The Truth about SA’s Whabbist proselytization has always been out there.
We can thank the leftwing icon George Bush for covering up for his friends the Saudis.
What a scumbag
I don’t think that’s much of a secret, since most (or all) of the hijackers were Saudi, and the organizer of the attack was the son of a highly-connected Saudi businessman.
What if our response would be on a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Didnt Obama just meet with the Saudis. I bet there are things Obama doesnt want known...
Obama and Bush covered it up.
Tin foil hat signal: Why now? is this a warning shot to the FBI about the Clinton email server?
Say—what would this do to oligarchs like Buffett?
The Wahhabi sect controls about half the power of Saudi Arabia. Every now and then they ponder overthrowing the Saud regime and making Saudi Arabia a theocracy, like a Sunni version of Iran. The Saud have a good response to this, that makes the Wahhabis shake in their boots.
They threaten that if the Wahhabis try to overthrow them, they will strip the Wahhabis of their management of Mecca, Medina, and all other mosques in the country, and turn it over to the more mystical, but currently less violent Muslim sect, the Sufi.
This is such an effective threat that other nations should use it as well. Even Israel could do this with the al-Asqa mosque. The Wahhabi that manage it frequently engage in rabble rousing and aggressive attacks against Israelis.
In any event, the US no longer gets any oil from SA, except some fungible oil through the spot market. So there is no reason at all for us to give them any consideration at all.
If we abandon them, it will almost certainly mean war between SA and Iran, since Iran has been trying to destabilize the Saud for decades now. And while we would no longer support the Saud, or let them have influence in the US, we should have no real objection to selling them weapons that will kill a lot of Iranians.
But, where were W? And Dick Cheney? And Donald Rumsfeld? How could they push that Saudi intel under the carpet and instead push so hard for a totally fictitious Iraq-9/11 link? How come Baghdad, not Riyadh, got punished and occupied? And can you imagine the difference it would have done, in terms of deploying forces, managing the insurrection,unsettling the balance of the ME?
I am so shocked.