judge56988 wrote:That's very true but why exactly do you think the terrorists did what they did?
There were two groups involved. One is Osama bin Laden who organized the attacks (along with his cronies), and then there were the perpetrators from Egypt and Saudi Arabia who carried it out.
Osama bin Laden was at one time a close friend of the US as result of America providing Afghanistan support against the Russian invasion in the 1980s. But in 1991, when the coalition forces (led by the US) ejected Iraq from Kuwait, bin Laden was developing anxiety attacks about Western infidels being on Arab soil. After the war, Saudi Arabia asked the US stay on Saudi soil with some air force bases in the desert to protect Saudi Arabia from possible attack by Iraq. By that time, bin Laden was extremely upset that the US military was remaining on Saudi soil. He protested so much, that the Saudi government permanently kicked him out of Saudi Arabia and revoked his passport. After that time, Osama bin Laden then was involved in various plots to attack the US military in some Mideast locations such as the attack on the USS Cole.
In 1998, Bill Clinton was involved in a sexual harassment lawsuit against him (he had multiple sexual relationships with women who worked under him as both Governor of Arkansas and as President). On the day that Clinton was forced to give a legal deposition under oath in the Paula Jones lawsuit, Clinton authorized military attacks on bin Laden in order to assassinate him. As we know, the attacks failed, and Clinton never authorized any other attacks. We know that shortly after Clinton tried to kill bin Laden, the 2001-09-11 plot against the US was hatched and the began recruiting people to go to the US, enter flight schools, and learn how to fly a jumbo jet that could be hijacked. Most probably, bin Laden figured that if the US was going to kill him it was only a matter of time before they seceded (just barely missed the first time), and bin Laden would try and kill as many Americans as possible before that happened.
The people recruited to carry out the plot (about 15 IIRC) were from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The Saudi recruits were apparently political enemies of the Kingdom and had probably been treated very poorly or even tortured by the Saudi government (which trreatment of political enemies appears to be the norm in that part of the world). They blamed the US for that, mainly because in Islamic culture it is not permissible to blame other Muslims if you can blame someone else who is not Muslim. The US was very friendly with the Saudi government, especially since Saudi Arabia did not pose a threat to any other countries in the area, and seemed content to produce oil and get rich, as opposed to others who wanted to attack other countries and cause instability in the Middle East.
The other group was from Egypt. They were also political opponents of the various regimes in Egypt from Anwar Sadat until the present day. These regimes have been known to torture political enemies, or other otherwise exercised questionable human rights policies. In addition, the US funds Egypt to the tune of several billion US dollars per year. This goes back to the Camp David Accord President Carter got Israel and Egypt to agree to peace, and the US has been giving both Israel and Egypt billions each year to be not be at war with each other as part of that agreement. Of course, if the US had not given Egypt billions of dollars each year (and only gave money to Israel) then Muslims would say that the US hates Muslims. In this case, the 9/11 perpetrators from Egypt hated their government and blamed the US for subsidizing it and they believed that the money from the US allowed them to stay in power.
The reason that Bill Clinton was forced to give a deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, is that he had shown a pattern of behavior of sexually exploiting women in government who worked under him (figuratively). In the US, sexual harassment in the workplace is a serious charge. In that time frame (late 1990's) the Monica Lewinsky scandal had come to light (Lewinsky was a White House intern) and it had been revealed that Lewinsky had given Clinton a BJ in the White House and that some of Bill's evidence was still on Lewinsky's dress she wore that day even though incident happened some time before that, and that the dress was never cleaned, but stored in a protective plastic bag. The special prosecutor seized the dress as evidence.
The inclusion of the Lewinsky scandal in the Paula Jones law suit gave credibility to her lawsuit (pattern of behavior) and a judge ruled that Clinton must give a sworn legal deposition under oath in the case. Clinton's deposition testimony was later used to impeach him for perjury, and also used against him in a separate legal case in which he lost his license to practice law for 5 years. As previously mentioned, the deposition was conducted on the same day the US military attempted to kill Osama bin Laden, based on Clinton's approval of the attack just hours before it occurred. Many believe that Clinton authorized the attack in order to divert attention from the legal deposition that he was forced to give that same day in a location outside of the White House (Clinton never authorized any further attacks against bin Laden).
So the reason why 9/11 happened, is that Monica never had her dress cleaned after Bill's "shot heard around the world."