Bin Laden never really conducted any attacks. He was a point guy of sorts who would be consulted on operations and tapped for fiscal support. He's more of a capitalist than an entrepreneur. His first big PR boost came after his support of the bombing of American embassies in Africa.
It's interesting how thin the evidence is that the Neocons used to assert that bin Laden had relations with Saddam Hussein. The strongest piece is a meeting between Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi official in Prague. The meeting may have had something to do with Hussein's supposed request that al-Qaeda bomb radio transmitters broadcasting anti-Saddam propaganda. One writer even goes so far as to assert that Zarqawi (bin Laden's boy in Iraq) didn't pledge allegiance to bin Laden until after the US invasion.
In addition to claiming credit for the collapse of the Soviet Union, bin Laden also claims that al-Qaeda trained the RPG shooters in the Black Hawk Down incident.
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Date: 18/6/10 23:36 (UTC)It's interesting how thin the evidence is that the Neocons used to assert that bin Laden had relations with Saddam Hussein. The strongest piece is a meeting between Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi official in Prague. The meeting may have had something to do with Hussein's supposed request that al-Qaeda bomb radio transmitters broadcasting anti-Saddam propaganda. One writer even goes so far as to assert that Zarqawi (bin Laden's boy in Iraq) didn't pledge allegiance to bin Laden until after the US invasion.
In addition to claiming credit for the collapse of the Soviet Union, bin Laden also claims that al-Qaeda trained the RPG shooters in the Black Hawk Down incident.