cicerone imposter wrote:You're confused: the airliner attacks were instigated by OBL and citizens of Saudi Arabia, not Iraq.
No! It is you who are confused.
First, the US state department has officially recognized 25 terrorist groups and they are not all from Saudi Arabia, but they all seek to murder innocent people.
Second, OBL was himself kicked out of Saudi Arabia long before 9/11/2001. He eventually deposited himself and his gang in Afghanistan with the Taliban.
Third, I do not think a continued preoccupation with OBL and which terrorist group did what is going to save anyone. They all must be exterminated.
Fourth and main point, the Russians and French did not care that their weapon building assistance to Saddam presented a potential threat to everyone; they did not care because they believed they would be the last to be attacked by terrorists with those weapons; they did not care because they believed the US, UK and other western European countries like Spain would be attacked with such weapons before they would. They perceive the airliner attack on the US as merely an early justification for them not to care.