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The 9/11 Terrorists Were Mostly Saudi. Suicide Bombers In Iraq Are Saudi. And We’re Allies?

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 21 May 2005
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Saudi Arabia, Off The Hook
The 9/11 Terrorists Were Mostly Saudi. Suicide Bombers In Iraq Are Saudi. And We’re Allies?
Mark Morford
May 20, 2005

I am no foreign-policy expert. I am no virtuoso of nuanced and wicked international relations. I know not of intricate deal making and smarm sucking and backstabbing and glad handing and the Bushes raking in millions from clandestine oil deals with the Saudi kingdom. Ahem.

But this much I do know. This much is sickeningly, painfully obvious. We are, apparently, bombing the wrong country. Or rather, countries.

Iraq, as anyone paying even the scantest attention now knows, had zero to do with 9/11. Saddam and Osama? Hated each other. Iraq hiding massive Costco-size warehouses of WMDs, big nasty biotoxins and nuclear warheads and giant boxes of bitchin’ Red Devil firecrackers? A nasty joke, told by Bush, at Americans’ expense.

So what we are left with is a relatively obvious question, and it has an obvious answer, and it’s almost silly to bring it up because it’s just sort of sad and so deeply ironic and ridiculous you can’t even fully process it lest you begin to tear out your hair and scream obscenities at the wall, and anytime any image of Dubya appears anywhere in your purview your colon clenches and your blood boils and you can only think of gutting Karl Rove with a rusty pocketknife.

The obvious question is, if we are the Great Liberator, the great Crammer Down of Democratic Values, if we care so deeply about making ’Murka safer and granting the hot breath of stale freedom to the oppressed citizens of foreign nations whose leaders are abusing and oppressing and murdering them at will, why do we not bomb the living hell out of Saudi Arabia and call it a war?

Oh, I know. That’s just silly talk. That’s just blaspheming. I don’t actually mean it. But it certainly is a red-faced demon on obviousness, and it must be asked.

Do we need justification? Sanctimonious moral authority? More pseudo-Christian rationalization, besides the fact that we’ve known since a month after 9/11 that the vast majority of the WTC terrorists were Saudi? We’ve got plenty.

Did you know that Saudi Arabia treats its women one barely noticeable notch above that of the brutal Taliban? Saudi women cannot vote. They are not allowed to drive. They cannot be admitted to a hospital or examined by a doctor or travel abroad or leave the house without the express permission and/or company of an immediate male family member, and of course they must, at all times, be covered from head to toe in black sackcloth and if they dare venture outside or break the fashion code in any way they could very well be arrested and jailed indefinitely and beaten and even killed, no questions asked.

Political prisoners in Saudi Arabia are regularly tortured. Journalists are regularly arrested and persecuted and beaten for being too outspoken against the deeply repressed and closed kingdom. Human rights groups have been appalled by the oppressive and dictatorial Saudi society for years, perhaps no more so than following 9/11, when scrutiny was at an all-time high due to the obvious Saudi kingdom’s connections to al Qaeda and terrorism.

Oh yes, we know the kingdom pays millions to terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, to keep them from attacking their vulnerable oil fields, while at the same time investing billions — that’s billions — into the U.S. economy. Hell, a major Saudi delegation just passed through S.F. this past week, as part of a national tour, trying to ease terrorist tensions and drum up even more investment interest, despite their nation’s brutal, antihumanitarian regime. Isn’t that sweet?

We know of Prince Bandar’s close personal friendship with Dubya and who can forget that lovely scene in "Fahrenheit 9/11" where Dubya is giving Bandar a hot-oil back rub just after Bandar slipped a giant body bag full of gold bars and fried Texas pork rinds and a giant stack of Exxon baseball hats into Dubya’s luggage? Exactly.

It’s almost quaint, in a soul-crushing sort of way, how we know that Iraq is not our enemy. Or Afghanistan, for that matter. It is almost comical, really, how easily it could be argued that if we had an enemy, the single most problematic nation in the world right now, it might very well be Saudi Arabia, with their stranglehold on the world’s oil and their hot breeding ground for Islamic extremists, those everyday people so beaten down and so inflamed into violent action by oppression and by Bush’s vicious warmongering since 9/11 that they’re willing to strap explosives to their chests and walk into a crowded market and push the button.

What, don’t believe it? The Washington Post points it all out, right here, all about how a huge number of suicide bombers in Iraq are turning out to be mostly Saudi, and how both 9/11 and BushCo’s negligent and insidious actions in the increasingly volatile Middle East have created the most incredible hotbed for new and crude terrorists since Osama started a summer camp.

Ah, but it doesn’t really matter. Of course we won’t bomb Saudi Arabia. And of course I promote no such vicious and violent, hate-filled, Dick Cheney-grade agenda. Of course we won’t dare to apply the same bogus justification for insidious war against Iraq (that is, it’s now all about humanitarian reasons, ha ha snicker) to a deeply corrupt and dangerous "ally," one that provides us so much oil and raw cash it makes Dubya giggle and squeal, one that invests so many billions in American real estate and business it makes Bill Gates cry. The Saudi kingdom is, after all, just insidiously vital to the American economy.

And for such vitality, we happily ignore that they perpetuate more atrocities on their own citizens — especially the beaten and decimated women — than anyone since the Taliban, or Saddam, or Kim Jong Il. We happily ignore that their "kingdom" is one of the most corrupt and oppressive in the world. We happily turn away from how, more than any other nation, Saudi Arabia is providing the world with more extremist martyrs willing to blow themselves up for Allah, just to make their outrage heard.

And can we forget how the Saudis are deeply and happily involved with the Carlyle Group, a nasty clan of military-lovin’ fear-suckin’ venture capitalists overseen by none other that bastion of WASP mafia love, George Bush Sr.? Always a nice, bitter footnote.

Oh, I know. I don’t really understand foreign policy. I don’t really comprehend all the nuances and the power plays and the true color of the political sleaze involved. Neither, of course, do you. We are not supposed to understand. We are not supposed to look. We are told it is all just fabulously complicated and slippery and by the way we have no right to judge nasty oppressive Saudi culture. Which is, you know, true enough.

So let’s not judge. Let’s just sit up straight and face the facts and spit it out. Let’s just admit, once and for all, with zero prevarication and zero BS and zero BushCo squinting into the camera trying to look intelligent and articulate when he’s the most devastatingly small-minded leader since ever, let’s just say it is so straightforward and unvarnished that even the red states can understand.

Here it is: Bush could give a cold goddamn for all those tens of thousands of innocent dead Iraqis. This administration doesn’t care a whit for all the dead U.S. soldiers. Every move our nation now makes under the BushCo regime has just about nothing to do with securing our borders and protecting us from "terror" and ensuring our place in the gilded pantheon of humanitarian nations that just want to spread peace and prosperity for all peoples everywhere. What a gag.

We don’t give a crap for Iraqi freedom. We don’t care a whit for Afghan poverty or the huge increase in opium production or how that drug money is fueling the resurgence of the Taliban. This administration couldn’t give a thin dime for beaten Saudi women or oppressed Chinese dissidents or North Korean freedom fighters or the slaughtered masses in Darfur or Rwanda or anywhere else. This administration, in short, perhaps more than any in the past 100 years, cares nothing for human rights.

America now cares about one thing: empire. The rush to neoconservative power. And the perpetuation of fear as a means to securing that power for many years to come.

Obviously, we will never criticize Saudi Arabia. BushCo will never endanger our power, oil, empire. We have, as a nation, moved beyond hypocrisy, beyond savage irony. We are well into the pathological. And, given our sad, unfortunate leadership, it seems we can hope for little better.

Forum posts

  • Moreover the Bush family makes big money with Saudi Arabia. Americans wake up and kick Bush and his Republican Nazi party out of business.
    The Bush family did also business with Nazi Germany!

    • Israeli Zionist (not to be confused with Jews or normal Israeli’s) Mossad has attacked us in many places trying to frame other nations (usually Arab countries). The facts are out there, search and you will find. "OUR" government knows it and still allows these Zionist groups (with non-prosecuted spies)to have lobbyist and fund raisers in OUR government.

  • it works like this

    "American people please hate Saudi People, Saudi People please hate American people"

    "we hate you american infidels"

    "we hate you terrorist muslims"

    Down the Memory Hole: Carl Cameron’s TV story of 9-11 COMPLICIT Israeli Spy Ring in U.S.

    First it was poor journalism for FOX to entirely purge the story from their websites. Then it was found they even purged it from THEIR OFFICIAL ARCHIVES. Something interesting in the news here worth looking at, I say.

    Then, FOX threatened various other areas like the website whatreallyhappened.com to remove it!

    "...far more telling is the admission made by a US Official (in part one) quoted in the Fox News report that hard evidence exists linking 9/11 not to Arab Muslims, but to some of the 200+ Israeli spies arrested both before and after 9/11, however, this Israeli=911 evidence had been CLASSIFIED."

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    "Investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying ... is considered career suicide."

    Carl Cameron, as quoted in The Spies Who Came In From The Art Sale

    http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/04/1733293.php

  • In light of the fact that at least five of the FBI-identified "Saudi hijackers" turned up quite alive and quite angry that they were accused of taking part in the 911 attacks, pointing out quite vociferously that they were victims of identity theft, it is irresponsible for Morford to continue to spread the disinformation that Saudis participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and crashed the plane in Pennsylvania. The simple fact of the matter, disregarding the official government spin, is that no one knows who was flying those planes, except the actual perpetrators of the attacks, if there was anyone flying them in the first place.

  • Leaving aside for the moment that a number of Saudi hijackers have turned up alive and well — and thus showing some possible identity theft...

    Aliances are at a different level then the mere public to public.

    It is all too appropriate for the American public to hate the Saudis and vice verse.

    You need not think past your obese as*es. As long as it is confortable — is all that counts.

  • http://www.vaticanassassins.org/bushladen.htm

    Yuck!

    • Well geesh yukky, why not sneak clinton in that tree too

      "absolute power corrupts absolutely"

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    • Osama bin Laden was immediately blamed for the 9/11 attacks even though he had no previous record of doing anything on this scale. Immediately after the Flight 11 hit World Trade Center 1
      CIA Director George Tenet said "You know, this has bin Laden’s fingerprints all over it."

      How would he know that? Because it’s ALL a lie from the start. Laden denied to BBC he had anything to do with this and then all of a sudden tapes alledging to be him show up. Most of the men listed as terrorist are alive and well and had nothing to do with it. Tapes at the airport have been messed with and the men are wearing clothes that airport personal disagree with, even the times have been altered and very obvious (you’d think with all the money they get they’d done a better job), The evil Arabs left their car in such an easy spot to find at a BIG INTERNATIONAL airport with the Koran in it, a passport survives a massive explosion and lands in a easily seen spot, etc, etc, etc.

      Zionist lobby groups in America spy on our government get caught and nothing happens to them. The amount of our senators, cabinet members, judges, and congressmen that are dual national with Israel (I do not object to foreigners, but they should not be in our government, you can not be loyal to 2 masters) is criminal.

      Saudi’s are not our problem. Our lying government, media, and the Zionist groups contrroling our government is our problem

  • I found this article interesting, so I decided to comment on it. I am An American working as a nurse in Saudi Arabia for the last 5 years. The Saudi Arabia described in the above article seems to come from another planet to say the least. Any reader of the article would get a dreary picture of a country that has very nice and kind people I have ever met.

    According to my personal experience as well as many Americans working with me in Saudi Arabia, the picture of Saudi Arabia in the article is not totally true. One more thing, who will benefit from declaring war on Saudi Arabia? Us or them ? I guess we don’t, as Americans, understand the culture of Saudis, and we somehow overlook that Millions of Muslims around the world have great respect to Saudi Arabia as a holy place. I guess the answer to my question is that we both will be big losers.

    Assuming that the 9/11 Terrorists Were Mostly Saudis, why shall we judge governments and societies, and punish them for individual acts? I have seen great job done by Saudis fighting terrorism, and I think they have suffered great deal of it as we did, but jumping to conclusions based on a hazy picture will do no good to us in the USA.

  • The shock of the "Bush family and their Nazi ties" has gotten old. Joe Kennedy was sympathetic to the Nazi cause and so were plenty of Americans at the time, let’s not kid ourselves. Why do you think FDR never declared war on Germany directly? It’s only after WWII was historicized that the full villainy of Hitler and his henchmen became known. Also, the Saudi connections with the Bush family—not all that shocking. Ever since FDR the US has had a cast iron agreement with the kingdom to ensure the free flow of oil. GHWB’s close ties to the kingdom have been a saving grace when oil lines have run thin. If Iran embargoes its oil, who will raise output to keep the world from global depression? Saudi Arabia. Realpolitik. It’s not the greatest arrangement in the world, but it keeps Americans living the American way of life. Too many people in the US forget that.

  • A nickels worth of free advice on September 11, 2001: We will never know the entire story, so speculating will only add to the frustration. Let the dead rest in peace. Trying to pin blame on the Saudi’s is almost as unreliable as the official story. Hypothetically, if we wrote off the Saudi Arabia, we would be surrendering our hegemonic position in the world and I don’t believe anyone wants that. One might have magnanimous ideas about right and wrong, but the world is a cruel place and the US must exist in this difficult atmosphere. The modus vivendi that our leaders have struck has given us the best quality of life on earth. There may be some shady details and strange characters surrounding September 11 and other situations in international relations vis-a-vis the US and the world at large. No one said that they are angels. Madison once said men wouldn’t need government if they were angels. He had a good point.

  • Those wonderful people who tried to terrorize the entire world—and made all the little girlie-Bushies shit their pants—with "IRAQ HAS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION" are the same people who brought us "THE 9/11 TERRORISTS WERE MOSTLY SAUDI" and "OSAMA BIN LADEN DID IT!" The official Government li(n)es have always been insulting to anyone with any hint of being able to think for themselves. The following should strike fear in the hearts of every right-wing radical girlie-Bush for the rest of their lives.........because all the world knows, except for the dumb and dumber Americans, that 9/11 was perpetrated by the present American Government:

    EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! CAVEMAN COMBAT KILLS!

    A caveman from the other side of the world penetrated the greatest strategic military and intelligence defenses the world has ever known and slaughtered more than 3,000 people on our own soil with only 20 recruits!

    WOW!

    If that’s true, then we’re all in big trouble, people, and in order to survive, we must get rid of present failed leadership, eliminate the lies and liars—the traitors—among us and help our patriots kill the caveman, and elect wise and brave and truthful patriots to lead us.

    If that’s not true, then we’re all in BIG trouble, people, and in order to survive, we must get rid of present failed leadership, expose and kill the leadership that killed our 3,000 people and eliminate the lies and liars—the traitors—among us, and elect wise and brave and truthful patriots to lead us.

    If a caveman from the other side of the world penetrated the greatest strategic military and intelligence defenses the world has ever known and slaughtered more than 3,000 people on our own soil with only 20 recruits, imagine what a modern foreign military force of 2 million recruits would do: With present failed leadership, a modern foreign military force of 2 million recruits would wipe out our entire American population of 300 million!

    A once revered and honored war leader assured us long ago, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” so present failed leadership prioritized, categorized and colorized all our fears for us – but how do we know who and what to fear the most first? Should it be:

    A caveman from the other side of the world who penetrated the greatest strategic military and intelligence defenses the world has ever known and slaughtered more than 3,000 people on our own soil with only 20 recruits?—OR the modern foreign military force of 2 million recruits that would wipe out our entire American population of 300 million?—OR present failed leadership that allowed a caveman from the other side of the world to penetrate the greatest strategic military and intelligence defenses the world has ever known and slaughter more than 3,000 people on our own soil with only 20 recruits.

    Wake up and wise up, people!
    Stop believing lies and liars!
    Stop fearing those who fear us!
    Stop honoring cowards who dishonor us!
    Stop defending leaders who fail to defend us!
    Stop excusing failures of present failed leadership!
    Stop enabling hypocrites who worship only mammon!

    When the sentry at his post falls asleep and his squad or platoon are attacked, then if that sentry survives the attack, the sentry is subject to court martial and a firing squad for falling asleep while on duty. No matter how the story is told, George ’Doh’bya Bush was either asleep at his post on 911 or he aided and abetted the most heinous crime in American History. Either way, this creature should be brought to Justice! There are millions in America who would willingly be a part of the firing squad for the sentry in the White House who either fell asleep at his post or committed the worst kinds of treachery. Then we would go on down the chain of command until someone would be willing to accept responsibility without snickering.

    ANY QUESTIONS, GIRLIE-BUSHIES?