Why? Most of the hijackers were Saudis. And then TX governor Bush had hosted the Taliban in Texas.
To take out their (al qaida’s) bases.
And I’ve said on here at least a dozen times that every religious site, major population center and military installations in the entire middle East (except Israel, Jordan, and maybe Egypt) should have disappeared under a bright flash followed by massive mushroom clouds.
14 of the hijackers were Saudi citizens, but those were muscle brought in late and kept out of the loop, not leaders. Not one of the pilots who knew the details of the mission was Saudi, and the lead hijacker’s cell in Hamburg Germany was organized and cultivated by two Syrians- one a businessman, the other “former” Syrian intelligence.
The ide was from a not very religious fellow named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who most certainly was not a Saudi...so this planner is a Baloch from a separatist region of Pakistan called Balochistan that borders Iran. [And is mirrored there by Balushistan an Sistan provinces with similar gripes against Iran] Balochistan is sort of like Pakistan’s flyover country- Islamobad wants all the territory [a large part of Pakistan] and its resources but doesn’t care for the Balochs who make up just 5% of the population of Pakistan and have been diluted to only about 15% of the population of their own region and have almost no voice in the national parliament - there’s no electoral college setup over there or Senate to balance the interests of rural people vs city people or minorities vs the majority. They likewise haven’t got much say in their own region. So they have been bitter since Pakistan invaded the region years ago. Since then, Pakistan imported large numbers of refugees to the region, further diluting the Balochs’ ability to govern themselves. So there’s some pissed off Balochs out there for recruiters, and they may find it easy to recruit people like KSM against the US since the US supports what they see as “the swamp”, Pakistan’s regime in Islamabad.
So Baluchistan insurgents in Iran and Balochs in Pakistan turned to Saddam Hussein [not the Saudis] for support beginning in the 1950s...