The 20 year anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq. What are your thoughts all these years later?

[basquebromance]

ex-Qatari PM Hamad Bin Jasem: Iraq needs a mercyful dictator like Saddam again

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Iraq had nothing to do with nine eleven. It was funded by saudi arabia who bush viewed as our closest middle eastern ally.

This funding by Saudi Arabia is crap

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The upper brash of the American government seemingly allow the looting to take place in iraq . And it was as ugly as it gets all of that history the history of Mesopotamia, the thousands of years of the history of Babylon all looted by BLM type criminals

BLM?


You need psychiatric help!

 

[beautress]

Iraq had nothing to do with nine eleven. It was funded by saudi arabia who bush viewed as our closest middle eastern ally.

Saddam Hussein gave shelter to the Taliban who were led by Obama sin Laden, Oops, I mean Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden helped mastermind taking out the WTC, the Pentagon, etc, and the one whose pilot slammed one of the planes into a Pennsylvania field was allegedly going for the Capitol Buildings in DC.

Al Qaeda turned against Saudi Arabia. There's a refresher course here about who did what when, and it is not in accordance that Saudi Arabia wished evil on America, just the opposite: Taliban and Osama Bin Laden Facts, Worksheets & Al Qaeda For Kids

Taliban, Pashto Ṭālebān (“Students”) is an ultraconservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the collapse of Afghanistan’s communist regime, and the subsequent breakdown in civil order.​

​

THE TALIBAN​

• The Taliban was an organized force for social order created in 1994 in Kandahār. It quickly subdued the local warlords who controlled the south of the country. From south-western Afghanistan, they extended their influence.
• In September, 1995 they captured the province of Herat, bordering Iran. One year later, they captured Kabul and overthrew the regime of President Burhanuddin Rabbani, one of the founding fathers of the Afghan mujahideen.
• By 1998, Taliban control over Afghanistan was almost 90%.
• Initially welcomed by the Afghan citizens, their social order soon used violent punishments such as public executions of convicted murderers and adulterers, and amputations for those found guilty of theft.
• Women were also excluded from public life such as employment and education.
• They were also required to wear the all-covering burqa while men had to grow beards.
• Soon, the Taliban banned television, music, and cinema, and disapproved of girls aged 10 and over going to school.
• They were then accused of various human rights and cultural abuses such as the destruction of non-Islamic artistic relics despite public outrage.
• The Taliban opened Afghanistan for Islamic militants from throughout the world, including an exiled Saudi Arabian, Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
• Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, they refused to extradite bin Laden to the United States.
• In response to the terrorist attack, a US-led military coalition invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.
• By the first week of December the Taliban regime had collapsed. However, the Taliban head Mullah Mohammad Omar and other senior figures evaded capture.

Continued....​

• They reportedly took refuge in the Pakistani city of Quetta, from where they guided the Taliban.
• To continue their cause, the Taliban funded themselves through their opium trade.
• Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar continued to direct the insurgency but in July 2015 the Afghan government discovered that he had died in 2013 in a Pakistani hospital.
• Mullah Akhtar Mansour, his successor, was killed in a US air strike in Pakistan in May 2016 and was replaced by his deputy Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.
• Their attacks continued which prompted Afghanistan’s central government to seek reconciliation with the Taliban, thinking the US-installed regime was illegal.
• The Taliban and the United States began meeting in 2018, focusing on the latter withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan.
• On February 2020, The Taliban signed an agreement with the central government to prevent al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; also called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria [ISIS]) from operating in Afghanistan.
• Osama bin Laden was 17th of 52 siblings born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957 or 1958.
• His father, Mohammed bin Laden, was a Yemeni immigrant who owned the largest construction company in the Saudi kingdom.
• He went to school in Jiddah, married young and joined the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, shaping his Islamic political and religious beliefs.
• In the late 1970s, Osama became a follower of Abdullah Azzam. He believed that all Muslims should rise up in jihad, or holy war, to create a single Islamic state.
• This idea appealed to bin Laden and he began to resent the growing Western influence on Middle Eastern life.
• When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Azzam and bin Laden joined the resistance by funding and winning moral support for the mujahideen (Afghan rebels).
• In 1988, bin Laden created al Qaeda (“the base”) that would focus on symbolic acts of terrorism solely against the Western countries, continuously influencing his Islamic culture in the Middle East.
• The Saudi government was threatened by his extremist belief, hence they took away his passport and turned down his offer to send “Afghan Arabs” to guard the border after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
• Disgruntled, he left the country and embraced violent jihad. Al Qaeda struck for the first time in 1991: a bomb exploded in a hotel in Aden, Yemen.

AL QAEDA’S TERRORISM​

• 1993 – al Qaeda trained and armed the Somali rebels who killed 18 American servicemen in Mogadishu.
• 1993 – bombing of New York’s World Trade Center.
• 1995 – attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarek.
• 1996 – the bombing of a US National Guard training center in Riyadh; truck bomb that destroyed the Khobar Towers, an American military residence in Dharan.
• 1998-bombs exploded simultaneously at the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, where 224 people were killed and 4,585 were injured.
• 2000 – Bombing of USS Cole, an American naval destroyer docked off the coast of Yemen. 17 sailors were killed and 38 were injured.
• September 11, 2001 – attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
• He continued in hiding for the next ten years but America’s CIA endeavoured a manhunt and on May 2, 2011, he was shot and killed.
• His son, Hamza bin Laden, who was a potential successor to the al Qaeda leader, was killed in a US counterterrorism operation in September 2019.

The Saudi Arabians ousted Osama bin Laden before Al Qaeda's cells who used American passenger liners to destroy the WTC and much of the Pentagon.

Happy reading as there is more on the link none of which support the Saudi Arabia bad narrative. Love, beautress

​

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Saddam Hussein gave shelter to the Taliban who were led by Obama sin Laden, Oops, I mean Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden helped mastermind taking out the WTC, the Pentagon, etc, and the one whose pilot slammed one of the planes into a Pennsylvania field was allegedly going for the Capitol Buildings in DC.

Al Qaeda turned against Saudi Arabia. There's a refresher course here about who did what when, and it is not in accordance that Saudi Arabia wished evil on America, just the opposite: Taliban and Osama Bin Laden Facts, Worksheets & Al Qaeda For Kids

Taliban, Pashto Ṭālebān (“Students”) is an ultraconservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the collapse of Afghanistan’s communist regime, and the subsequent breakdown in civil order.​

​

THE TALIBAN​

• The Taliban was an organized force for social order created in 1994 in Kandahār. It quickly subdued the local warlords who controlled the south of the country. From south-western Afghanistan, they extended their influence.
• In September, 1995 they captured the province of Herat, bordering Iran. One year later, they captured Kabul and overthrew the regime of President Burhanuddin Rabbani, one of the founding fathers of the Afghan mujahideen.
• By 1998, Taliban control over Afghanistan was almost 90%.
• Initially welcomed by the Afghan citizens, their social order soon used violent punishments such as public executions of convicted murderers and adulterers, and amputations for those found guilty of theft.
• Women were also excluded from public life such as employment and education.
• They were also required to wear the all-covering burqa while men had to grow beards.
• Soon, the Taliban banned television, music, and cinema, and disapproved of girls aged 10 and over going to school.
• They were then accused of various human rights and cultural abuses such as the destruction of non-Islamic artistic relics despite public outrage.
• The Taliban opened Afghanistan for Islamic militants from throughout the world, including an exiled Saudi Arabian, Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
• Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, they refused to extradite bin Laden to the United States.
• In response to the terrorist attack, a US-led military coalition invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.
• By the first week of December the Taliban regime had collapsed. However, the Taliban head Mullah Mohammad Omar and other senior figures evaded capture.

Continued....​

• They reportedly took refuge in the Pakistani city of Quetta, from where they guided the Taliban.
• To continue their cause, the Taliban funded themselves through their opium trade.
• Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar continued to direct the insurgency but in July 2015 the Afghan government discovered that he had died in 2013 in a Pakistani hospital.
• Mullah Akhtar Mansour, his successor, was killed in a US air strike in Pakistan in May 2016 and was replaced by his deputy Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.
• Their attacks continued which prompted Afghanistan’s central government to seek reconciliation with the Taliban, thinking the US-installed regime was illegal.
• The Taliban and the United States began meeting in 2018, focusing on the latter withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan.
• On February 2020, The Taliban signed an agreement with the central government to prevent al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; also called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria [ISIS]) from operating in Afghanistan.
• Osama bin Laden was 17th of 52 siblings born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957 or 1958.
• His father, Mohammed bin Laden, was a Yemeni immigrant who owned the largest construction company in the Saudi kingdom.
• He went to school in Jiddah, married young and joined the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, shaping his Islamic political and religious beliefs.
• In the late 1970s, Osama became a follower of Abdullah Azzam. He believed that all Muslims should rise up in jihad, or holy war, to create a single Islamic state.
• This idea appealed to bin Laden and he began to resent the growing Western influence on Middle Eastern life.
• When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Azzam and bin Laden joined the resistance by funding and winning moral support for the mujahideen (Afghan rebels).
• In 1988, bin Laden created al Qaeda (“the base”) that would focus on symbolic acts of terrorism solely against the Western countries, continuously influencing his Islamic culture in the Middle East.
• The Saudi government was threatened by his extremist belief, hence they took away his passport and turned down his offer to send “Afghan Arabs” to guard the border after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
• Disgruntled, he left the country and embraced violent jihad. Al Qaeda struck for the first time in 1991: a bomb exploded in a hotel in Aden, Yemen.

AL QAEDA’S TERRORISM​

• 1993 – al Qaeda trained and armed the Somali rebels who killed 18 American servicemen in Mogadishu.
• 1993 – bombing of New York’s World Trade Center.
• 1995 – attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarek.
• 1996 – the bombing of a US National Guard training center in Riyadh; truck bomb that destroyed the Khobar Towers, an American military residence in Dharan.
• 1998-bombs exploded simultaneously at the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, where 224 people were killed and 4,585 were injured.
• 2000 – Bombing of USS Cole, an American naval destroyer docked off the coast of Yemen. 17 sailors were killed and 38 were injured.
• September 11, 2001 – attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
• He continued in hiding for the next ten years but America’s CIA endeavoured a manhunt and on May 2, 2011, he was shot and killed.
• His son, Hamza bin Laden, who was a potential successor to the al Qaeda leader, was killed in a US counterterrorism operation in September 2019.

The Saudi Arabians ousted Osama bin Laden before Al Qaeda's cells who used American passenger liners to destroy the WTC and much of the Pentagon.

Happy reading as there is more on the link none of which support the Saudi Arabia bad narrative. Love, beautress

​

The Taliban were never in Iraq. They were the group that gave refuge to Bin Laden, as he did not create them. Can't you read your own sources?

 

[beautress]

The Taliban were never in Iraq. They were the group that gave refuge to Bin Laden, as he did not create them. Can't you read your own sources?

Sheltering an international criminal fugitive does not only mean giving them a place to stay. Can't you ever realize many words have more than one meanings.

Hussein operated his country like a criminal enterprise including rape rooms, using womds (sarin gas) on entire villiages of people who were Iraq's citizens for as many generations as all other Iraquis, etc. I read Clinton's State Department Head, Madeline Albright's brilliant investigative findings on why Americans should never go to Iraq because it would be too dangerous for Americans to go there. Hussein hated America because after WWII, we supported the 1948 Israeli takeback of their own land by opportunists who either killed Hebrews with torture that goes far beyond what the United Nations accepts, or murdered their kin in 10 different horrific ways.. If one person in an Iraqui village protested its bad treatment, Hussein was there with his order to kill all of them, and since poison was the easiest path to that hell, they used the worst ones that had the longest afterlife to kill anyone going through that village months later. That kind of poison is a WOMD. That Saddam Hussein used WOMDs on his own people was not just a popular phrase, it was the truth.

And the next time you want to scorch the earth under someone with ten times the maturity and intelligence quotient as you, use m-w.com. dictionary and thesaurus source; and an ordinary high-school literature book, Mr. or Ms. High and Mighty.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Sheltering an international criminal fugitive does not only mean giving them a place to stay. Can't you ever realize many words have more than one meanings.

Hussein operated his country like a criminal enterprise including rape rooms, using womds (sarin gas) on entire villiages of people who were Iraq's citizens for as many generations as all other Iraquis, etc. I read Clinton's State Department Head, Madeline Albright's brilliant investigative findings on why Americans should never go to Iraq because it would be too dangerous for Americans to go there. Hussein hated America because after WWII, we supported the 1948 Israeli takeback of their own land by opportunists who either killed Hebrews with torture that goes far beyond what the United Nations accepts, or murdered their kin in 10 different horrific ways.. If one person in an Iraqui village protested its bad treatment, Hussein was there with his order to kill all of them, and since poison was the easiest path to that hell, they used the worst ones that had the longest afterlife to kill anyone going through that village months later. That kind of poison is a WOMD. That Saddam Hussein used WOMDs on his own people was not just a popular phrase, it was the truth.

And the next time you want to scorch the earth under someone with ten times the maturity and intelligence quotient as you, use m-w.com. dictionary and thesaurus source; and an ordinary high-school literature book, Mr. or Ms. High and Mighty.

You are a fucking looney tune. I only disagreed with the highlighted text with which you were grossly wrong. Put me on ignore and you won't have to be corrected in your stupid assumptions.

 

[beautress]

The Taliban were never in Iraq. They were the group that gave refuge to Bin Laden, as he did not create them. Can't you read your own sources?

My sources back in the 90s were having read both Secretary of State Madeline Albright notes on Middle Eastern countries included the frequent interactions of Saddam Hussein with Al Qaeda and the Taliban included hosting terrorists across the board in Iraq. I also read Secretary of State Dr. Condoleeza Rice's notes of groups of terrorists linking together to party over damaging American citizens they hated. Saddam welcomed all terrorists to hide out in Iraq, and he attacked countries in the Middle East who did not pitch in and terrorize American citizens living and working over there. I have a clear recollection that both secretary of states were constantly in touch with the terrorist groups there and their interadtions. You said: "The Taliban were never in Iraq." Oh, yes they were, and frequently too. They partied together as the Twin Towers were falling. I don't remember everything about everything, but the Taliban and Al Qaeda had on-and-off times together and apart, but when their common enemy was us, the celebrated our nation's tragedy of losing thousands of Americans on 9/11. they punished the Pentagon, too. Saddam took care of his Terrorist brethren every chance he got. Saddam Hussein also had his fellow haters to assassinate a sitting President of the United States in the years before the Iraq war.

Saddam and the Taliban

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on June 29, 2015 In examining the Saddam Hussein regime’s long relationship with al-Qaeda, a noticeable sub-theme is the connections the Saddam regime had with the…

kyleorton.co.uk

I don't know if the Secretary of State Albright's warnings to Americans visiting Iraq and Afghanistan and those of Secretary of State Dr. Rice's papers on the Middle East countries are available, or I'd search them out. The Muslim brothers didn't need much of a formal invitation to go visit their fellow terrorists. I'm pretty sure it isn't quite the same today.
I have a habit of putting gross sexual language users on ignore. Women who have suffered rape and hearing someone say f-you have a right not to think about it by belligerant bullspeakers. Why should she feel sick at her stomach when she hears gross sexual epithets when it is totally unnecessary on a discussion board.

 

[Mac-7]

I wish we had listened to the french

 

[lennypartiv]

The fries were delicious back then.

 

[surada]

Saddam had to go.

It APPEARS that Saddam intentionally created and maintained the illusion that he had vast caches of WMD's, in order to frighten Iran so that they wouldn't invade and overwhelm Iraq militarily. It never even occurred to Bush and our crew that he could do something so tremendously stupid, so we believed his deception. And that was the basic reason for the invasion.

"We" failed to recognize that other cultures are not like us. In our minds, we were going in to modernize Iraq and bring it into the 21st century, culturally, technologically, and legally. But they did not share our vision. Hence, the mission was an utter failure. We spent incalculable money trying to save them from themselves. Totally wasted.

This was the Media's first major conspiratorial lie. They told "us" that Bush lied about WMD's. They knew this was false, but it remains the prevailing belief. Now we know that the Media are corrupt, and don't trust them about most major stories.

Operation Mass Appeal began selling the Iraq war in 1998. Clean Break Strategy from the mid 1990s influenced the PNAC calling for war on Iraq and Syria.

 

[surada]

I wish we had listened to the french

The French always have the best intelligence on the Middle East.

 

[Ringo]

 

[Captain Caveman]

Here was an excellent morning discussion on the 20 year anniversary of the United States led invasion of Iraq. All sorts of informative calls from fellow American citizens on the very issue


“Viewers commented on a question concerning the 20th anniversary of former President George W. Bush declaring the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the start of the seven-year U.S. war in Iraq: “What is the legacy of that war?”

Washington Journal: News Headlines and Viewer Calls

Viewers commented on a question concerning the 20th anniversary of former President George W. Bush declaring the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the start of the seven-year U.S. war in Iraq: "What is the legacy of that war?"

www.c-span.org

I was just a young kid when this invasion had occurred in March 2003…. operation “shock and awe”




and it was a very interesting thing remembering it I was thinking why is this happening what is the deal with this man Saddam Hussein but more than that what about the proud people of Iraq what about them what about these Arabs what about these proud Arab Christians and Arab Muslims. Is he that’s one thing before 2003 12% of Iraq was Christian now something like 4% of the country is Christian. before 2003 the second in command of Iraq the number to most powerful man was a Catholic Tarik Aziz…. where is the Christian leader ship in Iraq now.? Critics have said that Iraq is very much influenced or even controlled by the Islamic Republic of Iran something that is very ugly it certainly is not good for proud Arab women.

This is one of the last outlet’s of journalistic integrity in America which is Washington journal on C-SPAN. Where American citizens can call into the program and provide their opinion. You just don’t see that on CNN, Fox News or MSNBC.

My thoughts on the 20 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and the legacy of the Iraq war is first of all I stand by the United States military and by President George W. Bush. We as Americans we have freedom of speech that folks don’t have that in other countries of the world. But we have that in America at least for now. And I believe in supporting the office of the presidency just like it was during the Vietnam war when you had even Vietnam veterans who disagreed with the war but who fought because they were drafted and because they felt it was their duty.

I go back to the Iraq Iran war. I think that the United States should have supported Iraq more to crush Iran. Iran is a country that forces women to cover their hair has all sorts of sexist laws. They are problematic but they weren’t like that during the days of the shah. obviously we had the Iran contra affair I get this that was only for about four months during the Iran Iraq war and Ronald Reagan issued an apology to the Iraqi people for that episode.

One thing that stands out about this war is that Iraq was all alone…. they had no support from China no support from Russia that would’ve been a game changer if that support had occurred. Iraq did get some support from Arab volunteers across the Arab world but that hails in comparison to $100 billion in international military support for example. The hypocrisy of the international media between now and then is crystal clear.

To the other side of the argument one might say that the world is better off without the Ba’ath party of Iraq. But that is certainly very much debatable…. on the flipside you have ISIL and the terrorism brutality this was probably the worst state in the history of the world ….perhaps second to the third Reich. For a couple of years the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant were throwing people into fires, they were feeding men to sharks in pools literally, ISIL would put men in a cage three or four of them and then drown them to death in a suburban swimming pool, they would Put men into a car and then blow the car up. They would chainsaw peoples heads off …. they executed Christians in mass…. basically anything you could think of from a violent video game ISIL did…. ISIL even had their own modified version of the video game “ Grandtheft auto“…which word attempt to recruit young gamers over to the cause of ISIL.

Of course after 2003 and also during the initial invasion you had dead Americans you had dead Iraqis. There was anywhere from 300,000 to 1,000,000 dead Iraqis due to the war in Iraq. Not to mention the tens of thousands of American soldiers who were injured…. some of whom suffered horrific spinal cord injuries , neck injuries they had their legs blown off their arms blown off many of these men these brave American soldiers are in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives. They can’t have sex they can’t even use the bathroom on their own piano that is something that words cannot really describe.

But it’s not just ISIL. Here’s a question we as Americans can ask today. What is the purpose of The state of Iraq …. A country which of the United States poured trillions of dollars into and countless American lives over 3200 American lives and again tens of thousands of injured soldiers. So where does Iraq stand today is it actually an ally of the United States? , or is it more so an ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran? which chants of death to America.

Finally what will the future of Iraq be ? will it actually remain a technical ally of the United States or will it become closer toward Iran? I think this is perhaps the most important question. Iraq has quite a bit of natural resources of course much oil.

My thoughts. Middle East countries work better on dictatorships, removing Saddam Hussein flushed the extremists onto every other nation. In those 20 years, 2 war mongers (Bush and Blair) have wandered the planet free.

 

[Lesh]

Iraq was a Republican fuck up from start to finish.

And Republican voters were in lockstep with it. They claim not to have been but they are lying

 

[surada]

My thoughts. Middle East countries work better on dictatorships, removing Saddam Hussein flushed the extremists onto every other nation. In those 20 years, 2 war mongers (Bush and Blair) have wandered the planet free.

Iraq was crippled by 2 decades of war and sanctions. Blair set up Operation Mass Appeal in 1998 . See Clean Break Strategy.

 

[surada]

Papa Bush shooed them out of Kuwait. He didn't invade Iraq.

 

[surada]

Saddam Hussein gave shelter to the Taliban who were led by Obama sin Laden, Oops, I mean Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden helped mastermind taking out the WTC, the Pentagon, etc, and the one whose pilot slammed one of the planes into a Pennsylvania field was allegedly going for the Capitol Buildings in DC.

Al Qaeda turned against Saudi Arabia. There's a refresher course here about who did what when, and it is not in accordance that Saudi Arabia wished evil on America, just the opposite: Taliban and Osama Bin Laden Facts, Worksheets & Al Qaeda For Kids

Taliban, Pashto Ṭālebān (“Students”) is an ultraconservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the collapse of Afghanistan’s communist regime, and the subsequent breakdown in civil order.​

​

THE TALIBAN​

• The Taliban was an organized force for social order created in 1994 in Kandahār. It quickly subdued the local warlords who controlled the south of the country. From south-western Afghanistan, they extended their influence.
• In September, 1995 they captured the province of Herat, bordering Iran. One year later, they captured Kabul and overthrew the regime of President Burhanuddin Rabbani, one of the founding fathers of the Afghan mujahideen.
• By 1998, Taliban control over Afghanistan was almost 90%.
• Initially welcomed by the Afghan citizens, their social order soon used violent punishments such as public executions of convicted murderers and adulterers, and amputations for those found guilty of theft.
• Women were also excluded from public life such as employment and education.
• They were also required to wear the all-covering burqa while men had to grow beards.
• Soon, the Taliban banned television, music, and cinema, and disapproved of girls aged 10 and over going to school.
• They were then accused of various human rights and cultural abuses such as the destruction of non-Islamic artistic relics despite public outrage.
• The Taliban opened Afghanistan for Islamic militants from throughout the world, including an exiled Saudi Arabian, Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
• Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, they refused to extradite bin Laden to the United States.
• In response to the terrorist attack, a US-led military coalition invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.
• By the first week of December the Taliban regime had collapsed. However, the Taliban head Mullah Mohammad Omar and other senior figures evaded capture.

Continued....​

• They reportedly took refuge in the Pakistani city of Quetta, from where they guided the Taliban.
• To continue their cause, the Taliban funded themselves through their opium trade.
• Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar continued to direct the insurgency but in July 2015 the Afghan government discovered that he had died in 2013 in a Pakistani hospital.
• Mullah Akhtar Mansour, his successor, was killed in a US air strike in Pakistan in May 2016 and was replaced by his deputy Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.
• Their attacks continued which prompted Afghanistan’s central government to seek reconciliation with the Taliban, thinking the US-installed regime was illegal.
• The Taliban and the United States began meeting in 2018, focusing on the latter withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan.
• On February 2020, The Taliban signed an agreement with the central government to prevent al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; also called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria [ISIS]) from operating in Afghanistan.
• Osama bin Laden was 17th of 52 siblings born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957 or 1958.
• His father, Mohammed bin Laden, was a Yemeni immigrant who owned the largest construction company in the Saudi kingdom.
• He went to school in Jiddah, married young and joined the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, shaping his Islamic political and religious beliefs.
• In the late 1970s, Osama became a follower of Abdullah Azzam. He believed that all Muslims should rise up in jihad, or holy war, to create a single Islamic state.
• This idea appealed to bin Laden and he began to resent the growing Western influence on Middle Eastern life.
• When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Azzam and bin Laden joined the resistance by funding and winning moral support for the mujahideen (Afghan rebels).
• In 1988, bin Laden created al Qaeda (“the base”) that would focus on symbolic acts of terrorism solely against the Western countries, continuously influencing his Islamic culture in the Middle East.
• The Saudi government was threatened by his extremist belief, hence they took away his passport and turned down his offer to send “Afghan Arabs” to guard the border after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
• Disgruntled, he left the country and embraced violent jihad. Al Qaeda struck for the first time in 1991: a bomb exploded in a hotel in Aden, Yemen.

AL QAEDA’S TERRORISM​

• 1993 – al Qaeda trained and armed the Somali rebels who killed 18 American servicemen in Mogadishu.
• 1993 – bombing of New York’s World Trade Center.
• 1995 – attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarek.
• 1996 – the bombing of a US National Guard training center in Riyadh; truck bomb that destroyed the Khobar Towers, an American military residence in Dharan.
• 1998-bombs exploded simultaneously at the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, where 224 people were killed and 4,585 were injured.
• 2000 – Bombing of USS Cole, an American naval destroyer docked off the coast of Yemen. 17 sailors were killed and 38 were injured.
• September 11, 2001 – attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
• He continued in hiding for the next ten years but America’s CIA endeavoured a manhunt and on May 2, 2011, he was shot and killed.
• His son, Hamza bin Laden, who was a potential successor to the al Qaeda leader, was killed in a US counterterrorism operation in September 2019.

The Saudi Arabians ousted Osama bin Laden before Al Qaeda's cells who used American passenger liners to destroy the WTC and much of the Pentagon.

Happy reading as there is more on the link none of which support the Saudi Arabia bad narrative. Love, beautress

​

Muslim Brotherhood has been banned in Arabia since 1972.

Saudi Arabia revoked OBL's citizenship in 1994. He hated them.

OBL went to Afghanistan in 1988 to build roads.

 

[sparky]

None of what we think is <right> will be ~S~

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

"Biden was VP in an administration that escalated ended the war in Iraq."

So ISIS didn't count?