We’re not going to nuke the place.
Please tell me who was funding Osama Bin Laden. Do you know? Which of the princes or entities in Saudi Arabia did?
I’m not saying that to be unfair to you, I just don’t know who funded him, or if he was there on his own dime, and running his efforts as a private citizen without anyone’s help.
You know, that is possible. He managed to recruit some of the students attending our colleges in Florida as I understand it. Was government involvement or even one of the prince’s involvement necessary for that?
You suggest nuking the nation because of the vile efforts there. What do we know about those vile efforts other than some extrapolations of circumstances we can’t really be sure of?
I understand your frustration, but I am not of a mindset to nuke the nation and ensure the wrath of the world upon our heads for doing it.
If we use nukes in the region, what’s to stop Russia from using nukes in the region?
Surely you must see the risk in that.
Not trying to give you a hard time on this. I just think there’s only so much you can do.
I see this as a Osama Ben Laden operation. I do not see it as a government operation. I’m not even sure if Saudi princes were involved. How can we know that?
If someone has a name and enough information to come to a reasoned conclusion, then the next president should demand action be taken against the criminals.
International charges could be filed. If Cruz know of this, he’d do his best to get justice.
“It has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority,” read a cable from Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, dated Dec 30, 2009.
“Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide,” added the document.
WASHINGTON — Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/middleeast/24saudi.html?_r=1
After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors.
But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress’ investigative report on 9/11 dealing with “specific sources of foreign support” for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals.
It was kept secret and remains so today.
President Bush inexplicably censored 28 full pages of the 800-page report. Text isn’t just blacked-out here and there in this critical-yet-missing middle section. The pages are completely blank, except for dotted lines where an estimated 7,200 words once stood (this story by comparison is about 1,000 words).
A pair of lawmakers who recently read the redacted portion say they are “absolutely shocked” at the level of foreign state involvement in the attacks.
http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/
Was the Saudi Government Involved in the 9/11 Terror Attacks?
Former lawmakers again stir suspicions that the hijackers had help. The evidence is murky, but critics believe that American investigators have not dug hard enough.
Since 2002, when former senator Bob Graham led the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry (JICI) into the 9/11 attacks, he has insisted that members of the Saudi government played a role. But he’s had a hard time getting others to listen.
“There’s no question in my mind that the Saudi government was involved in 9/11,” the Florida Democrat tells The Daily Beast. “But there’s still so much we don’t know. Unfortunately, many Americans seem to have lost interest.”
The issue was revived last month when The New York Times reported that Graham and former senator Bob Kerrey, a Democrat from Nebraska, had given affidavits in an ongoing lawsuit against Saudi Arabia over compensation for families of the 9/11 victims. “I am convinced that there was a direct line between at least some of the terrorists who carried out the September 11th attacks and the government of Saudi Arabia,” Graham said in the affidavit. In a separate affidavit, Kerrey said, “Evidence relating to the plausible involvement of possible Saudi government agents in the September 11th attacks has never been fully pursued.”