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Originally posted by legalspeed
OBL is out for us because he thought Saudi Arabia should have kicked Iraq out of Kuwait.
Saudi Arabia's reaction to OBL: "Yeah, right! Pound sand."
That pissed him off. |
I don't understand, didn't SA provide staging for UN operations during Desert Storm?
I've read the transcripts of the OBL tapes and it seems that the justification for 9/11 came from a perceived backing of Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Perceived because yes, the U.S. has provided military support to Israel over the years, but it seems that we were trying to help negotiate the removal of the israelis from lebanon, at least from what I've read (I was 2 at the time, so I have to rely on historians).
It's really hard for me to process all the information about Muslim/Jewish conflict and U.S. involvement, there's just so many conflicting accounts of the last 50 years.