If you think about it, however, the presence of so many Saudis of prominent background in the United States on September 11, some of whom were actually in Boston, and all of whom had to be flown out in a hurry to protect their own security, proves that the Saudi elites had absolutely no foreknowledge of 9-11. They would hardly leave their children in such a position if they had any knowledge that such an attack was going to occur.
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Blaming the wrong people diverts attention from the real guilty parties. As I've said before, the Saudis don't control NORAD, and since the standdown of normal air protection was crucial to the success of the 9-11 conspiracy, Americans ought to be looking much closer to home for the real culprits.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2004/06/saudi-connections-to-al-qaeda-not.htmlIt is believed that securing the oil fields of the Gulf region was the main factor that lit the spark of the Cold War and prompted the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. In the early 1950s the U.S. went as far as contemplating the possibility of destroying the oil fields in the event of a Soviet incursion.
As one declassified U.S. government document showed, the U.S. coordinated with the British government and British oil companies to blow up the oil fields in Iran and the Arabian Peninsula in the event of a Soviet invasion. To this end, President Harry Truman approved a plan to store explosives near the oil fields.
The plan was outlined in a National Security Council directive known as NSC 26/2. The U.S. considered even deploying radiological weapons to destroy the oil fields before the Soviets could seize them.
This latter option was rejected by the CIA because, according to NSC directive 26/3 dated June 1950, CIA officials noted: "Denial of the wells by radiological means can be accomplished to prevent an enemy from utilising the oil fields, but it could not prevent him from forcing "expendable" Arabs to enter contaminated areas to open well heads and deplete the reservoirs.
Therefore, aside from other effects on the Arab population, it is not considered that radiological means are practicable as a conservation measure." In addition, the U.S. needed to ensure the preservation of the resources for its own use after the expulsion of enemy forces.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/opinion.asp?ArticleID=90209Is Saddam the one who damaged the oilfields during the first Gulf War?
http://deoxy.org/wc/warcrime.htmhttp://deoxy.org/wc/wc-death.htm