It really shows that people have selective bias on what they want to sympathize with. I'm looking at you "rationalists" and "moderates". Fuck you.
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Role? Osama's goal was bringing down the Saudi kingdom, ever since the latter stationed "the crusaders" in their other holy land of Mecca and Medina in 1990. During the early to mid 2000s the AQAP insurgency tried just that by attacking Western and regime targets in Saudi Arabia until they were defeated and now they exist pretty much only in Yemen (with cells elsewhere including Europe, the Charlie Hebdo attack was theirs). You're very confused.
Okay, found about it. It's from the time of the original (anti-communist) jihad in Afghanistan, which was openly sponsored by the country, and some 10 years before Osama and Zawahiri's declaration of the Global Front Against the Jews and the Crusaders.
Dunno, what is the Golden Chain?
This is from the 1980s (as I already told you). Anyway of course there were and still are rich Saudis and others who are aiding people like Osama, who himself was a rich Saudi. (Zawahiri was also rich, but from Egypt.)