Treat them as a sovereign nation and get serious about the #1 supporter of terrorism— SAUDI ARABIA!! They were the supporters of the 911 attack on our people!! It is the Sunnis stupid!
You aren’t calling me stupid are you?
The 9/11 attack didn’t have any Saudis in leadership roles, they were all just the muscle. Every country in the region including Saudi Arabia suffered al Qaeda attacks except for IRAN. The Saudis themselves went after and shut down a charity that had fed Saudi pension money to AQ while the US balked at going after questionable branches of the same charity.
The leadership of the Hamburg cell was two Syrians- one an Imam and the other a business man with a Syrian intel background. The lead Hamburg cell hijacker, Atta, was Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood with a contacts in Syria.
The Zarqawi cell in Baghdad in 2002 was composed of Egyptians... it later merged with Iraqi intel and evolved into ISIS. Zarqawi was also smuggling boss who controlled a smuggling route from the Afghan-Pakistan border through Iran to Iraq and Syria- he could not have done it without Iran’s approval.
Al Qaeda’s second-in-command was its current leader- Zawahiri, an Egyptian with familial ties at least one of Iran’s mullahs. Bin Laden’s mother, whom he called on 9/11, was Syrian. His family took shelter in Iran.
Two of the hijackers attended the Malaysian terror summit and were met with an Iraqi - this summit was where the USS The Sullivans and USS Cole attacks were planned, and while the USS The Sullivans attack did not succeed, the USS Cole was taken out by a bomb designed with the assistance of Hezbollah. Others were Palestinian. alQaeda holed up in Iran, not Saudi Arabia, after we went into Afghanistan.
AQ’s backers in the UK were al Mihijiroun at the Finsbury mosque - they were an opposition group seeking the overthrow of the House of Saud.