Why They Hate Us, Part 2

In addition to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (see previous entry), Osama Bin Laden has also explained why we are hated in the Muslim World. In an October 2004 tape, Bin Laden stated, "Unlike what Bush says that we hate freedom, let him tell us why didn't we attack Sweden, for example." He said that he decided to attack the US towers while observing the 1983 Israeli bombing of towers in Beirut which symbolized the "injustice and inflexibility of the American/Israeli alliance towards his people in Palestine and Lebanon."