Nemeski@mander.xyz to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 5 days agoEA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square110linkfedilinkarrow-up1525
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minus-squareOwOarchist@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 days ago the origin country of the most 9/11 hijackers That’s underselling it. If I remember correctly, all but one of them were Saudi.
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 days ago15 were from Saudi Arabia, two from the UAE, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.
minus-squareOwOarchist@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoAh, okay. So only 4 who weren’t Saudis. Also … I’m detecting a notable lack of Afghanistan on that list…
minus-squareDarkCloud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoYeah, but I think they were mostly living in Afghanistan prior to the attack.
minus-squareElChinchilla@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 days agoThey all traveled through countries (passport stamped and all) deemed not allowed for Saudi Arabia > United States travel. The Saudis allowed them to move freely. That was the detail that has stuck with me from the 9/11 commission report.
minus-squareHodor@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoI thought they met and planned in Saudi
That’s underselling it.
If I remember correctly, all but one of them were Saudi.
15 were from Saudi Arabia, two from the UAE, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.
Ah, okay. So only 4 who weren’t Saudis.
Also … I’m detecting a notable lack of Afghanistan on that list…
And Iraq. No Iran either.
Yeah, but I think they were mostly living in Afghanistan prior to the attack.
They all traveled through countries (passport stamped and all) deemed not allowed for Saudi Arabia > United States travel. The Saudis allowed them to move freely. That was the detail that has stuck with me from the 9/11 commission report.
I thought they met and planned in Saudi
That would be Tel Aviv