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2018-08-04 Arabia
Bin Laden ‘deliberately’ wanted to tarnish Saudi-US relations
[ARABNEWS] the late Osama bin Laden
... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...
, the world’s former most wanted man for terrorism charges, was set on using Saudi citizens to destroy relations between the west and the east, according to officials in Riyadh, London and Washington DC.

"There is no doubt that he deliberately chose Saudi citizens for the 9/11 plot," a British intelligence officer told British daily the Guardian.

The intelligence officer said that Bin Laden "was convinced" that he was going to turn the west against Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
The former head of Saudi intelligence between 1977 and September 1, 2001, Prince Turki al-Faisal, also said his intelligence agency knew that something "spectacular" was about to happen to the Americans, British, French and Arabs just months before 9/11, the report said.

According to the prince, the al-Qaeda leader had developed a political attitude in 1990 when he wanted to evict the communists from South Yemen. This happened after Bin Laden travelled to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet occupation.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
according to Bin Laden’s mother, Alia Ghanem, he was a shy boy who was academically capable and only became radicalised in his early 20s while studying in university.

Speaking for the first time, she told the Guardian that he was brainwashed at university.

While at university, Bin Laden met Abdullah Azzam who was a member of the Moslem Brüderbund. Azzam became Bin Laden’s spiritual adviser after he exiled from Saudi Arabia.

Posted by Fred 2018-08-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda 

#1 Where he went wrong. You can't polish a turd...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-08-04 00:48||   2018-08-04 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Breaking news from 2001.
Posted by charger 2018-08-04 13:27||   2018-08-04 13:27|| Front Page Top

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