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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by tut-urut-utut on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:53AM (#30512002)
Wasn't that a citizen of the US ally Saudi Arabia that "blew up American city"?

Why didn't you destroy Saudi Arabia instead? Because they pay their tribute in oil, and you had to destroy "someone", and Afghanistan was the first in the alphabetical list of countries that met the criteria for destruction?

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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by T-A on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @06:18AM (#30512725)
The fact that said citizen of Saudi Arabia was based in Afghanistan and protected by the country's Taliban rulers may have had something to do with that...
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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by seventhtiger on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @06:52AM (#30513024)
He was exiled in 1991 and ostracized by his family, 10 years before 9/11. He wasn't a citizen of Saudi Arabia when the attack was planned and executed.
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