Who Was Really Behind 9/11?

Who Was Really Behind 9/11?

By Eric Margolis
Information Clearing House
September 16, 2019

A large number of Americans still don’t believe the official version
of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

I am one of them.

The government and tame media version – that crazed Muslims
directed by Osama bin Laden attacked New York’s twin towers
and the Pentagon because they hated ‘our freedoms’ and our
religions – is wearing very thin as contrary evidence piles up.

Ever since the attacks, I’ve held the belief that neither bin Laden
nor Afghanistan’s Taliban were involved, though bin Laden did
applaud the attacks after the fact and remains a key suspect.

Unfortunately, he was murdered by a US hit squad instead of being
brought to the US to stand trial.

Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, was adamant that bin Laden was
not behind the attacks.

So who did it?

In my view, the attacks were financed by private citizens in Saudi
Arabia and organized from Germany and possibly Spain.

All the hijackers came from states nominally allied to the US or its
protectorates.

Fifteen of the 19 were Saudis.

Two came from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and one each
from Egypt and Lebanon.

Amazingly, during the national uproar after the attacks, little
attention was focused on Saudi Arabia, a key US ally (or
protectorate) even though most of the hijackers were Saudi
citizens, and a planeload of important Saudis were quietly
ushered out of the US by the CIA soon after the attacks.

Saudi Arabia was too important to US domination of the Mideast
to point any fingers at the Saudis.

The Saudi royal regime in Riyadh did not appear to have been
involved – why would it since their survival and gravy train
depended on US protection?

But the royal regime does not represent all Saudis,
as many people believe.

Saudi Arabia is a collection of tribes played off against one another
by Riyadh and kept in line by the US Air Force from its bases in
Saudi and a tribal force, ‘the white army,’ led by American ‘advisors.’

Saudi Arabia has little in the way of a regular army because its
rulers fear coups by the armed forces such as occurred in Egypt,
Iraq and Syria.

In addition, over 40,000 Americans live and work in Saudi.

Another 5,000 US military personnel are stationed there.

Much of the kingdom’s technology – banking, telecommunications,
airports and flights, trains, military affairs, TV and radio – are
supervised by foreigners.

This process began in the 1920’s when the British moved into
Arabia and helped promote the Saudi tribe to prominence.

A sizeable Yemeni community lives in Saudi.

The bin Laden family originally hailed from Yemen.

Saudi also has an important Shia Muslim minority, about 20%
of the population, with smaller numbers of other Muslim sects.

Most important, the reactionary, ultra rigid Wahabi religious
sect still dominates the nation and royal family.

The Wahabis hate Shia, calling them apostates and heretics.

A similar dim view is taken of the nine million foreign workers,
principally Indians, Pakistanis and other South Asians, who do
all of the Kingdom’s dirty work.

Within the complexities of Saudi Society lie bitterly anti-western
groups who see the nation as being militarily occupied by the US
and exploited – even pillaged – by foreigners.

Arabia was originally the holy land of Islam.

Today, it has been westernized, occupied by US military power,
and given marching orders by Washington.

While covering the Afghan War in the 1980’s, I met Sheikh Abdullah
Azzam, a fiery nationalist leader and anti-communist who was bin
Laden’s teacher and spiritual mentor.

“When we succeed in kicking the Russians out of Afghanistan,”
Azzam told me, “we will go on and kick the Americans out of
Saudi Arabia.”

I was shocked, never having heard of Americans called ‘occupiers’.

Azzam was murdered by a bomb soon after, but his words kept
ringing in my ears.

He thought of the Americans as much colonialists as the Soviets.

Private nationalist groups in Saudi who bitterly opposed foreign
domination of their country could very well have financed and
organized 9/11.

But, of course, Washington could not admit this.

That would have brought into question the US occupation of Saudi.

What’s also pretty clear is that Israel – at minimum – knew the
attack was coming yet failed to warn its American ‘allies.’

Israel was the chief beneficiary of the 9/11 attacks – yet its
bumbling Arab foes and bin Laden were blamed for this crime.

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