The majority of the 9/11 hijackers, fifteen of them, were trained in terrorist training camps in Saudi Arabia and they were Saudi nationals. How can anyone claim that Saudi Arabia isn't a terrorist country? We should define what “terrorist state” means.
If “terrorist state” defined as “state that, directly or indirectly-openly or covertly-via official state apparatus or private institution, support and funded armed groups that use terrorism as a tactic; or its apparatus using terrorism as a military tactic”, then Saudi Arabia can be considered a “terrorist state”. Just so you know, the US conducts flight training schools from other countries all the time.
Just last month, in Pensacola, Florida, a member of the Saudi Air Force killed three people at Naval Air Station Pensacola before he was shot dead. He was here in the US from Saudi Arabia undergoing flight training provided by the US. This is something the US offers to any country that buys our jets.
Here are 5 ways Saudi Arabia allegedly helped terrorists carry out the 9/11 attacks - New York Daily News
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers held Saudi passports — and some had connections with those in the Saudi Arabian government at home and abroad. Saudi officials even stamped passports in a certain way as to denote whether the person was an al Qaeda member.
Officials in the Saudi embassy in Germany, for example, supported Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker, saying that a Saudi national was staying in the same Virginia hotel with several other terrorists the night before the attacks.
Officials from Saudi embassies allegedly helped two hijackers in particular — Salem al-Hazmi and Khalid Al-Mihdhar — for a period of 18 months before 9/11, providing them with money, advice, contacts, transportation, assistance with learning English, and obtaining IDs. They also helped them attain access to pilot training and other material support and resources ultimately used on 9/11.
The Saudi royal family, who for years feared al Qaeda and tried to appease them in a bid to avoid losing power, were aware that funds from several charities had been funneled to Osama bin Laden's terror network.
Saudi Arabia - throughout the late 1980s - "adopted an extremist version of Islam - Wahhabism - as the state religion; declared that its propagation was a core function of the state; and sought to advance it around the world through Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Embassies, Saudi Arabia's charity organizations and other government agents."
Saudi Arabia 9/11 terrorists
Ahmed al Ghamdi
Hamza al Ghamdi
Saeed al Ghamdi
Hani Hanjour
Nawaf al Hazmi
Salem al Hazmi
Ahmad al Haznawi
Ahmed al Nami
Khalid al Mihdhar
Majed Moqed
Abdul Aziz al Omari
Mohand al Shehri
Wail al Shehri
Waleed al Shehri
Satam al Suqam