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To: MSI who wrote (12569)	12/3/2001 2:28:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>"9/11 was not an attack by OPEC or Saudi against the US" Errr, what were the nationalities of 15 of 19 hijackers? What nationality was Timothy McVeigh? Does the fact that he was American mean that the Oklahoma City bombing was an attack by American as a nation against Oklahoma City? Saudi Arabia hasn't been a very good ally, but 9/11 was an Al Qaida attack not a Saudi attack. There is no question Saudi princes provided enormous support to bin Laden, financial, social and in manpower. There is no question that a lot of their money eventyually went to OBL, but mostly this was through contracts that OBL's father had. >"So I guess we are puppets of NATO, South Korea, varius balkan states and any other place were we have put US lives on the line to defend another country??" These folks didn't fund attacks against US soil. 1 - You haven't established that the Saudi government funded attacks on the US. 2 - My comments where in response to your statement about the US government being the Saudi government's puppet. The two facts you mentioned in support of this where the $10mil that Guliani turned down and the US defense of Saudi from Iraq. If defending another country makes us a puppet then we would be the puppet of a large % of the world. If you could sustantiate that the Saudi government supported bin Laden after he started terror attacks against the US then you might have an argument against the US defending the Saudi's (but would you really rather Saddam Hussien move in?) but you still wouldn't have an argument supported the idea that the US was or is a Saudi puppet. WRT the SI SubjMarks, it seemed to fail starting about 3am EST. I saw a post indicating they'll have it fixed "in a couple days", which is too bad, I use it a lot. It seems to work now. Tim