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New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The global War on Terror was based on a mistake.

Quintupling down are we? Never change, The Atlantic.

ETA: Not sure if there’s a paywall, so just in case: https://archive.ph/68sf0

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Bin Laden was "from" within the borders of the Saudi Arabian (Sunni) state but he was a Shiite pan-islamist and a lot of Al Quaeda's support came from Iran, a major enemy of Saudi Arabia.

This is just to say it's much more complicated than "Saudis did 9/11", and maps like this grossly oversimplify things when they put Arab peoples into the types of cultural boxes westerners are used to seeing. It doesn't apply here.