Al Qaeda was in Afghanistan at the time not KSA. If I punched you in the face in NYC and then fled to CA sending you pictures from there, would you look for me in NJ, where I live, NYC where the assault happened, or CA where I told you I was? The USA went to the place where the people attacked them were.
They demanded Bin Laden, where then asked for evidence and then just attacked instead of handing over evidence.
Let’s face it, the US government didn’t want an actual solution, they wanted a show of strength. It was always about kicking someone’s teeth in in public.
If they had provided evidence they would have been giving an enemy nation evidence of the network of intelligence assets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Those assets would have all been murdered by the Taliban and Pakistani ISI. The USA was unwilling to completely destroy their intelligence networks over this.
While the narrative in certain circles makes it sound like the Taliban was being reasonable, I doubt anyone in the intelligence communities or diplomatic corps are foolish enough to believe The Taliban were being honest about this
Al Qaeda was in Afghanistan at the time not KSA. If I punched you in the face in NYC and then fled to CA sending you pictures from there, would you look for me in NJ, where I live, NYC where the assault happened, or CA where I told you I was? The USA went to the place where the people attacked them were.
They demanded Bin Laden, where then asked for evidence and then just attacked instead of handing over evidence.
Let’s face it, the US government didn’t want an actual solution, they wanted a show of strength. It was always about kicking someone’s teeth in in public.
If they had provided evidence they would have been giving an enemy nation evidence of the network of intelligence assets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Those assets would have all been murdered by the Taliban and Pakistani ISI. The USA was unwilling to completely destroy their intelligence networks over this.
While the narrative in certain circles makes it sound like the Taliban was being reasonable, I doubt anyone in the intelligence communities or diplomatic corps are foolish enough to believe The Taliban were being honest about this