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kpete

(71,958 posts)
Thu Sep 12, 2019, 11:11 AM Sep 2019

Yet we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq?

Identity of 9/11 Terrorists

Hani Hasan Hanjour — Saudi Arabian
Khalid al-Mihdhar — Saudi Arabian
Nawaf al-Hamzi — Saudi Arabian
Salem al-Hamzi -- Saudi Arabian
Majed Moqed — Saudi Arabian
Mohamed Atta — Egyptian
Satam al-Suqami — Saudi Arabian
Waleed al-Shehri — Saudi Arabian
Wail al-Shehri — Saudi Arabian
Abdulaziz al-Omari — Saudi Arabian
Marwan al-Shehhi — United Arab Emirates
Fayez Ahmed — United Arab Emirates
Ahmed al-Ghamdi — Saudi Arabian
Hamza Saleh al-Ghamdi — Saudi Arabian
Mohand al-Shehri — Saudi Arabian
Ziad Samir Jarrah — Lebanese
Saeed al-Ghamdi — Saudi Arabian
Ahmed Ibrahim A. al-Haznawi — Saudi Arabian
Ahmed Abdullah al-Nami — Saudi Arabian

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Wounded Bear

(58,590 posts)
2. Well, intel had ObL living in Afghanistan at the time...
Thu Sep 12, 2019, 11:14 AM
Sep 2019

so that one was "somewhat" justified. Bush botched it and we're still paying for it.

Iraq was totally fabricated for the benefit of the oil industry. Still paying for that one, too.

atreides1

(16,064 posts)
3. With one exception
Thu Sep 12, 2019, 11:45 AM
Sep 2019

That being Lebanon, the rest of those countries were and still are US allies! And I believe that Saudi Arabia and the UAE were doing business with KBR at the time...and KBR was connected to Halliburton...and we all know the name connected with Halliburton was Cheney!!!!

Apollo Zeus

(251 posts)
4. The 9/11 attacks were carried out by a group who wanted to separate the KSA from the USA
Thu Sep 12, 2019, 12:02 PM
Sep 2019

KSA is the biggest regional ally of the US and Israel and seems to be involved in the Epstein blackmail operation.

We now have bases in Iraq and Afghanistan in preparation for the eventual invasion of Iran -- KSA's biggest rival and Israel's most active threat.

It is not as simple as looking at where the attackers were born -- they were Wahhabis, Sunni extremists, who favored isolation.

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
6. There's NO WAY we're attacking Iran ... none ... that would be a blood bath. They're not going to...
Thu Sep 12, 2019, 12:48 PM
Sep 2019

... welcome US forces as well as Iraq did.

EX500rider

(10,798 posts)
5. A lot of ISIS in Syria came from European countries...should we attack those countries?
Thu Sep 12, 2019, 12:47 PM
Sep 2019

I am guessing not.

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