What caused the rapid decline of Saudi-US relations after September 11, 2001?

Answer 1

Fifteen of the nineteen 911 hijackers were Saudi nationals; Osama bin Laden is from a very wealthy Saudi family; terrorist financing has been traced back to Saudi Arabia; and fundamentalist imams in Saudi Arabia have preached jihad against the West.

Answer 2

Saudia Arabia is the symbol of repression in today's free world. The New York mayor did the right thing by rejecting Saudi aid. Under no circumstances no matter how great the cause is, killing of innocents is not justified and the Saudi's were justifying murder because of the suppression of Palestenian rights. Saudia Arabia and Pakistan are the most fanatical countries with hatered against Americans and non Muslims. Even Iran is moderate when it comes to these two countries. Strangely the American govt calls them alies instead of enemies.

Answer 3

we could continually by no potential have invaded Iraq. Many infantrymen' lives may were saved by purely sticking to Afghanistan, making our aspect forcefully there and then transferring on. The excuse "a minimum of Bush did something" is moronic, because because the president of the USA, you're meant to retaliate adverse to the right people, not purely launch an attack to assert you "did something." Clinton knew that he might want to finally end up starting up WW III if he attacked while not having a minimum of a few idea the position the attackers originated. Bush wasted lives and taxpayer funds attempting to avenge his father's tried homicide decrease back in 1991, and that is purely inexcusable.

Answer 4

I am gonna guess that 9/11/01 caused the decline of Saudi-US relations. I just saw a really hot Saudi girl a few minutes ago. I wouldn't have minded having relations with her. Does that count as me trying to repair relations. I am the next Jimmy Carter!

Answer 5

The Scrowcoft Group and Mr. Robert Strauss were charging the Saudi too much $$$ to rip off the USA

Answer 6

Rudi Gulianni, the then Mayor of New York, was furious at a comment made by a Saudi prince as the Saudis were sending financial aid to the recovery process of the WTC disaster.

The Saudi prince simply said that the root causes of terrorism must be analyzed and one of the most crucial questions remaining unsolved was the Israeli Palestinian conflict. That made Mr. Gulliani furious enough to reject the Saudi aid. And that's how US Saudi relations detiorated.

I think it was pretty stupid of Gulliani to do that. Can't he respect other people's opinions? But I think that the US Saudi relations are better now.

Answer 7

You said it 9/11

Answer 8

I think Farizand is right except that we certainly had the right to turn down the money under those circumstances.

They want to blame the US for everything including 9/11. Sorry, we didn't and still don't need that. The radical islamists had just declared war on us.

I think we can get along without their oil. There is new drilling going on all the time that people are unaware of and evidently we have plenty of oil and gas, thank you very much but no.

Answer 9

Our government couldn't make it so obvious that it had close ties with terrorist supporting countries... plus The mayor of NY was dumb and rejected money from them... plus we keep supporting Israel more and more..(which pisses off almost every Muslim and Arab country) we attacked the middle east.. many people in the US became racist against Arabs and prejudice toward Islam.. and everyone in the world knows this. It might have hurt Bush's war cause if everyone continued to see him and his associates being friendly towards people with ties to bin ladens group and other hostile groups.. etc.

Answer 10

9 hijackers!