Why terrorists attack America

[Valandil]

Originally posted by GrayMouser
Osama bin Laden was (is?) a Saudi, and his concerns were pretty parochial as Valandil pointed out- Infidel troops on Saudi soil- it seems it took al-Zawahiri (an Egyptian) to get him to at least put some emphasis on Palestine and the wider picture.

Nice commentary GrayMouser... I would only qualify this part of it - in that I'm not so sure it was THAT much of an issue that Saudi Arabia was the homeland of Osama bin Laden... more that it is the home of Mecca and Medina... Islam's two holiest cities. It is forbidden for a non-Moslem to even be in Mecca (I believe great pains are even taken to prevent satellite orbital paths from flying over Mecca)... for our infidel troops to be stationed in the same country was seen by Moslem extremists as quite the affront to Islam.