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New 9/11 Evidence Revives Questions About Hijackers' Saudi Ties

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It's hard not to view a story like this, at this particular time, as some type of coercive measure being used against someone.

Tensions in the Middle East are the highest in 20 years and suddenly new 9/11 evidence starts popping up. Can't help but raise an eyebrow

The US relaxed it's three year ban on arms sales to the Saudis just yesterday. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-lift-ban-offensive-weapons-...

(US support for arms sales to Saudis has gone back and forth for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States%E2%80%93Sau... )

Coercive measure against whom? The US' special relationship with Saudi Arabia is well known. Numerous presidents including Bush and Trump are personal friends with the Saudi royal family. That the Saudis financed 9/11 and the American government covered that complicity up in the 9/11 commission report is an open secret.

I'm 90% convinced the only reason we went to war in Iraq (which was justified initially with specious links between Iraq and 9/11) was to take the heat off of SA because actual consequences for our bestest oil buddies killing several thousand Americans were simply not on the table, and they won't be on the table in the future.

I was 90% convinced the invasion of Afganistan and Iraq was a build up for an invasion of Iran. But it didn't happen.

Iraq, Iran and North Korea. The "Axis of Evil."

I can only assume that if Iraq had gone better we would probably be through Iran and on NK by now, but I don't know. Now it looks like they're ginning us up for a war with China.

Look at mapped locations of US military bases before and after the "War on Terror". It was always about establishing a foothold in the region to threaten Iran and displace competing imperial powers - although much of that has been ceded in the last decade or so.

But if they’re personal friends, then why finance a terrorist attack? I’d never treat my bestest buddies that way.

There is a large group of Saudi royalty and some of them might be financing extremist organizations with their royal money.

For the replies speculating about what this is retribution for, the Saudis recently ended the petrodollar

The formula is just the Pythagorean theorem.

The sketch showing the distance d projected on the ground is wrong in that regard, it's calculating the distance from the plane to the horizon in a direct line. Good enough approximation for small h I guess.

This is just a homework exercise of the sort that you might find in any high school geometry textbook, and the solution would not be useful to someone planning an attack. This is a nonsense story.

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