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Comrade Grumpy

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3. Hmmm....US troops went there in 1991 as part of the Gulf War.

Reply to hughee99 (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 03:08 AM

Nov 2014

But the Saudis invited them in. Bin Laden really didn't like that. Getting the infidel troops out of the land of Mecca was a big demand of his. The last ones left in 2003, I think.

Somebody blew up Khobar Towers in 1996, killing 19 US servicemen. Maybe we bombed somebody after that?

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