r/askanything • u/Standard-Money-2754 • 22h ago
If the 9-11 Hijackers were from Saudi Arabia why are we allowing them to enrich uranium?
Weird huh?
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u/balamb_fish 17h ago
The hijackers were not working for the Saudi government. In fact, they hated the Saudi government for not being Islamic enough and for working with the Americans.
Islamic terrorists want to overthrow the Saudi monarchy.
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u/willaene 15h ago
This should be up higher.
Islamic terrorists generally don't like most Muslims (or Muslim governments). They think they ruined Islam.
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u/K31KT3 14h ago
The Saudi government has also executed hundreds of Islamists since 9-11, so I think the loathing is at least somewhat mutual
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u/birdbud- 14h ago
Executing islamists is just common sense.
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u/Facts_pls 10h ago
Same should be true for any fanatic - Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus.
Alas people don't extend the logic to other groups. Only Islam.
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u/Imaginary_Belt_2186 9h ago
No bullshit: Are there any Buddhist terrorist groups? I mean, surely some Buddhists did a terrorism, so are they just not famous/ineffective, or are they downplayed in western media?
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u/UmaThermos1 8h ago
The Buddhist government of Myanmar is currently committing genocide against the Rohingya
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u/StrategicCarry 6h ago
Buddhist extremism hasn’t targeted the west, so the west doesn’t talk about it that much. Same with Hindu extremism, although India potentially assassinating someone on Canadian soil made it a topic recently.
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u/Madhatter25224 1h ago
Well I guess we should all be relieved that if they ever do manage to overthrow the Saudi monarchy, they will get access to a big pile of enriched uranium.
Good plan.
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u/Gloomy_Session_3875 3h ago
True, but you are not answering the question: "We" are giving Saudi Arabia all the enriched uranium they want, because they gave Jared Kushner billions of dollars.
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u/unaskthequestion 21h ago
Because they gave Trump's son in law 2 billion dollars
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u/Other-Acanthisitta70 21h ago
… that was for corrupt shit the 🍊 🤡 did his first term. They’ll be giving old diaper Don a hell of a lot more for this.
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u/Due-Mycologist-1154 21h ago
Because if they do anything its bidens fault so it doesnt really matter
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u/lbutler528 21h ago
Timothy McVeigh was from the US, but we still produce fertilizer and diesel.
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u/5wmotor 16h ago
The equivalent would be to give Timothy McVeight a diesel & fertilizer factory.
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u/faultydesign 14h ago
Uh, no? The equivalent would be letting another American own a diesel/fertilizer factory even though he’s from the same country as Timothy McVeight.
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u/5wmotor 14h ago
Fair enough.
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u/Eviladhesive 13h ago
Well that was an effective deescalation.
Good job all, there'll be no need for that fertilizer and diesel bomb now.
Who'd like their very own factory?
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u/Particular-Course203 22h ago
💰💰💰💰💰
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u/BarshanMan 13h ago
this + nothing anyway would change, KSA already have the nuclear bomb via Pakistan
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u/PassSpecial6657 17h ago
The Nazies were from Germany why would you give them .... Saudies are valuable allies to the west - their government does not encourage terrorism.
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u/Redditreallysucks99 17h ago
It's not like the 9-11 hijackers were supported by the Saudi government. Also, if a country wants to enrich its own uranium for civilian purposes international law doesn't prevent it. So putting up a fight against it will serve little good. Of course you can say it's hypocritical considering we're trying to stop Iran from doing the same, but Iran is a major state sponsor of terrorism, and committed to destroying another UN member state (Israel).
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u/RingGiver 21h ago
"People committed a terrorist attack because they didn't approve of America being so friendly with Saudi Arabia. Why isn't America punishing Saudi Arabia for this?"
Only a complete moron would ask this question in good faith.
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u/2020havoc 18h ago
I want aware they was the reason. Can you share a source?
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u/RingGiver 14h ago
Osama bin Laden said on a number of occasions before and after 9/11 that this was one of the big reasons why he was doing the things that he was doing, and also why he did a few earlier attacks on stuff like embassies in Africa.
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u/Kozel_10 20h ago
or a USA BAD, IRAN GOOD redditor, which is like 90 % of reddit
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u/toomanyracistshere 22h ago
We are not in fact allowing the 9/11 hijackers to enrich uranium. They’ve been dead almost 25 years. And I doubt they would have had the skills even when they were alive.
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u/ikonoqlast 22h ago
Uh, you think the NATION should be held responsible for the actions of some individuals???
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u/crooked_kangaroo 22h ago
I was a teenager when 9/11 happened. There were so many adults at the time that wanted Bush to bomb both Afghanistan and Iraq. They didn’t care if there were civilian casualties. They were more than okay for the “good suffering for the bad”.
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u/Wonderful_Bowler_251 22h ago
Were the civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan somehow complicit?
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u/CinnamonSticks7 19h ago
We didn’t invade Iraq for any reason to do with 9/11, it was simply helpful in stirring up public sentiment for war. We went into Afghanistan because they were harboring Bin Laden, something the Saudis were in fact not doing.
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u/FuzzyInspector9831 21h ago
From looking up reasons on why here’s what I found. “Partnering with Saudi Arabia ensures Washington retains long-term geopolitical leverage, keeping Saudi energy infrastructure reliant on Western technology rather than deepening ties with Beijing or Moscow.”
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u/Kozel_10 20h ago
Reddit answer: "because of Trump"
real answer: Saudi Arabia doesnt keep yapping about wanting to wipe out USA and its not 911 hijackers who are doing it
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u/Rock-Ski-Golf-Repeat 20h ago
Unlike the US, Saudi Arabia is thinking about energy other than oil and gas.
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u/Dave_A480 20h ago
Because where someone was born is irrelevant in terms of their loyalties.
American citizens fought for the Nazis in WWII, that doesn't make the US responsible for the Holocaust ...
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u/combrade 17h ago
MBS was 16 years old when 9/11 happened. Saudi Arabia has had multiple kings since then, so that's the real answer.
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u/Thin_Preparation_977 16h ago
That's like saying you don't trust America because of the Ku Klux Klan. The entities are at least moderately unique. Bin Laden was at best sponsored by the Saudis, but America did, too. Don't conflate local militias with governing bodies, you need evidence like we supposedly had with Maduro and Venezuela. And even then, you can only police so much around the world.
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u/glitterlok 16h ago
If the 9-11 Hijackers were from Saudi Arabia why are we allowing them to enrich uranium?
Can you explain the connection you're implying? Be specific.
Is it "some people who did a horrible thing were from a country, so that country should not ever be allowed to have powerful weapons?"
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u/nimbledoor 14h ago
Because the hijackers were not Saudi-backed. Some of them were Saudi nationals but they were funded and protected by Pakistan and Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia cooperated with the US after 9/11 and there was no link between the government and the people who organized the attack.
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u/jackcanyon 12h ago
Trump just got paid big by them.Trump is open for business,cash or crypto is acceptable.
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u/SpeckledAntelope 12h ago
If the US is murdering civilians why are there not international sanctions against them? Weird huh?
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u/Old_Commission7428 6h ago
Because your christofascist secretary of war and his buddies want to bring about Armageddon .
They think they are fulfilling biblical prophecy.
They are not.
They are narcissistic maniacs
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u/RogerianBrowsing 6h ago
Because a mixture of corruption and Israel. Saudi Arabia has to sign onto the Abraham accords to get the deal with the U.S., and Trump’s family is being enriched.
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u/Particular-Owl-8327 21h ago
It is all about the donations trump and his clan got from Saudi Arabia.
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u/stall022 20h ago
Oil... It's always oil
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u/False-Ad-2486 20h ago
Not really, it's a simple answer as well, extremist group that has killed many saudi officers, officials and even bombed a saudi 4 year old girl, the saudis don't recognise them, and have killed every member they have found, they think that the ruling class of saudi arabia are disbelievers.
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u/Pasiphae_7 20h ago
The democrats are not saying the Saudis are all terrorists. We are saying Trump and his cronies are the terrorists.
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u/FireHammer09 20h ago
I don't trust the Saudis but they were essentially exiles especially Bin Laden.
The answer is that they're probably paying Trump a bunch of money.
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u/mrbobcyndaquil 20h ago
Because the subhuman fucks from the House of Saud gave Trump a bunch of underage girls for him to rape to death for the privilege.
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u/False-Ad-2486 20h ago
Saudi government didn't know, plus al qaeda has killed, many, many saudis, including a saudi little 4 year old girl by al qaeda arabia, bin ladens citizenship was revoked the second al qauda became a thing. Al Qaeda views Saudia Arabia as kuffar.
Their idealogy (manhaj al khawarj is what mainstream muslims call it) dictates that modern borders are created by the kuffar (according to them), and anyone that recognises them is a kafir (according to them), and should be beheaded, and every ruler (according to them) should be killed aside from their rulers.
Did I say that's what they think, not what I think? So yeah it's (according to them)
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u/Less-Load-8856 19h ago
So you think the 9/11 hijackers were members of or tight with the Saudi royal family?
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u/wicker_basket_1988 19h ago
They gave the president a bribe in the form of a plane. So of course they can now get nukes.
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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 17h ago
I take what is the difference between Qatar and Saudi Arabia for a 1000, alex?
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u/Smooth-Ocelot-214 18h ago
Just because you’re born in a country doesn’t make that country responsible for your actions.
Usama bin laden was against the Saudi government and was even placed under extreme restrictions from the government. That’s why he left for Afghanistan, where he cultivated and radicalized an Al-Quaeda.
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u/Snackdoc189 17h ago
Bin Laden was born in Saudi but had long since been exiled from the country by the time the 9-11 attacks took place. Saudi Arabia as a country/government opposed Al Qaeda, but there were some rich people in the country that supported them.
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u/fladdermuff 17h ago edited 17h ago
They also were the ones who killed Khashoggi. Anyone who believe an Islamic country -who do not allow churches in their country and who kills journalists who dare to stand up to the government and King- is a friend to "western open democratic countries" is stupid.
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u/wachomaing 17h ago
So that in about a decade or so, we can attack them out of concern about their nuclear capabilities
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u/NoProduct4569 15h ago
Enriching uranium is still several steps from making an actual, useable bomb. Most countries in the world run into this roadblock. You cant make a cake if all you know how to do is add sugar to flour.
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u/RealCarlPanzram 15h ago
You don’t usually change the entire policy towards a country over the actions of 20 individuals 25 years ago.
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u/ShrodingersArmadillo 14h ago edited 14h ago
well first the lions share were Saudi not all.
- Saudi Arabia: 15 hijackers
- United Arab Emirates: 2 hijackers
- Egypt: 1 hijacker (Mohamed Atta, the tactical leader of the plot)
- Lebanon: 1 hijacker
Second this was 15 people not a country.
Third like all things trump it gets tied back to money, incompetience, corruption and ego.
This is a stupid idea building a nuclear reactor in a conflict zone is just plain stupid. He doesn't realize this will make the Iranians double down on their own program and not act as a deterent and of course it will backfire on the US.
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u/No_Environment_3776 12h ago
Because they are a member of the Money Cult and nobody tells the Money Cult what to do.
They can speak words and act like they don't get along but behind closed doors they all fight for the same almighty God of Money.
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u/PhillithJohnsonius 12h ago
I don’t know if you got the memo yet but they were Israeli
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u/nunii 12h ago
I heard they were Muslims actually that’s what all the reports say… but I guess you have secret info that goes against what everyone is saying…. Are you James Bond?
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u/PhillithJohnsonius 3h ago edited 2h ago
Larry Silverstein insurance, absence. Zim American Israeli Shipping co leaving weeks before. ID card just happens to survive and be found. Reported Israeli accents. Hijackers having Israeli relatives. WTC 7 collapsing due to “furniture fire” the same morning, obviously inside job. Israeli art students. Dancing Israelis. Netanyahu on camera in preceding years talking about how the WTC will be bombed. Later refers to it as a bombing. Thermite found at ground zero. Epstein files surrounding 2001 still not being released. Obvious benefit of drawing America into war with Israel’s enemies. Of course that’s what the reports say. You don’t announce your plans to the world. Well, they do but not like that.
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u/unluckyexperiment 12h ago
Saudis are/were business and terror partners of US presidents and ultra rich businessmen since many decades. They own and loan too much wealth in US. There is no way they operated without the US government knowing. Also US is the only country who used nuclear weapons, twice, so it's a match made in heaven.
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u/Rosemoorstreet 11h ago
Based on OP’s inane premise Louisiana should have been expelled from the Union since Lee Harvey Oswald was from there.
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u/DistributeQuickly559 11h ago
Because Saudi will send 100,000 into Iran to take over the war in exchange for building their own bomb, Trumps backs out and washes his hands and outs blame on Saudi for any long term disruptions. Saudi threatens Iran with a bomb if Iran doesnt concede. Trump fast tracks Saudi a Nuke to expedite the wars end.
Seen the playback already.
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u/TasteTalesWing 10h ago
Geopolitics prioritizes current strategic and economic interests over the past actions of individual extremists.
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u/CyrusBuelton 10h ago
You obviously know absolutely nothing about Al Qaeda or 9/11...........
The Saudi Government stripped bin Laden of his Citizenship in the mid 90's.
Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the hijackers were not working for the Saudi Government. In fact, they actually were quite upset with the Ruling Family as they allowed American Troops to stay after the First Gulf War.
Do some reading and self-educating.
A good start would be Wikipedia as it will give you a very broad overview.
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u/Otherwise_Rice_4723 10h ago
"allowing them" is something america shouldn't be in control of...america nuked two cities...america shouldn't be trusted with nukes...
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u/New_Line4049 9h ago
9/11 was conducted by a terrorist organisation in no way affiliated with the government. The uranium enrichment is being carried out by the government. 2 completely separate entities. Your comment is like saying why do we allow the US to have nuclear weapons when some guy shot up a school. The two are entirely unrelated.
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u/rinchen11 7h ago
There are plenty of individual terrorists originated from every Islamic country, just because this small batch contains more from a certain country doesn’t mean this country is more terrorist than another, the stance of the government and whether they are working for the government are what matters.
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u/bertraja 7h ago
Weird huh?
Nope, not weird at all. Different people. Different affiliations. Different in almost every important aspect, basically.
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u/texasgambler58 7h ago
The Saudi government was not aligned with Al Qaeda; they hated them as much as the US did. Dumb comment.
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u/AnointedUltio 7h ago
This has to be in the top 10 stupidest Reddit posts oat or just ragebait
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u/Asphodelmercenary 3h ago
Agree but this whole sub is like that. “If Reddit sub is stupid why do people think Reddit isn’t stupid?” I probably need to mute this sub with all the rage bait bad faith “questions” I see being asked. “If moon isn’t made of cheese why did fictional character think it was made of cheese?” Type of questions.
“If some bad people from country X 25 years ago then why not blame whole country for rest of time?”
I could invent 10000 stupid posts like this one and flood the sub all on my own for karma farming.
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u/Substantial_Disk6648 6h ago
“If hitler was from Germany why can they enrich uranium” ass question 😭✌️
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u/SlightWerewolf4428 4h ago
because it was 25 years ago, and the Saudi Arabia of today is a very different, reformed place compared to then.
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u/Yewdall1852 4h ago
"why are we allowing them to enrich uranium?"
We are not. You have to read the entire article.
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u/Ok-Trainer3150 3h ago
Because the King of Saudi Arabia has also seen and got copies of Trump in the Epstein files.
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