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Alex Rubinstein
Personal blog · realalexrubi.substack.compoliticshistory
Alex Rubinstein's personal blog at realalexrubi.substack.com covers politics and history. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “CIA Pressured Yemen to Release Al-Qaeda Leader from Prison in 2001”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts on US intelligence and the 9/11 investigation, including Saudi staff contacts with the hijackers and officials who protected alleged plotters. The comments discuss the topic, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Original reporting and analysis.
Most-linked posts?
- CIA Pressured Yemen to Release Al-Qaeda Leader from Prison in 20013 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-22
What Hacker News says?
The source of these “intelligence” always seems to be flawed or straight up lies in retrospect. Coming out after two decades seems like an invention to use as an excuse for a battering ram of new wars or regime changes if they stray out of Biden’s orbit and wishes. Seems the snub of the phone calls and other slights are the answer to such stories and their occurrence and surfacement. My favorite Awlaki story: https:…
Comment linking /p/leaked-cia-pressured-yemen-to-release
on “Flurry of Calls Among Saudi Staff and Spy Coincided with 9/11 Hijackers’ Arrival”Submitted CIA Pressured Yemen to Release Al-Qaeda Leader from Prison in 2001 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWell the CIA arranged visas multiple times for Sheikh Omar Rahman, despite public protestations from countries like Egypt who labeled him a terrorist. He was the alleged mastermind of the first bombing attack on the World Trade Center in the 1990s: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/22/nyregion/cia-officers-pla... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tradecenter-rahman-id... Sheikh Omar Rahman was also a critical pla…
Comment linking /p/leaked-cia-pressured-yemen-to-release
on “Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?”
