Bin Laden: Palestinian Cause Prompted 9/11
16-May-2008
Al Qaeda's media operation has released a new audio message on the Internet from Osama bin Laden, dealing primarily with Israel and the Palestinians on the 60th anniversary of Israel's creation.
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Bin Laden began his message by telling listeners that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has always been the primary cause for friction between the West and the Muslim world - a struggle which he said was getting more difficult due to European policies biased in Israel's favor.
"The Palestinian cause has been the main factor that, since my early childhood, fueled my desire, and that of the 19 freemen (Sept. 11 bombers), to stand by the oppressed, and punish the oppressive Jews and their allies," the al Qaeda chief said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/ ... ME_4102367
Re: Bin Laden: Palestinian Cause Prompted 9/11
In his 20 years in the blowing stuff up business, prior to and for a couple of years after 9/11, Osama not once mentioned the Palestinians as an inspiration for his cause. His main beef was always the presence of US troops on the Arabian peninsula, and his hatred of Western democracy and culture as a whole. He only began talking about them to gain street cred in their neck of the woods, and to embolden the ignorant people who blamed our meddling in that region for 9/11 and other Al Qaeda attacks.
