Saudi Prince Blames 9/11 on USA »
Posted By Wil 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsSaudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan blamed al Qaeda's Sept. 11 attacks on the United States' failure to consult the kingdom's security authorities in a "serious and credible manner." US intelligence officials say the Saudis were uncooperative and did not share intelligence with them.
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Amazing11 year, 8 months ago
Does this mean that Prince Bandar also knows who profited from the stock market purchases?
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
No, this means that Prince Bandar (at least, according to him) KNEW about the upcoming 9/11 attack and DID NOT say anything to the US.
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augustine9741 year, 8 months ago
9/11 has been a great shot in the arm for making the rich richer, and the poor poorer...maybe that is why there was such a "failure of intellignece" all the way around. It's also created the imperial presidency and and an expansionist United States...both great things in this day of dwindling natural resources., we just take them.
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eugenegerard1 year, 8 months ago
If Bush had consulted Bandar he would have founf out that the Saudis, MI6 and rogue corporate groups financed Al Queda.
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Grrr1 year, 8 months ago
Like Cheney or his dad couldn't have told him, or rather, probably did.
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crghss1 year, 8 months ago
What the heck is a "rogue corporate groups" and why where they in Afghanistan?
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drunkenhunter1 year, 8 months ago
Remind me again why anyone thinks these bastards are allies? Oh yeah. Bush and Cheney and all their friends and relatives are getting paid. We have been sold out. Neo-cons have put a price on American lives and oil interests paid that price. So our soldiers are not being maimed for no reason. Neo-cons are being paid!
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AnteUp1 year, 8 months ago
drunkenhunter ~
It is true they WERE friends - that is what piques my
curiosity the most.............this is Bandar BUSH talking.
He was commonly refered to as Bandar Bush because of his
personal relationship with the Bush family. Oh so many
invites to the family compound - like a member of the
family! So now he is publically finding fault?
Leaving aside the insincerity of his comments - What gives with the relationship?
The insincerity is overwhelming if you recall our FBI
begging the Saudi's to let them question those arrested
by them - what? was it over the Cole? - and the Saudi's
wouldn't allow us to participate and eventually executed
them. I think it was when Louis Freeh was still head of the
FBI under Bush. So that kind of makes there offer of
assistance look a little suspect. I think they were a
bit more into covering up rather than sharing intell.
I think this public statement by Prince Bandar is odd.
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LordyLordy1 year, 8 months ago
drunkenhunter...I hate to inform you but you need to add hundreds and hundreds of Democrats to this list, not just Bush and Cheney.
Bush and Cheney have vested interests in this region. You understand their concern. They are oil men, whose companies not only found this oil, drilled the oil, and provided the investment to get it out of the ground. The communist or socialist view is that all the income then belongs to the Arabs, who had it not been for American oil companies, would still be riding their camels across the desert, in search of what? It is just the truth.
But the motivation I do not understand is that seemingly folks who derive no profit nor business interest continue these Neo-con posts? Someone is being paid and quite dearly to betray the USA? Follow the money. Michael Moore laughs his way to the bank every day...for his work of fiction.
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markoller1 year, 8 months ago
By allies are you talking about Saudi Arabia? Israel is our fake ally, but it is not nearly as contemptible as its American apologists. And it is no compliment to imply that the Israeli government and neocon conspirators represent most Jews.
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Rayman1 year, 8 months ago
This idiot Prince has a BIG mouth! Didn't the Saudi royals give money to Bin Laden and his network? We should have bombed the Saudi royal palaces instead of invading Iraq! Saudi Arabia is not our ally. Saudi royals are corupt and not trustworthy. They used us and the world to protect their 'black gold' in Gulf war I. They're allies of 'convinence'. They're scared to death of Al-Qaeda because it would strip them of their sick & spoiled lifestyles. The Saudis are still financing radical islamic movements throughout the Arab world.
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Jaydee401 year, 8 months ago
"They're allies of 'convinence'"
How is that any different than the US, they support anyone as long as it's in their best interest.
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vor1 year, 8 months ago
It isn't the top of royal Saud clan that is financing Al-Qaeda. It is the disgruntled underlings. Those in power desire no change. They live their fabulous lives without a care. Certainly Bandar is still communicating with the Bush's, particularly GH. But it does seem that the relationship is strained with GW. Maybe Bandar also sees him as GH's "ne'er do well son" as Reagan did. But that attachment does not extend to Cheney and the neocons. No Arab could look at that Zionist soaked agenda with much approval.
Nor should we forget that Bin Laden's original target was the Saudi Royal Family, not the US.
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AbuAmirah1 year, 8 months ago
I might be crazy, but why would the House of Saud give money to an organization that wants to 1)overthrow them and 2) try them as criminals against Islam for letting infidels have military bases in the land of the two holy shrines.
Call me crazy, but I don't see it
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idonttrustdemocratsanymore1 year, 8 months ago
A lot of people do blame Bill Clinton for 911 bcause he gutted our military and left us almost defenseless and because he missed so many opportunities to take out Osama bin Laden. In this regard, the prince may have a valid point.
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eugenegerard1 year, 8 months ago
You do know that Bill did not gut our military. If he did we would not have gone to war. Don't spread Neo-Con lies. Our military was one of the strongest forces on this planet til George Bush got his hands on it. This in no way is an endorsement of Clinton. Our gross national product has been geered for WWIII for over 50 years. This president has put us in harm's way by his criminal plundering of our treasury.
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djn3nunez31 year, 8 months ago
--A lot of people do blame Bill Clinton for 911 bcause he gutted our military
If you want to blame someone for the reduction of the military try Congress.
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Obaku1 year, 8 months ago
Now you are on the right track.
Put the pieces together - Bandar says the U.S. failed to ask in "a serious and credible manner", and Clarke says the Saudis were "uncooperative."
Suppose both of those points of view are true, subjectively.
What happened?
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saadhusain1 year, 8 months ago
All Bush had to do was read a Presidential Daily Briefind (PDB) that said Osama was intent on strinking within the US. But that would involve:
1. Bush reading
2. Attention diverted from plans for attacking Iraq
3. Why stop a crisi when you can make so much money or mileage of the crisis (911, Katrina, etc)
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AnteUp1 year, 8 months ago
saadhusain ~
How about the administration's first run-through of why
we were caught off-guard:
No one ever considered the possibility that planes
could be used to fly into buildings or populated areas
by terrorists...............
Per Richard Clarke - it was of major concern by the
Clinton administration - when? When the Summer Olympics
were being planned for Atlanta. Bush stopped that one
after Clarke's book came out. How stupid are we?
It was a feeler. They tried that excuse - it didn't
work - and they came up with alternates.
Why didn't the Right notice?
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
> All Bush had to do was read a Presidential Daily Briefind (PDB) that said Osama was intent on strinking within the US.
Do you have any idea how many such "Briefind"s (sic) say similar things about intentions of similar groups all over the world every day?
Do you beelive that Bush had to order the US military to bomb the hell out of Al Qaeda and Taliban WITHOUT ANY PROVOCATION??? Do you believe that Bush (or his successors) have to attack each and every place where a group of terrorists is hiding based on "Briefind" on their possible intentions?
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Bruedaddy1 year, 8 months ago
that;'s it in a nutshell.
it's rediculous how the blame women for their own lack of self control.
speaks to a F'ed up society if you ask me..
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Crossbow1 year, 8 months ago
Saudi Arabia is a good example of what happens when you try to straddle the fence. They are also an example of how the Republican Party has strayed from its conservative roots.
Now, it isn't necessarily a bad thing to acquire allies in this "war on terror." Certainly, the Saudis know the region better than we do and can help. The problem is that the USA doesn't seem to have enough of a backbone that is needed in order to make our allies feel comfortable helping us. This lack of a backbone is due in large part to the embarrasing activities in the Congress and Senate. How can we possibly expect our allies to help us defeat Al Queda if our political leaders are not willing to step up to the plate? We have asked our allies to support us, but we do not seem willing to reciprocate.
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PilotSmall1 year, 8 months ago
And I do seem to recall Prince Bandar being a guest at the Bush Ranch!
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StillUnashamed1 year, 8 months ago
In the article and all the comments I've read, no one has asked the question that immediatly came to my mind. If the Saudis were following the activities of the 9/11 hijackers does this mean the Saudis have a network of spies in the U.S.?
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AbuAmirah1 year, 8 months ago
The zionist entity does to, so what's your point? That's why its called foregin intelligence. Is America the only country allowed to have spies infiltrate other countries?
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markmawn21 year, 8 months ago
Them is fightin' words, especially since the only planes in the air on 911 after all flights were grounded was a plane loaded with Saudis. Perhaps he should direct his blame toward the stand down order, or Cheney, where it truly belongs. Or perhaps we should have shot that plane down.
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
As far as I recall there was no such plane. This is still another Arabian tale about the Bush-Jews-AlQaeda conspiracy.
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markoller1 year, 8 months ago
Why did no one mention the obvious, that our own government demolished the Twin Towers and the Salomon Brothers Building?
Perhaps the blind, deaf and dumb conspiracy deniers, will believe an agency of the United States government, but I doubt it. The Commerce Department sent an inquiry to NIST: "A Reprt on World Trade Center Bldgs 1 & 2: Request for Corrections by NIST for Its Invalid WTC Jetliner Animations and Analyses." Click http://science.propeller.com/story/2007/11/05/c...
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Crossbow1 year, 8 months ago
Oh, and now it really gets interesting that the conspiracy nuts have found this discussion.
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Jaydee401 year, 8 months ago
This foolishness only clouds the real facts of a cover up carried out on 9/11. One must ask them self why this type of stuff is out there and the one reason I can come up with is to discredit the many valid questions the remain unanswered about 9/11. A trick that has been used for many years to discredit dissenting voices it to have someone make up outlandish claims then anyone of similar ideas can publicly be written of as a nut. Don't you realize how many people saw and videoed the planes entering the twin towers, it would be impossible to fake all that footage. The towers were hit by planes and there's no way around it, the question is why were they allowed to do that?
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markoller1 year, 8 months ago
Since no one seems to be reading my link, it points out that the holes in the Twin Towers partially healed, after penetration, and flight 11 accelerated 76mph inside the tower.
I quote: "The assumptions concerning the laws of physics that are incorporated into the videos as seen, are simply based on impossible physics, rather like a "Road Runner" or "Tom & Jerry" cartoon. The analogy is both exact and obvious and should have been spotted. In addition, features like noiseless penetration of the towers despite noisy jet engines and other sounds on audio portions (screaming, etc.) prove fakery."
Click http://science.propeller.com/story/2007/11/05/c...
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
> In addition, features like noiseless penetration of the towers despite noisy jet engines and other sounds on audio portions (screaming, etc.) prove fakery."
Do you (or the authors of this nonsense) really believe that the US Government and the labs that, apparently, prepared this "fakery" are so incompetent that they "forgot" to add the sound of the jets?
Did you ever watch real "fakery" like professionally made in Hollywood action movies?
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Bruedaddy1 year, 8 months ago
while all the time preaching good morales and values from the pulpit.....
recently, yet ANOTHER REPUBLICAN busted for being a gay cross-dresser......
I don't want to hear anymore BS sermons from these ASS Holes.
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amitakon1 year, 8 months ago
Pete Doherty is like the Debbie Does Dallas of heroin addicts.
Video here
http://hyinia.info/video.php?Pete-Doherty-heroi...
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
> Most people on this planet are sickened by both sides, we have no compassion for people who use religion as a weapon of hate.
False. Most people on this planet are NOT Muslims. The minority ARE Muslims. We're facing a global conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims. Ignoring this fact will not make it disappear.
> The US is wrong to be half way around the world killing civilians for profit.
I'm not sure what you're talking about but the US already spent Trillions of dollars fighting Islamic mass murderers wh's strategy is to DELIBERATELY murder American, Israeli, British, Spanish civilians while using their own civilians as shields.
The problem with Islamist terrorism is that the violent minority (or so we would like to believe) is supported and cherished by the no-so-violent majority of Muslims that allow the terrorists to use their homes and villages as terrorist bases.
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