia alleges that al-Qaeda had significant, indeed decisive, state support for its attacks. Officials of the Saudi government, the plaintiffs attorneys contend, formed and operated a network inside the United States that provided crucial assistance to the first cohort of 9/11 hijackers to enter the country.
The 71-page document, released in redacted form earlier this month, summarizes what the plaintiffs say theyve learned through the evidence obtained in discovery and recently declassified materials. They allege that Saudi officialsmost notably Fahad al-Thumairy, an imam at a Los Angeles mosque and an accredited diplomat at Saudi Arabias consulate in that city, and Omar al-Bayoumi, who masqueraded as a graduate student but was identified by the FBI as an intelligence operativewere not rogue operators but rather the front end of a conspiracy that included the Saudi embassy in Washington and senior government officials in Riyadh.
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Every so often after 9-11 some group photo from the Reagan years would pop up, & if the names were attached
Hekate
May 20
#43
"How does Liz Cheney fit into your narrative? Is she angry that another group hopped onto her father's power grab"
FoxNewsSucks
May 20
#71
No one has seemed to connect the common theme of involvement through out that 40 years of those same individuals:
B.See
May 20
#85
The fact that the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia does not mean they had the backing of the Saudi government.
Martin68
May 20
#50
I was responding to onecaliblral who wrote, " We already knew this. The terrorists were from Saudi Arabia."
Martin68
May 20
#99
I believe the main rationale for the invasion of Iraq was imaginary weapons of mass destruction. Afghanistan was invaded
Martin68
May 21
#118
If the Bin Laden family members were in on it, they would have left the US before the attack
FakeNoose
May 20
#74
I've always thought they had to be. There's only one conspiracy theory I've entertained about 9/11
underpants
May 20
#5
the guy who supposedly piloted flight 77 into the Pentagon could barely fly a Cessna. So yeah, makes sense.
LymphocyteLover
May 21
#136
Saudi family from Sarasota Florida vanishes weeks before the GOP allows the 911 attacks
suegeo
May 21
#139
This one is so important. Yes, we did know very quickly ad there was an entire culture against pointing out the obvious.
NoSheep
May 20
#94
The other big clue was that an intact passport of the pilot Mohammed Atta was found amid all the the pulverized rubble.
TheRickles
May 21
#117
Yes, I remember how they sold it and how the media supported the Bush Administration's decision to go to war..
jalan48
May 20
#92
And less than 1 week after 9/11 w bush met with Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar whose wife was ...
Botany
May 20
#18
Bandar was so close with the Bush Family that Barbara Bush called him "Bandar Bush" ...
Hekate
May 20
#30
It wasn't based on a mistake. It was based on a well crafted lie supported by those who saw Carter's attempts at peace
Ford_Prefect
May 20
#41
The War on Terror was not based on a mistake, but a willful ignoring of the evidence.
Aristus
May 20
#77
The Democrats united behind Bush; if it had been a Democratic President, the pukes would've impaled him or her.
NBachers
May 20
#103