> Its not like Saudi Arabia was eagerly awaiting to burn some major
bridges with the US.
Bridges aren't typically their target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Saudi_role_in_the_Sept...
Bridges aren't typically their target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Saudi_role_in_the_Sept...
1. One guy who worked for Saudi intelligence knew about the attacks (disputed).
2. 15 of 19 attackers were Saudi nationals (dubious relevance, generally we don’t blame a whole country for crimes committed by individuals from that country).
3. Bin Laden family has close ties to the Saudi royal family, and Al Queda got funded by the Bin Laden family.
My surface-level takeaway is that Saudi royals deserve criticism for associating with the supporters of terrorism. However, I don’t see evidence the Saudi state conspired to commit the 9/11 attacks.
9/11 is a turning point in world history. Even today, much of what's going on in the digital world around cybersecurity, digital rights and software design is reverberating from what happened two decades ago. I have people close to me still living with the PTSD.
I think for some of the current generation who cannot directly remember it but live in the shadow, it's what WW2 was to mine.
For them it's important to keep clarity, and not give in to myths, convenient narratives and conspiracy theories. And that takes constant courage.
Looking back at it, it's beyond insane. We waged two theatres of war against completely the wrong countries, killed millions and wrecked our own culture, waged disinformation psyops on our own people to maintain a lie, for what?
And despite shooting Bin Laden - which was never a trial or any kind of real justice by our standards of civilisation, I can't help thinking the bad guys just got away with it all.
And there they are, still talking about "petrodollars" while the climate fails and the planet burns.
Not disputed. You didn't go far enough. Saudi intelligence agent met a set of the attackers in L.A. at the airport. He drove them, and had their first apartment setup. They started using computers in that apartment using Flight Sim software, for them to start training flying. He gave them cash. They scheduled enrolling in their classes in the Florida flight school from that apartment at that time.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sept-11-family-lawsuit-sa...