Some suggest that 9/11 was another Operation Northwoods: [10]

Why, in February of 2001, was the west blamed for terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia?

WHAT'S UP WITH THE SAUDIS?
West blamed for terrorist attacks (Feb, 2001)[1]

The Associated Press is reporting that the Saudi Arabian interior minister, Prince Nayef, has blamed "foreign parties" for a series of bombings in the Saudi capital that killed a British man and injured four others ... These "foreign parties" were not identified, except that the culprits are "not from Muslim or Arab countries."

Well, yes, the first thing you think is indeed a terrorist attack, but apparently the Saudis weren't buying it. The next thing we knew, an American was being held in connection with the bombings: one Michael Sedlak, an employee of the Vinnell Corporation – more on them later – had been arrested and was suspected of ordering the bombings. ...

It is highly unlikely that a State Department official of Boucher's rank would be unaware of the Vinnell Corporation, and the essential services it provide for US policy makers. Perhaps he needs to be briefed by Vice President Dick Cheney, formerly CEO of the Halliburton Company, whose subdivision, Brown and Root, has a lucrative contract to maintain military bases in Turkey in alliance with Vinnell. Aside from having extensive contracts in Europe, Vinnell has for twenty years been the subcontractor awarded the job of training the Saudi National Guard, a kind of Praetorian guard for the House of Saud, the ultimate insurer of dynastic power. In a fascinating article, "Mercenaries, Inc.," by William D. Hartung, a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research, and author of And Weapons for All, describes the dicey nature of Vinnell's "business"

... Founded in 1931, Vinnell started out making a fortune from Los Angeles road construction, but after the war started getting into military work in a major way, with clear connections to US intelligence operations

But clearly Vinnell had a more direct role in the conflict: one Pentagon official told the Village Voice, in March 1975, that Vinnell was "our own little mercenary army in Vietnam," used when they didn't have the manpower "or because of legal problems."

Vinnell, in short, is no "private" company but an extension of US military and intelligence operations in Saudi Arabia, charged with protecting the Saudi monarchy from its own people – so why is one of it's employees charged with aiding if not masterminding a series of murderous bombings?

But, really, they don't have to go back that far: they have only to remember the bombing of the Saudi National Guard and adjacent building – Vinnell's office – that took place on November 13, 1995, killing five Americans and wounding thirty. Hartung cites the trenchant comment of a retired military officer: "I don't think it was an accident that it was that office that got bombed. If you wanted to make a political statement about the Saudi regime, you'd single out the National Guard, and if you wanted to make a statement about American involvement, you'd pick the only American contractor involved in training the guard: Vinnell." But what kind of a statement about American intervention is the Saudi government making when they imprison a Vinnell employee on such dubious grounds?...

The first is that the attack on Vinnell, long associated with the Saudi National Guard, is an attack on the National Guard's commander, Prince Abdullah, King Fahd's brother and the presumptive heir to the throne. With the King incapacitated by illness, Abdullah is now in charge – or is he?

For the bizarre attempt to frame and execute Westerners for conducting a terrorist campaign against themselves indicates two possible scenarios, both of which would be disastrous for US policy makers. An alternate – and, in my view, far more likely – theory is even more ominous for the US, and particularly for the administration of George W. Bush: the jailing of Sedlak and the others couldn't have even occurred without Prince Abdullah's knowledge and approval, and this is the first phase of an anti-Western turn by the House of Saud.

... What better way to hurry along the hoped-for US withdrawal – and quash any attempt by Vinnell's "executive mercenaries" to overthrow him – than a campaign scapegoating foreigners for crimes committed by the Osama bin Laden crowd?