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Fri Mar 2, 2012, 01:29 AM

patrice (47,384 posts)

131. To cater to their dissident extreme-fundamentalist-Islam Shia minority, who severely critique

royal House of Saud decadence and which Shia demographic in the region cross 2 borders: Iran->Iraq, in both of which countries Shia are the definite majority, and Iraq-> Saudi Arabia and in SA they are a small but virulent minority, which is one of the reasons that OBL was in Afghanistan, he'd been pressured out of SA, because of his rabble rousing ways with SA's extreme Shia.

I think another reason has to do with whether oil would be re-denominated in Euros at the time, so triggering a war in the region could be used to extract a better deal with either side of that issue.

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Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators Say [View all]	alp227	Mar 2012	OP
How brave and noble	crim son	Mar 2012	#1
Actually, Graham spoke out about this years ago...	Sancho	Mar 2012	#22
My heart goes out to Graham.	Keystone Writer	Mar 2012	#71
Senator Graham should know, he was on the Intelligence Committee and he took notes...	Rhiannon12866	May 2012	#221
Senator Graham has tried to highlight this for years.	FailureToCommunicate	Mar 2012	#61
It was probably the Saudis and the Bush Family operatives working in concert...	rfranklin	Mar 2012	#103
Both in oil	Rosa Luxemburg	Mar 2012	#105
along with noting the first plane hit.	BlueToTheBone	Mar 2012	#116
W said he "saw" the first plane hit, then later, said he was "told" about it...	KansDem	May 2012	#214
911-Truthers will eventually be 100% vindicated.	99th_Monkey	Mar 2012	#158
Utter nonsense	William Seger	May 2012	#168
Are you unaware of the Saudi/Bush Crime Family's longstanding & very cozy relationship	99th_Monkey	May 2012	#172
Oh, so you DO admit that we were attacked by terrorists?	William Seger	May 2012	#180
If you want to call all those Saudi stooges "terrorists" go right ahead	99th_Monkey	May 2012	#181
If you can demonstrate "Bush Crime Families ties to the Saudi-sponsored terrorists"	William Seger	May 2012	#182
Please don't let any of these inconvenient facts distract you from your "rational" stupor..	99th_Monkey	May 2012	#183
WTF? I don't have any problem whatsoever dealing with credible facts.	William Seger	May 2012	#187
I think this is where we agree to disagree.	99th_Monkey	May 2012	#192
The official story was a "conspiracy theory" which was noted by the 9/11 commission chairs and other	rfranklin	May 2012	#194
Maybe it would help if you try to understand what I actually said	William Seger	May 2012	#197
There are many theories and you have chosen to argue about one version...	rfranklin	May 2012	#198
First, it's never been known as the "9/11 theory-considering movement"	William Seger	May 2012	#200
What other skyscraper "melted" and collapsed like the WTC or better yet, WTC7?	rfranklin	May 2012	#201
Discussing specific "truther" nonsense is not allowed here	William Seger	May 2012	#202
Sorry, I will stick to the topic	rfranklin	May 2012	#206
Most of what we know about 9/11 didn't come from the "Bush administration"	William Seger	May 2012	#207
Where did it come from? What were those unimpeachable sources?	rfranklin	May 2012	#208
You're kidding?	William Seger	May 2012	#211
You are straying into "truther" territory with your disposition...what credible sources?	rfranklin	May 2012	#212
Move the goal posts much?	William Seger	May 2012	#215
Using the put down cliches much?	rfranklin	May 2012	#216
Baloney!	William Seger	May 2012	#219
I'm a truther and I admit it was a terrorist attack.	wildbilln864	May 2012	#193
"was it the terrorists Richard Clarke kept warning me about?"	wordpix	May 2012	#188
Graham always raised questions about the real perpetrators of 9/11. He questioned everything,	sabrina 1	May 2012	#184
That's fascinating.	OnyxCollie	Mar 2012	#2
Two Democrats. Guess how long this will be allowed to go on.	truthisfreedom	Mar 2012	#3
So Bush invaded and destroyed two innocent countries and...	JJW	Mar 2012	#4
That would not necessarily mean that Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was not involved.	JDPriestly	Mar 2012	#5
Not Only That	DallasNE	Mar 2012	#17
I remember reading	christx30	Mar 2012	#139
bin laden family was also on the board of the carlyle group	newspeak	May 2012	#169
bin Laden was probably the patsy...like Oswald in the JFK assassination...	rfranklin	Mar 2012	#107
bin Laden sleeps wit da fishes....	FarCenter	May 2012	#177
In a nutshell	libodem	Mar 2012	#94
he didn't waste that money	newspeak	May 2012	#170
no shit sherlock!	unionworks	Mar 2012	#6
Beat me to it!	Suich	Mar 2012	#7
I believe 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi.	lob1	Mar 2012	#13
thanks	unionworks	Mar 2012	#15
+1	sarcasmo	Mar 2012	#156
no, it was 15/19 plus Osama bin Laden!	Carolina	Mar 2012	#39
Oh no's	2pooped2pop	Mar 2012	#40
Iran, silly!	Proud Liberal Dem	Mar 2012	#52
Damn Mexicans.	russspeakeasy	Mar 2012	#58
I kind of figured	christx30	Mar 2012	#138
Except that Saudi Arabia is a police state	Alcibiades	Mar 2012	#141
15 of 19 were Saudis	Enrique	Mar 2012	#91
does anyone else remember when they interviewed the immigration officer after 9/11?	newspeak	Mar 2012	#120
SHERLOCK! IS THAT YOU?!	unionworks	Mar 2012	#127
Plus Bush* gave 40 Mil to the Taliban to stop growning poppys	dmr	Mar 2012	#130
even later	unionworks	Mar 2012	#134
Actually, the Taliban did suppress opium poppy that year. Then we invaded.	Comrade Grumpy	Mar 2012	#159
Not just the Bushes, during the 9/11 hearings it was revealed that several other of our elected	sabrina 1	May 2012	#185
Just 8? I thought most of them were Saudis. Anybody have that info? n/t	schmice	Mar 2012	#133
Duh	southerncrone	Mar 2012	#8
Exactly my response!	alittlelark	Mar 2012	#55
Double duh	tralala	May 2012	#179
No kidding!	ProfessionalLeftist	Mar 2012	#9
Saudi Arabia gosh who knew	azurnoir	Mar 2012	#10
In other news	eridani	Mar 2012	#11
Of course they were! That's why we invaded them and brought them to justice after 9/11	bayareamike	Mar 2012	#12
Gee you THINK?	Warpy	Mar 2012	#14
And all this time, I thought it was "pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays & lesbians" who did it!	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2012	#16
Why did G.W. Bush send a private plane around the country on 9-11...?	lib2DaBone	Mar 2012	#18
Yes,it's true.	scarletlib	Mar 2012	#28
Is it?	Orrex	Mar 2012	#43
I'd have more confidence in the 911 Commission report if...	JHB	Mar 2012	#46
In that case, all we need to do	Orrex	Mar 2012	#47
More evidence. I am also not a truther, but this was reported some time ago.	JDPriestly	Mar 2012	#60
well, gee - who are you going to trust?	UpInArms	Mar 2012	#79
If you can point to where I make any claim on this to be "right"...	JHB	Mar 2012	#82
see post 60!	wildbilln864	Mar 2012	#117
Tampa Times, June 2004: "TIA now verifies flight of Saudis"	alp227	Mar 2012	#147
Well, shit.	Orrex	Mar 2012	#149
Didn't happen on 9/11	boppers	Mar 2012	#161
There was reams of newreel attesting to that fact at the time. n/t	nebenaube	May 2012	#204
Saudis House of Saud and bin Laden Family Members Leaving Us after 9/11/01.	OnyxCollie	Mar 2012	#59
remember, at the time they were going to have kissenger head the commission	newspeak	Mar 2012	#122
Snopes is wrong on this one,	mikeysnot	Mar 2012	#53
thank you!!!	newspeak	Mar 2012	#121
Unger agrees with snopes and vice versa.	boppers	Mar 2012	#162
Did you read the book?	mikeysnot	Mar 2012	#164
Oh, well, if the 9-11 Commission can't be trusted, who can?	dixiegrrrrl	Mar 2012	#66
snopes calls it false	barbtries	Mar 2012	#86
It was a few days after 9/11	hifiguy	Mar 2012	#88
Lets count the errors:	boppers	Mar 2012	#163
It's true. Even as all other aircraft were grounded for days	lunatica	Mar 2012	#29
Is it?	Orrex	Mar 2012	#44
I was hoping the sarcasm was self-evident	lunatica	Mar 2012	#48
Bush told the FBI not to interview members of the Saudi Royal Family	KansDem	Mar 2012	#70
This just in.	mahina	Mar 2012	#19
America has limited sovereignty on account of our energy dependency	Kolesar	Mar 2012	#27
No time to look back ....	JJW	Mar 2012	#20
Bomb Iran!!!	Ichingcarpenter	Mar 2012	#21
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have been playing us for suckers since the Reagan Administration.	Fuddnik	Mar 2012	#23
I was under the impression that conspiracy theories had their own forum/group here..	Fumesucker	Mar 2012	#24
The "Official 9-11 Story" Available in your local library's fiction dept.	AnOhioan	Mar 2012	#26
What makes this article "fiction"?	bathroommonkey76	Mar 2012	#142
The "Official 9/11 Story"	KansDem	May 2012	#173
The only reason this hasn't been locked and exported to the other forum	lunatica	Mar 2012	#31
That's no excuse. We cant be upsetting the public. nm	rhett o rick	Mar 2012	#111
factual reporting is different than random tools posting that steel doesn't bend	snooper2	Mar 2012	#143
We already know the facts, the government told us..	Fumesucker	Mar 2012	#146
The "official 9/11 story" itself is a conspiracy theory, so really it comes down to	coalition_unwilling	May 2012	#199
Duh! n/t	malaise	Mar 2012	#25
Yes, we invaded the wrong country. And it's not too late. Start with their giant embassy...	onehandle	Mar 2012	#30
Yes, we invaded the wrong country...	KansDem	Mar 2012	#72
no, we invaded the right country	flexnor	Mar 2012	#77
Dear Saudi Royal Family...	onehandle	Mar 2012	#80
doesn't one also sit on the board	newspeak	Mar 2012	#124
These same wonderful people now pushing us into new ruinous wars in Syria and Iran	leveymg	Mar 2012	#32
Really?	rrHeretic	Mar 2012	#33
HOLY HELLLLLL!	BeHereNow	Mar 2012	#34
Not only that! That Titanic sank! n/t	ejbr	Mar 2012	#35
On April 15th, tax day. Coincidence? I THINK NOT.	AtheistCrusader	Mar 2012	#62
K&R	midnight	Mar 2012	#36
Not to sound too cynical	Owlet	Mar 2012	#37
No kidding?!	Carolina	Mar 2012	#38
No shit!?!	wildeyed	Mar 2012	#41
Some of us knew this by 9/12	RevStPatrick	Mar 2012	#42
yeah, how advantageous for little boots	newspeak	Mar 2012	#125
In my local Gannett chain fish wrap...	hayrow1	Mar 2012	#45
Wht? Saudi Arabia, our ally, actually helped Iraq attack us?	Bruce Wayne	Mar 2012	#49
"In June 2006 FBI’s chief of investigative publicity, Rex Tomb, saw no hard evidence	The Doctor.	Mar 2012	#50
The FBI had Osama on its "10 Most Wanted" list	KansDem	May 2012	#189
duh	2Design	Mar 2012	#51
You all sound like freepers now.	Muskypundit	Mar 2012	#54
Did you even bother reading the OP	Hugabear	Mar 2012	#57
yes but some responses say that evidence is not necessary	Enrique	May 2012	#195
Thank you.	ieoeja	Mar 2012	#98
This message was self-deleted by its author	BelgianMadCow	Mar 2012	#114
the info about the money trail was redacted out of the commission report.	BelgianMadCow	Mar 2012	#115
This is ALL because Bob Kerry is running for the Senate Seat in NE..	BadGimp	Mar 2012	#56
anybody still believe that 9-11 (official version) was planned and controlled from a cave	KG	Mar 2012	#63
No	Rosa Luxemburg	May 2012	#217
What!?! Next they'll be saying that water is wet.	progressoid	Mar 2012	#64
The wrong country was invaded by the US.	Lint Head	Mar 2012	#65
If you might notice, mostly the US population are descendants of a kind of invader	nolabels	May 2012	#186
You don't say?! You mean since most of the hijackers were Saudi might mean something?	AllyCat	Mar 2012	#67
15 of the 19 attackers carried Saudi passports	KansDem	Mar 2012	#68
This is a no shit Sherlock, IMO.	tpsbmam	Mar 2012	#69
Duh? Ya think? Bush's best family friends & PNAC document?	loudsue	Mar 2012	#73
just because all of the hijackers were saudi?!?!	flexnor	Mar 2012	#74
K&R	raouldukelives	Mar 2012	#75
in the 10 years that have passed, it has never been denied that most hijackers were saudi	flexnor	Mar 2012	#76
Gee, dja think? Where are the 28 pages redacted from the 9/11 Commission report	librechik	Mar 2012	#78
No shit!	Odin2005	Mar 2012	#81
And Bob Graham ought to know.	sofa king	Mar 2012	#83
Ooh, there's some guts, Kerrey's running for office this year!	Major Hogwash	Mar 2012	#84
I wish they would have both done something sooner	DianaForRussFeingold	Mar 2012	#85
This is something that the Bush Crime Family	hifiguy	Mar 2012	#87
BREAKING NEWS! THIS JUST IN! STRONG EVIDENCE LINKING JAPAN TO ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR!	Uncle Joe	Mar 2012	#89
Most intelligent, informed people have known that for years.	appleannie1	Mar 2012	#90
And they were ALL ON THE PILL!!!	Myrina	Mar 2012	#91
Wasn't there wire transfers from one of the Royals to 2 of the hijackers that were fingered?	Old and In the Way	Mar 2012	#93
this just in from the "no shit, sherlock" desk..	frylock	Mar 2012	#95
Why wasn't the evidence pursued?	davidthegnome	Mar 2012	#96
This story pops today because ???	L. Coyote	Mar 2012	#97
Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award	rocktivity	Mar 2012	#99
Doesn't Saudi Arabian own Foxs News (Newscorp)	Rosa Luxemburg	Mar 2012	#106
Bob Graham was my state's governor	peace frog	Mar 2012	#100
Would Saudis be mentioned in the REDACTED parts of the 911 report? Oh my!	Festivito	Mar 2012	#101
alp227	Diclotican	Mar 2012	#102
I think it's follow the money	newspeak	Mar 2012	#123
newspeak	Diclotican	Mar 2012	#137
who did the put options before 9/11?	newspeak	May 2012	#209
kr	Norrin Radd	Mar 2012	#104
File that under "No Shit." nt	mistertrickster	Mar 2012	#108
Give it another decade - "I'm not a truther but the truthers were right about everything..."	saras	Mar 2012	#109
So what? It's not like anyone is going to do anything about it.	rhett o rick	Mar 2012	#110
This. End of thread.	closeupready	Mar 2012	#145
We have known this for a long time	underpants	Mar 2012	#112
well duh!!! nt	wildbilln864	Mar 2012	#113
Spam deleted by uppityperson (MIR Team)	asfghjtyk	Mar 2012	#118
Spam deleted by uppityperson (MIR Team)	asfghjtyk	Mar 2012	#119
Shocked....Not.	blackspade	Mar 2012	#126
Aschcroft letting the Bin Laudin family get away	lovuian	Mar 2012	#128
Why would the the Saudi government take part in a terrorist atttack on the United States?	cqo_000	Mar 2012	#129
To cater to their dissident extreme-fundamentalist-Islam Shia minority, who severely critique	patrice	Mar 2012	#131
I have a theory...not a fact.	Nambe	Mar 2012	#136
Bing-fracking-go!! on "... the strategic bombing of a civilian population" in more instances than	patrice	Mar 2012	#144
We need a real 911 investigation - the whole thing stinks.	grahamhgreen	Mar 2012	#132
9-11 Widows Issue Statement - Demand Answers	Nambe	Mar 2012	#135
Why was Airport Security not stepped up in the face of so many prior warnings?	Ian62	Mar 2012	#140
They stepped up security for themselves...	lutefisk	Mar 2012	#148
Quiet, please. We're supposed to be moving on. n/t	SomeGuyInEagan	Mar 2012	#150
kick! nt	wildbilln864	Mar 2012	#151
Duh.	aquart	Mar 2012	#152
Not LBN. We have known this since about 9/15/01	Devil_Fish	Mar 2012	#153
No shit! Duh! Fucking stupid idiots! We need them to tell us that??? WTF	L0oniX	Mar 2012	#154
Spam deleted by cbayer (MIR Team)	dfgrehe	Mar 2012	#155
The Truth Is Out There...	BadtotheboneBob	Mar 2012	#157
"May be?"	KansDem	Mar 2012	#160
I think Michael Moore pointed it out rather clearly in his	Cleita	Mar 2012	#165
The no shit, Dick Tracy file.	sarcasmo	Mar 2012	#166
Maybe that weapons bill passed last week can be used to for a group that can bring change to Saudi A	may3rd	May 2012	#167
we just made the biggest weapons deal ever, with Saudi Arabia	Enrique	May 2012	#171
The no shit Dick Tracy award.	sarcasmo	May 2012	#174
Well, it sure as hell wasn't anybody from Iraq...	MrMickeysMom	May 2012	#175
never a doubt in my mind since it happened	Demonaut	May 2012	#176
Ya think?	Autumn	May 2012	#178
In other news water is wet	nadinbrzezinski	May 2012	#190
Ya think?	Carolina	May 2012	#191
the "no shit" responses really bother me	Enrique	May 2012	#196
right! let's invade another country...	Charronxyz	May 2012	#203
This concludes today's test for outing the current batch of tax-paid disinformation agents...	nebenaube	May 2012	#205
KnR...Let this be the "thread that never dies."	KansDem	May 2012	#210
Good idea, to keep this alive.	elleng	May 2012	#213
So what else is new?	RebelOne	May 2012	#218
Salem bin Laden/Arbusto Oil Bush's failed oil company	Marthe48	May 2012	#220

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