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Eight Years After 9/11: Why Osama bin Laden FailedBy Tony Karon Fri. Sept. 11, 2009Excerpt: [The flaw in bin Laden's strategy of trying to capture the imagination of the Muslim masses through spectacular acts of terror was obvious even in the immediate wake of 9/11. In much of the Arab and Muslim world, there was a pervasive refusal to believe that Muslims had been responsible for the attacks, even after bin Laden claimed responsibility. The denial inherent in the tendency common from Egypt to Indonesia to blame the Mossad or the CIA for 9/11 reveal a damning negation of al-Qaeda's tactics — so repulsive was the mass murder of innocents to ordinary Muslims that most refused to celebrate the attacks, as bin Laden had hoped they might, but instead sought to blame them on those deemed enemies of Islam. The greatest irony was that some in the Muslim world believed… Read more »
The truth is, the 9/11 attacks did more than take the lives of nearly 3000 innocent people, which was reprehensible in and of itself.The attacks also brought out the absolute WORSE in most Americans, as made evident by the fact that most Americans allowed themselves to be bamboozled by the Bush/Cheney regime. Most Americans supported the UNJUST retaliation against Iraq, a nation that had absoluitley NOTHING to do with 9/11. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives shattered, by countless U.S. meg-a-ton bombs dropped on them beginning on March 20th, 2003.Sept. 11, 2001_AND_March 20, 2003-to-2009There simply are NO words to adequately express my feelings about the Bush/Cheney presidency and the 9/11 attacks 🙁