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Article: What Does Osama Really Want?(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- October 29, 2001
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Americans are perplexed. What does Osama bin Laden really want? And if he wants it that badly, why would he resort to horrific acts of terror against the United States to get it? And why did the Sept. 11 terrorists carry with them Muslim prayers asking God's blessing on such murderous work?
There is no reason to be perplexed. Bin Laden has answered those questions, though no one in the West took him seriously. In an interview with Peter Arnett of CNN in March 1997 he explained everything in great detail. He wants the United States to get out of his homeland, Saudi Arabia, and indeed out of the whole Muslim world. He wants to purge Islam of Western influence. His ...