Did the past 20 years end up resulting in a win for bin Laden and bin Ladenism? “Absolutely,” says @Ali_H_Soufan. “I have no doubt in my mind about it.”

Sep 9, 2021 · 11:55 PM UTC

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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan @Ali_H_Soufan
Bin Laden in 2004: "All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses"
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I agree wholeheartedly
Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @SkinnerPm @Ali_H_Soufan
Yeah. That's the damn truth. Every time I read bin Laden's letter to America, it gives me chills. We are destroying ourselves.
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A very interesting and informative verbal interview with Lawrence Wright that retells much of his book, The Looming Tower. youtube.com/ajB-qvbgyG4

174-The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: reflections on how they...

Lawrence Wright is the author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and was named one ...

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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @Ali_H_Soufan
Ali and I used to talk about this very thing for years.
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Of course it did. We deralied our lives, our politics, and our principles in overreaction to him.
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And where is Bin Ladenism originated from? The US! You reap what you sow, and isn't that how it always works?
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