>>508691111The personal motivation for OBL to turn against his former CIA paymasters and their country were US troops occupying the Muslim holy land. He was pissed at the KSA for harbouring US troops in Mecca and elsewhere. That was what prompted him to turn.
I think that they (Al Qaeda) saw both the USSR and the United States as occupiers, and they thought well -- we'd got rid of the Russians, why stop now? Sort of thing.
Well anyway all of that is the official story.
I think where the "Israel did it" or the "US knew" crowd comes in, is where US intelligence failed, but foreign intelligence did not, and those foreign nations chose to not share the intelligence they had of an imminent attack ... for whatever reason; and that the US had been notified but, as mentioned above, did not act because of inter-departmental disputes and a lack of cohesive intelligence sharing between agencies, and the fact they had a massive intelligence analysis blindspot following the Cold War... the security apparatus hadn't yet realised the threat of Islamic terror even despite the attacks at the United States listed above.
I think it was maybe like only 1 guy in the FBI who was constantly screaming at the top brass about Islamic terror during the 90s and he was resolutely ignored.
I don't think to this day they ever retrieved all the stinger missiles & launchers they gave to the Afghanistan Mujahideen, even after offering a $50,000 USD buy-back campaign. Quite funny to think there's antique stinger missile systems sitting somewhere forgotten in the Afghan desert covered in dust, sand, and the detritus of time. Honestly they should be in a museum, or considered collectors' items. They gave them these missiles to shoot Russian helis.
tl;dr your country used to give stinger missles, chinky rusted-up AK-47s, bombs, food, money, water, and medicine to Osama bin Laden & adjacent groups while they were fighting the Soviets, and then it all blew back in your face massively 12 years later!