Osama bin Laden exploited a weakness in security, Bush family's close business and personal relationship with the Saudi royal family, which is why 15 of 19 hijackers held Saudi passports. If you were security, you better have a damn good reason to interfere with a Saudi passport holder under the Bush regime.
Interesting, "Bin Laden also said only the restoration of
Sharia law would "set things right" in the Muslim world, and that alternatives such as "
pan-Arabism, socialism, communism, democracy" must be opposed.
[46] " Just substitute biblical for Sharia; Christian for Muslim; Internationalism for pan-Arabism and you have the right wing.
"Bin Laden's overall strategy against much larger enemies such as the
Soviet Union and United States was to lure them into a long
war of attrition in Muslim countries, attracting large numbers of jihadists who would never surrender. He believed this would lead to economic collapse of the enemy nation.
[69] Al-Qaeda manuals clearly outline this strategy. In a 2004 tape
broadcast by al-Jazeera, bin Laden spoke of "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy".
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