The protection money theory [View all]

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I think this belongs in the forum because it is a creative theory.

The theory suggests that Saudi royals made a deal with Bin Laden. They would pay him millions of dollars so long as he did not attack inside Saudi Arabia. For some reason we are supposed to believe that Bin Laden had all the leverage. Former Senator Bob Graham and the authors of The Eleventh Day (Summers and Swan) support this explanation. Yet it is important to remember that some powerful Saudis were also supporters of Bin Laden. So evidently they both feared and supported him.

Why didn't the Saudis simply kill Bin Laden? They could have blamed Israel or the US to avoid upsetting Bin Laden supporters and in the process saved millions of dollars. Was it because the supporters wanted him to attack outside Saudi Arabia? If so then we should be talking about a murderer for hire. A terrorist hitman.