http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/saudi-embassy-funded-911-dry-run-report-170909223532351.html
So why has the US continued to ignore Saudi involvement, instead attacking Afghanistan and Iraq?
Who knew what?
Saudi Arabia financed a dry run of 9/11 in 1999
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So why has the US continued to ignore Saudi involvement, instead attacking Afghanistan and Iraq?
Who knew what?
Of course some factions in Saudi were involved. Why weren't they attacked? Geopolitics (oil) and other Saudi factions actually support the US.
According to the reports it wasn't 'factions', it was the Saudi government backing them.
http://nypost.com/2017/09/09/saudi-government-allegedly-funded-a-dry-run-for-911/
Saudi Arabia is isolating Qatar, accusing it of sponsoring terrorism - isn't that peachy!
The real reason the Saudi's are putting pressure on Qatar: they want to silence al - Jazeera.
The real reason the Saudi's are putting pressure on Qatar: they want to silence al - Jazeera.
I would think Qatar's ties with Iran are more significant than a news outlet.
I would think Saudi's ties with 9/11 would be more significant then anything Qatar is accused of at this point.
What do you think Qatar has done that's worse then 9/11?
Why is Iran the bogeyman when al - Qaeda, the Taliban and ISIS are spin offs of Wahhabism?
Countries like Qatar and especially Oman have had traditional good relations with Iran. It was the Persians that helped these countries resist Ottoman conquest.
Countries like Qatar and especially Oman have had traditional good relations with Iran. It was the Persians that helped these countries resist Ottoman conquest.
Don't know.. personalities they should lump any ANy countries who believes & practices in sharia law should be lump as a the bogeyman / terorrist countries!
To the US? Nothing but you are asking as silly question. The US isn't looking at attacking Qatar last I heard. In case you missed it, Saudi and Iran are battling for regional supremacy. That is why both are involved in Syria and why Qatar is significant to Saudi.
And yes, it would be factions within the Saudi government. Other factions support positive relations with the US because they realize those relations are the source of their wealth.
Other than Iran actually having national organization, a military, a nuclear program, and advanced missile program and the others you mention don't?
Thanks for confirming that Qatar isn't a threat to the US or us for that matter.
Now the question is why do you keep complaining about Iran instead of Saudi Arabia, whose support of 9/11 is becoming very clear.
If you're concerned about support of terrorism and radicals, sounds like Saudi should be your target, not Iran.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ect-terrorism-latest-complicity-a7898816.html
Yet Iran has signed a nuclear treaty and is presently abiding fully to that treaty.
Meanwhile the Saudi's appear to buying or have bought themselves the bomb.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/lat...abia-nuclear-weapon-pakistan-world-war-3-iran
It is more than a bit of a stretch to describe this episode as a "dry run" for 9/11. Suspicious you bet, but a dry run, no when all they did was try the cockpit door and fail to gain entry.
Further to describe an Employee of the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs as "A Saudi government employees for years" is while technically accurate, rather like describing an employee of the Ministery of Indigenous and Northern Affairs as a employee of the Canadian Government for years.
Further to describe an Employee of the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs as "A Saudi government employees for years" is while technically accurate, rather like describing an employee of the Ministery of Indigenous and Northern Affairs as a employee of the Canadian Government for years.
The pilots were so spooked that they did an emergency landing and then had the FBI take the two Saudis into custody.
They did more then try the cockpit door.
Not quite true. Qatar hosted the AQ elite during the planning of 9/11 including KSM just as they are known to give shelter to a whole variety of terror groups.
And your question about Iran is easy. Iran is led by a government that openly calls for the destruction of the US, has a extremely suspicious nuclear program with tens of thousands centrifuges for one commercial reactor, and who is openly trying to build its ballistic missile capability. Saudi Arabia on the other hand is allied to the US and is a major trade partner no matter what some of the royal family think. Simply put, even the radicals there are pragmatic enough to keep the US happy. Saudi is near the bottom of countries I would like to visit but Iran (and NK) are still below them.
p.s. You might also question the validity of the source. Saudi and Qatar are in conflict and suddenly Qatar's main news network (and a heavily government funded one at that) comes out with a critical report on Saudi. Definitely would want to do a little more research before blindly accepting the word of AJ on some low level government employees.
BTW. What was that you were saying about Afghanistan not being a valid target in response to AQ terrorism?
You want to attack the training grounds and not the terrorists themselves?
The 9/11 terrorists were Saudis, not Afghani.
And? You are arguing in circles. You claimed that Afghanistan had nothing to do with attacks on the US but then you post an article stating directly that they did. Laughable as usual.
And I clearly explained why Saudi is a US ally and Iran isn't and why the US didn't attack Saudi Arabia.
No, you are the one trying to claim that when Saudi gov't officials send people to Afghanistan and send a team to do a dry run of 9/11, then help send off the terrorists that committed the 9/11 attacks, that the US should therefore attack Afghanistan, not Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi's backed 9/11, sent a team in for a dry run and then a team of Saudi's went and attacked the US on 9/11.
And you think they should therefore attack Afghanistan?
Saudi's hijacked the planes and the Saudi's financed the attack.
Not Afghanistan.
Sorry but your article from Qatari news is rather short of details. It clearly states two Saudis who happened to be be low level government employees attempted to storm a cockpit but far from shows it was a Saudi government plot. And yes, some in Saudi were no doubt involved in terror attacks including 9/11 but that doesn't mean it was a government plot.
As for Afghanistan, the actual people who planned the attack were based in Afghanistan with the backing of the Taliban government. It makes sense as a target.
