Osama bin Laden's father was direct friends with the House of Saud, the royal family. His businesses made the bin Ladens the second richest family in Saudi Arabia after only the royal family.
The bin Ladens were also close acquaintances, friends one might say, with a certain George H W Bush and his son George W Bush, both who went on to be president.
So when the Atlantic acts like this is new information or a surprise... "to who" is my question. Who is surprised? I've known of Saudis involvement for, well, basically since 9/11. When you learn that Bush secured safe flights out of the country for bin Laden family members in the US after the attacks, it's a very short rabbit hole to "oh, this motherfucker WAS FRIENDS with the guy's family who just did this massive attack. THATS FUCKING ODD"
This is part of the "Bush did 9/11" conspiracy theory which I don't fully believe, but it's safe to say ,imo, that the Bushes did 9/11 as in H W set the conditions necessary as CIA director and then twice VP for a man with advanced dementia and then president himself for one term. Decades of combined time in extreme high positions of governmental power on top of being an oil man. Then his son becomes president and whammo blammo the perfect situation just magically materializes that allows W to enact the most insane dreams of his father.
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Osama bin Laden's father was direct friends with the House of Saud, the royal family. His businesses made the bin Ladens the second richest family in Saudi Arabia after only the royal family.
The bin Ladens were also close acquaintances, friends one might say, with a certain George H W Bush and his son George W Bush, both who went on to be president.
So when the Atlantic acts like this is new information or a surprise... "to who" is my question. Who is surprised? I've known of Saudis involvement for, well, basically since 9/11. When you learn that Bush secured safe flights out of the country for bin Laden family members in the US after the attacks, it's a very short rabbit hole to "oh, this motherfucker WAS FRIENDS with the guy's family who just did this massive attack. THATS FUCKING ODD"
This is part of the "Bush did 9/11" conspiracy theory which I don't fully believe, but it's safe to say ,imo, that the Bushes did 9/11 as in H W set the conditions necessary as CIA director and then twice VP for a man with advanced dementia and then president himself for one term. Decades of combined time in extreme high positions of governmental power on top of being an oil man. Then his son becomes president and whammo blammo the perfect situation just magically materializes that allows W to enact the most insane dreams of his father.