Remember that in the “slam-dunk” Bushfuscation of 9/11, hardly anyone “remembers” that the hijackers were almost all friendly allied Saudi Arabians, funded, most likely through connections with the friendly allied corporate conglomerate – the Saudi Binladin Group. Meanwhile, attorneys for the Saudi Binladin Group are busy trying to respond to September 11th related lawsuits in federal court. From CNN:
The company filed the defense papers late Friday in U.S. District Court in answer to claims brought by representatives, survivors and insurance carriers of the victims. The plaintiffs, who seek billions of dollars in damages, allege the Saudi Binladin Group, along with numerous banks, charities and individuals worldwide, provided material support and assistance to al-Qaida prior to the attacks. The plaintiffs contend Bakr Binladin – Osama bin Laden’s brother, the senior member of the Binladin family and chairman of Saudi Binladin Group – was one of al-Qaida’s principal financiers.
The Saudi Binladin Group claims, surprisingly, that this isn’t the case, and that the company forced Osama out as a shareholder in 1993. Osama presumably got his 2% stake bought out, but the Saudi Binladin Group develops minor vocal cord injuries when asked to explain, in lieu of a federal order in July for the Binladin Group to cough up some sort of record for where the money went.
Instead, the Saudi Binladin Group sticks with its story that it’s a huge immediate family (Osama has 50+ siblings) and keeping track of a few bad apples who want to destroy an ordinal direction is near impossible. A group spokesperson responds to the charges, “Blame the cousins, not the brothers… wait, how many times removed does a “supportive” Binladin relative have to be for us to avoid paying you anything?”
The Binladin Group also claims that Bakr Binladin publicly renounced Osama in 1994 and that the Saudi government froze Osama’s assets and revoked his citizenship.
Binladin company: We disowned Osama [CNN]
I think Bushfuscation might be my new favorite word
“Hardly anyone”??? Just check out right wing and anti-salafist blogs. Riyadh is right up there with Tehran and Paris as primary ICBM targets, and more than a few people constantly repeat Saudi Delenda Est – it’s actually a fairly popular sig.
What people want is Iran, then Saudi, then the rest of the Arab world. They’re all vicious tyrannies and hotbeds of salafist extremism. Being “friends” with the Saudis, Mubaraks, etc just stokes Islamism while postponing the inevitable. We’re going to have to take over, if not annihilate, all of those countries, so might as well do it sooner.
Wow good thinking there David Rockefeller.
You keep right on fearing dem terr’sts.
Bush and Cheney are so in bed with the Saudis that they let them fund terrorists and Bin Laden. The Saudis are our enemies, not the Iraqis.
Hardly anyone remembers that half the alleged hijackers are still alive. OOPS!
you mean some of the hijackers survived the plane crashers?
Read History. After WWI, Britain carved up the former Ottoman Empire. Arabia was a bunch of tribes, with the al-Saud family being the badasses. The British put them in control, helped build out the oil infrastructure. The Saudi Royal Family isn’t big about sharing the wealth, so all the “townspeople” actually hate the Royal Family (Bin Laden REALLY didn’t like them). There’s a total dichotomy between the Saudi Royal Family (looves Bush) and the religious people living in Saudi Arabia (hate the Royal Family and by us keeping them funded and in-charge, they hate us).
It’s never as simple as Fox News tells you, I promise.
i thought FNC was anti-Saudi?
In James Risen’s book State of War, there was a few stories Bin Laden’s connection with the Saudis secret service both before and after 911. Post-911, Jordanian agents who toured the Saudis intelligence hq spotted Osama screensavers on many of the computer screens there. However, strong Saudi’s back-channel supports for Osama bin Laden is an inconvenient truth that the Bush Administration tried really hard to hide from the American public. They had good reasons to do that. Bill Clinton would have done the same. We had no choice. As long as we remained hugely dependent on foreign oils, we need the Saudis government more than they need us. Anything that flamed the public anger toward the Saudis would put the White House in a tough spot and could potentially drive up oil prices to the level that our own economic growth would be in peril. So here you go. Complain about the Saudis all you want but as long as our fellow Americans continue to burn gasoline like it’s their last day on earth, there isn’t much the government could do to rein in the Saudis.
“there isn’t much the government could do to rein in the Saudis.”
Except through a false flag op that subtlety implicates the Saudis without suggesting an imminent invasion of the peninsula.
Actually, as long as Osama is still out there, life altering laws are passed and darkened events unfold– some known and some unknown– while power and fortunes are made in the name of national security.
True, Osama is on the run….but so is the fake rabbit at the dogtrack. One must keep the dogs of war excited you know or no one would come to wager.
whaddya gonna do? this country isn’t going to reduce its dependence on oil/gasoline and thus has been and will be in bed with the Saudis. Hillary won’t do anything about it, and Rudy won’t do anything about it: the country likes to drive, and Michigan Democrats won’t allow a meaningful rise in CAFE standards (funny how Dems have been in charge of Congress for nine mos. now and no CAFE bill has been passed; with the guaranteed veto it’s free posturing and they still can’t get it done).
George, you just prove how stupid and naive liberals are. If Osama was killed tomorrow do you think it would make a damn bit of difference in the war on terror? Ooooh, maybe al Qaeda in Iraq would surrender, or the Taliban would magically give up. BTW, I have some AAA rated subprime mortgages to sell you.
@Cynic: Actually CAFE is retarded, I’d get into all the reasons why but Car & Driver has already done the job for me. I strongly suggest you check it out before you babble about how no CAFE bill has been passed (thank god).
http://www.caranddriver.com/columns/12936/top-10-reasons-why-the-corporate-average-fuel-economy-law-is-d-u-m-b.html
Odd but interesting that Anonymous considers George Smiley a “liberal”. As my good friend David Cornwall often states, “If one makes the enemy look stupid, one loses the justification for taking him on…’
I’m talking about Bin Laden, Anonymous, without reference should you wonder.
yah what about israel
Although the OBL family denies association with Osama, strangely enough the Binladin family website expired on the very same day which their estranged son and brother attacked the united stated. Proof and facts are at saudi-binladin-group.com – which is the family’s former website expired 9-11-01.
This is a little known bit in the media, but is very verifiable and is a fascinating and rarely documented part of the 9/11 story.