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Undertoad · 09-09-2004, 10:26 AM

It was so well thought-out that he lost his host country and 3/4ths of his buddies.

It doesn't fit with previous attacks and it doesn't fit with what bin Laden was saying in the late 90s about the nature of the US's approaches to similar attacks. In 1997-98 he was pointing to the attacks in Beirut and Somalia and Khobar and telling people that the US was a paper tiger who can't stand getting hit and will always quietly withdraw. Even the response to the Cole was tiny and finished without being effective. For several decades that was exactly our response to every act of terror, just scurry away. He was convinced that would be our response again, but doubled and without US interests / presence holding up people like the Sauds, he would have a chance to be a bigger power broker.

09-09-2004, 10:26 AM	#13
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It was so well thought-out that he lost his host country and 3/4ths of his buddies. It doesn't fit with previous attacks and it doesn't fit with what bin Laden was saying in the late 90s about the nature of the US's approaches to similar attacks. In 1997-98 he was pointing to the attacks in Beirut and Somalia and Khobar and telling people that the US was a paper tiger who can't stand getting hit and will always quietly withdraw. Even the response to the Cole was tiny and finished without being effective. For several decades that was exactly our response to every act of terror, just scurry away. He was convinced that would be our response again, but doubled and without US interests / presence holding up people like the Sauds, he would have a chance to be a bigger power broker.