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minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up82·6 days agoThe original goal of bin laden was to get the US to overreact and waste all their money. … mission accomplished? Also, the taliban are back in power in afganistan…
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up37·6 days agoThe terrorists won when the PATRIOT [sic] Act passed.
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 days agoBlowback from US funding fundamentalists to destabilize the country
minus-squareRedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoThen counterargument for that point I’ve seen is supposedly he only added that to his plans after it started happening. I have yet to dig into researching his manifestos/plans to independently verify that.
minus-squarePalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoWhat he really wanted to do was kick the USA out of the Middle East because he didn’t like how much influence they had over the Saudi royal family.
The original goal of bin laden was to get the US to overreact and waste all their money.
… mission accomplished? Also, the taliban are back in power in afganistan…
The terrorists won when the PATRIOT [sic] Act passed.
Blowback from US funding fundamentalists to destabilize the country
Then counterargument for that point I’ve seen is supposedly he only added that to his plans after it started happening.
I have yet to dig into researching his manifestos/plans to independently verify that.
What he really wanted to do was kick the USA out of the Middle East because he didn’t like how much influence they had over the Saudi royal family.