• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    The Taliban tried to give America Osama Bin Laden but they wanted something in exchange, so they invaded and suffered 20 years of war over such audacious demands.

    The thing about Al-Qaeda and 9/11 is that it was always a Saudi operation.

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        8 hours ago

        The 9/11 attacks done by Al-Qaeda were Saudi. Al-Qaeda itself is a bit different, right, but I meant strictly in the context of the US invading Afghanistan and ousting the Taliban.

        So ‘the Al-Qaeda operation of 9/11 was Saudi’ would be a more accurate way to put it.

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          7 hours ago

          Al Qaeda’s primary goal is to overthrow the Saudi government and install a caliph in Medina. Why would Saudi Arabia be involved with a terrorist group whose goal is the destruction of the state they run?

          The notion that the leaders of Saudi Arabia would be involved with Al Qaeda overlooks that really important fact. That’s why the claim has never been true.

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            7 hours ago

            In a strict legalist sense, yes. There is no direct connection with the governing Saudi monarchy and the operations of islamist organization Al-Qaeda. That is absolutely correct.

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              7 hours ago

              No, in any sense. When you start looking at the claims the closest you get is a wife of Bandahar Al Saud potentially writing a check maybe which is very far from the Saudis supporting Al Qaeda

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                7 hours ago

                Right. In the same way the King bears responsibility for the assassination of Kashoggi because he was King and it happened under his reign. Not because he had anything directly to do with it.

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                  6 hours ago

                  That’s a false equivalence.

                  To be clear your claim is untrue and relies on not understanding anything about Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda, or any of their actions.

                  While some people from Saudi Arabia are involved in Al Qaeda the government itself is not supporting a group looking to overthrow it. That would be really stupid.

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                    5 hours ago

                    Sure, as this dynamic is of a similar nature as the relationship between explicit anti-government organizations like the Oath Keepers and the American government.