[Orion78]

"Osama's goal is to implicate the Saudis, such that Saudi Arabia loses its Western allies and becomes ripe for an internal revolution that would bring the Taliban into power there much like the Ayatollah came into power in nearby Iran."

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"A primary objective of the strategy here is to achieve a partnership with the fundamentalists in Iran and Algeria and to replace the present American-oriented rulers of Saudi Arabia with fundamentalists. The opening in Saudi Arabia of a Russian Embassy and the probable opening of Embassies by Muslim states of the CIS should be seen, not only as an attempt to extract a few extra Saudi billions, but as part of an offensive to bring about a political reorientation in that country."

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"According to the Saudi official, Mohammed said al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden changed the original plan and personally insisted Saudis carry out the attack for "political reasons." He hoped to drive a wedge between the U.S. and the kingdom and knew a Saudi-dominated attack would strain relations."

[GOP_1900AD]

Is OBL a pro Soviet, anti capitalist operative? As strange is this question might seem, given OBL's apparent Afghan Mujahadeed pedigree, it must be asked. And the greater question - were some of the Mujahadeen of the 1980s playing both sides of the fence? Were some of them GRU agents? One would expect so... that's typically the case in any CIA op, naturally our enemy at the time would have strongly driven infiltration of our op. The only real question is, how many of the Muj were GRU, and was OBL one of them or a false flag recruit of them?