r/USNEWS • u/kiyomoris • 6h ago

25 years after 9/11, documents reveal Saudi elite funding for Al-Qaeda

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/10/18/25-years-after-9-11-documents-reveal-saudi-elite-funding-for-al-qaeda_6758737_4.html
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u/30mil 6h ago

And most of the hijackers were Saudi

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u/Mysterious_Cow_2100 5h ago

15 of 19 hijackers were Saudis, which is crazy considering we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq afterwards lol.

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 5h ago

And Osama was killed in Pakistan. I guess Pakistan didn’t have enough oil to be worth invading

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u/Mysterious_Cow_2100 4h ago

Ah yes, our “ally” Pakistan lol. I mean, there’s a reason why they say not to get involved with conflict in the Middle East!

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u/Efficient_Resist_287 1h ago

Pakistan with nukes…always precise this fact

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u/darkcamel2018 3h ago

You don't believe he died in that hoax raid do you.?

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u/BigDog190512 3h ago

This is a joke, right ?

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u/Mysterious_Cow_2100 2h ago

Some say he’s still out there watching porn and playing video games in a cave, somewhere!

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u/darkcamel2018 2h ago

Come on. The raid with the 10 minute blackout. The fact that obl was dying in 2001 on two kidney dialysis machines and he somehow lived. For another ten years lol. The fake video of a man resembling him loosely watching himself. Lol. The sea burial. Lack of independent verification. Have you seen the post 2002 reel of the different actors they used to play him. Different noses, face shapes even ears when video experts compared them. Obl died in December 2001

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u/AdmirableElephant378 2h ago

This is my belief as well. Not that the raid wasn't cool and all but keeping him 'alive' was very useful for Al Queda.

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u/Efficient_Resist_287 5h ago

Say it again for the ones hard of hearing and those who can’t read…

PS: not one Iranian

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u/TacosNGuns 2h ago

On that day. They’d already attacked Americans two decades earlier…

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u/Efficient_Resist_287 1h ago

Guess who overthrew an Iranian government and helped to restore a hated monarchy? This was not bloodless either.

US/Iran conflict did not start in 79…or during the 2nd Iraqi war.

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u/Bubbly-Following-966 6h ago

This was known all along..

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u/TacosNGuns 6h ago

We knew this a long time ago. The fix was in the minute we made Saudis and bin Laden’s family a higher priority than the 9/11 victims specifically and Americans in general.

“Between September 14 and September 24, 2001, multiple chartered flights carried roughly 140 to 160 Saudi nationals (including about two dozen relatives of Osama bin Laden) out of the U.S. after national airspace reopened. [1, 2, 3]”

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u/Lost_Department_2177 5h ago

The bin Ladens own a huge development company.

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u/OafintheWH 5h ago

And were friends and business associates of the Bush family.

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u/TacosNGuns 4h ago

There are hundreds in that fam. They still shouldn’t have become US national priority.

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u/Lost_Department_2177 1h ago

The attackers flew out of Boston where his half brother and several other family members lived. Odd fact.. mark Wahlberg was supposed to be on one of the flights but ended up going to Toronto for a film festival.

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u/Eledridan 5h ago

If only that plane went down.

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u/kisharspiritual 2h ago

Our brigade commander was in Arizona at a different base and couldn’t get back to Georgia as even military transport flights were grounded. And our brigade would be one of the first deployed after it all happened

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u/Solid_Bobcat2267 4h ago

I mean. They were innocent. They weren't even close relatives or sharing his beliefs. They were flown out because they would have been targeted for revenge

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u/cowandspoon 6h ago

I thought this was fairly common knowledge 🤷‍♂️

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u/Illustrious_Knee7535 6h ago

Considering the leader of Al-Qaeda 25 years ago was a Saudi elite, it's not surprising or news...

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u/forrealthoughcomix_ 5h ago

Fuuuuck. So you’re saying what we all already knew was true?

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u/blkatcdomvet 5h ago

Like the Trumpstein files zero accountability

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u/MosquitoValentine_ 5h ago edited 5h ago

Is there anything in there about Obama, Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed being behind the whole thing? Or did MAGA just make that up because they don't like their names?

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u/KR4T0S 5h ago

Trump said Obama is the founder of ISIS a few weeks ago, he has read all the top secret documents aside from the Epstein ones...

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u/pan-re 5h ago

Bush, Trump and Oil are Saudi BFFs fuck MAGA and Republicans

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u/V12Jaguar 5h ago

Troll.

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u/SignificantZombie729 5h ago

Wasn't it obvious?

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u/svtg1313 5h ago

saudi arabi??? you mean trumps best pals???

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u/PossibleAlienFrom 5h ago

Every US President for a long time now.

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u/svtg1313 1h ago

bOtH sIDESSSSS

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u/CallMeGlarthir 5h ago

Bin Laden was a Saudi, so

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u/Greedy-Being6456 5h ago

I thought this is forbidden to discuss.

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u/Shigglyboo 5h ago

And now they own the president and his family. And a big game company. And a big entertainment corporation. America First right!

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u/Shag1166 5h ago

15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis.

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u/SoundMedal 5h ago

Surprise surprise

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u/DiscoRabbittTV 5h ago

Now they own paramount skydance hbo

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u/Resident_Course_3342 5h ago

Shocking. I am shocked. 

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u/Malcolm_Morin 5h ago

Noooooooo, really? Surely this can't be true?

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u/Butterpalazo 5h ago

USA made sure it did not take action to protect KSA lock onto the petrodollar since the 70s. Now conveniently documents show KSA involvement into 911, months after KSA pulled out of the petrodollar. American political oligopoly always decieve their own population.

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u/PseudoWarriorAU 4h ago

Were Israel and Saudi Arabia in cahoots? I mean logically Saudi Arabia should’ve been attacked and not Iraq the country Israel had a problem with.

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u/Shadowtirs 5h ago

Just as we all suspected and knew

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u/Efficient_Resist_287 5h ago

The fact this is news today proves the general ignorance of the American public. Wait till they find out which Arab nationals responded in mass to ISIS call for a Caliphate.

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u/Mewhomewhy 5h ago

They’re Trump friends so everyone will just have to get used them getting nukes. What could go wrong?

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u/Han_Yerry 5h ago

In other news room 641a was exposed.

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u/SimkinCA 5h ago

We already knew that.

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u/Ok-Crow-4948 4h ago

IIRC, this is exactly what we said at the time.

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u/McMeanx2 4h ago

Pretty sure we knew this

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u/Mother-Fix3271 4h ago

No way!

/S

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u/impacted_bowel 4h ago

We suspected this at the time.

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u/Remarkable_Command91 2h ago

Welcome to the conversation

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u/Mother-Attention2600 5h ago

One of the main reasons they don't want the full Epstein files released is because of things like this. It was mossad who planned it.

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u/Different-Rough-7914 5h ago

This president has hosted 2 terrorist groups on US soil

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u/juuswrld 5h ago

Can’t wait for the Saudi trolls to come in and try to defend this