They got the information together rapidly. As it turned out many of the so-called Saudi documents were stolen or forged and several of the "dead terrorists" were alive and well in Arabia or had died in the States a year before.)
(While 94 airlines agreed to identify passengers on planes flying to the United States, Saudi Arabian Airlines refused.)
I travel a good bit and haven't seen manifest information available since 1972.. Further, the Saudis as in Saudia Airlines are as cautious as EL AL re: security so as not to make innocent people targets.
(A month after the attacks, The New York Times reported that ''Saudi Arabia has so far refused to freeze the assets of Osama bin Laden and his associates.'' Of particular concern was Riyadh's unwillingness to shut down the ''charities'' that are Al Qaeda's lifeline.)
(The Saudis wouldn't freze the assets of innocent people without evidence. The NYT was blowing smoke. Remember the Aspirin factory in Sudan.. The US government froze that guy's assets and never paid for the destruction of the pharmaceutical repacking plant even after ALL the independent investigators proved that it was what it said it was)
If Bush et all thought the Saudis were guilty of this act of terrorism against us, they would have acted. AS it is, we propbably need to clean up Afghanistan and OBL may be a mouthy lunatic, but he didn't pull this off.
I personally doubt there will be another huge act of terrorism against us because the puppet-masters are to close to being exposed and I fear that may come as a huge and terrible surprise to ALL of us.