9/11 and another bin Laden video

As we remember the day 6 years ago that changed many things about the way Americans live their lives, a new video from Osama bin Laden is released, praising one of the 19 hijackers who killed thousands of innocent people. No bombs, dirty or otherwise, no airliners flying into buildings, no event that again "changes everything." But the day is still young.

Judith Miller in the Telegraph lays out why New York hasn’t been attacked again.

There’s another possible reason. Could al Qaeda be the paper tiger? I mean, really, if a teenage heavy metal fan can rise in the ranks to be important, as Adam Gadahn (the purported author of Osama’s recent video), how credible can the organization be? In the war against al Qaeda and insurgency in Iraq, we tend to forget that the hijackers were overwhelmingly citizens of Saudi Arabia, yet there’s nothing but love between our government and that one. Could it be that al Qaeda is just "something shiny" to divert attention from the Saudi origins of 9/11?

I’ve asked this question before: If 19 men, mostly Americans, flew planes into buildings in the Middle East, killing thousands, would Americans be able to travel anywhere in the Middle East? Of course not, even if the perpetrators of such an even were identified as extremist fundamental Christians and were shunned by the American public, the U.S. would suffer greatly.

Yet the Saudi government gets a pass.

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