Bin laden was stripped from his Saudi nationality , his family disowned him , and his followers chased.

He was known to Saudi government as a terrorist all BEFORE 9/11.
Many of those associated with him were tried and some executed. Except those who managed to escape including bin laden.

9/11 commission: "No link to Saudi Arabia"
Intelligence Committee: "No link to Saudi Arabia"
FBI: "No link to Saudi Arabia"
Biden released files: "No link to Saudi Arabia"

Yet during Saudi backed LIV golf tournament :

Red neck Americans : "How dare you deny Saudi involvement in 9/11 !”
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meJess · F

Doesn’t excuse what he did however:

Bin Laden offered 200,000 fighting men to the leaders of Saudi Arabia when Sadam Hussein invaded Kuwait, to protect the kingdom.

Saudi did not want foreign troops on their soil but were given misleading information by the US regarding Iraq’ s intention. This culminated in Saudi refusing Bin Laden and allowing the US to use their country as a staging post to remove Iraq from Kuwait, which in turn created Al Qaeda.

The ruling brothers in Kuwait are not exactly liberal and open minded!

If fracking had been in operation in the US on a suitable scale back then, the US would probably have ignored Kuwait just as they did with Croatia.

Moon3624 · 18-21, F

@meJess
Wait wait wait how and when did I excuse what he did ?😂 what he did was evil and he was a terrorist.
However
My post was explaining how his actions were NOT tied to the Saudi government nor backed by the Saudi people and society.
And that he was [b]stripped[/b] of his Saudi nationality and was a wanted terrorist by the Saudi government even before 9/11.
If he was supported by Saudi government as you claim he would not have escaped Saudi Arabia and hid in Afghanistan before 9/11 even happened.
Bin laden himself caused many crimes within Saudi and was wanted by Saudi authorities long before 9/11
The first ppl who viewed him as a terrorist were not the Americans , but the Saudis.

meJess · F

@Moon3624 I was making the point that his behaviour was inexcusable but that it arose from US oil interest. Wasn’t suggesting that you had excused him of anything.

SomeMichGuy · M

@meJess That's a very simplistic & wrong explanation.

You should read the report of the 9/11 Commission.

Even without oil, all the seeds of malcontent Yemenis, etc., were sown and America, as the leader of the West, and a fat, rich country, was a good target and the enemy of those malcontents. (Young people given a taste of a different life & different dreams, hopes, aspirations, while in college in the West, who went home to the reality of very closed-minded, straight-jacketed existences, without access to the means to achieve the dreams they had been sold on, in the West.)