According to former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who led the CIA's hunt for Osama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader was motivated by a belief that U.S. forign ploicy has oppressed,killed, or otherwise harmed Muslims in the Middle East, condensed in the phrase "They hate us for what we do, not who we are."
Bin Laden also said only the restoration of Sharia law would "set things right" in the Muslim world, and that alternatives such as "pan-Arabism, socialism, communism, democracy" must be opposed. This belief, in conjunction with violent jihad, has sometimes been called Qutbism after being promoted by Sayyid Qutb. Bin Laden believed that Afghanistan, under the rule of Mullah Omar's Taiban, was"the only Islamic country" in the Muslim world. Bin Laden consistenly dwelt on the need for violent jihad to right what he believed were injustices against Muslims perpetrated by the United States and sometimes by other non=Muslim states, the need to eliminate the state of Israel, and the necessity of forcing the United States to withdraw from the Middle East. He also called on Americans to "reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling, and usury" in an October 2002 letter.
Bin Laden's ideology included the idea that innocent civilians, including women amd children, are legitimate targets of jhad. Bin laden was anti-Semitic, and delivered warning against alleged jewishconspiracies:"These jews are masters of usury and leaders in treachery. They will leave you nothing, either in this world or the nest." Shia Muslims have been listed along with "heretics, America, and Israel" as the four principal "enemies of Islam" at ideology classes of Bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization.
Bin Laden opposed music on religious grounds,and his attitude towards technology was mixed. He was interested in "eatth-moving machinery and genetic engineering of plants" on the one hand, but rejected "chilled water" on the other.
His viewpints and methods of achieving them had led to him being designated as a terrorist by scholars, journalists from The New york Times, the BBC, and Qatari news station Al jazeera, analysts such as Peter Bergen, Michael Ccheuer, Marc Sageman, and Bruce haffman and he was indicted on terorism charges by law enforcement agencies in Madrid New York City, and Tripoli.
Bin Laden's overall strategy against much larger enemies such as the Soviet Union and United States was to lure them into a long War of Attrition in Muslim Countries, attracting large numbers of jihadists who would never surrender. He believed this would lead to economic collapse of the enemy nation. Al-Qaeda manuals clearly outline this strategy. The Soviet Union collapsed following yeas of fightng in Afghanistan, and several prominent authors have stated that the United States was on the verge of suffering the same fate, losing countless trillions of dollars to the ongoing conflict. In this sense, some have credited bin Laden as the on person who was successful in his fight against both of the world superpowers.
Bin Laden also said only the restoration of Sharia law would "set things right" in the Muslim world, and that alternatives such as "pan-Arabism, socialism, communism, democracy" must be opposed. This belief, in conjunction with violent jihad, has sometimes been called Qutbism after being promoted by Sayyid Qutb. Bin Laden believed that Afghanistan, under the rule of Mullah Omar's Taiban, was"the only Islamic country" in the Muslim world. Bin Laden consistenly dwelt on the need for violent jihad to right what he believed were injustices against Muslims perpetrated by the United States and sometimes by other non=Muslim states, the need to eliminate the state of Israel, and the necessity of forcing the United States to withdraw from the Middle East. He also called on Americans to "reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling, and usury" in an October 2002 letter.
Bin Laden's ideology included the idea that innocent civilians, including women amd children, are legitimate targets of jhad. Bin laden was anti-Semitic, and delivered warning against alleged jewishconspiracies:"These jews are masters of usury and leaders in treachery. They will leave you nothing, either in this world or the nest." Shia Muslims have been listed along with "heretics, America, and Israel" as the four principal "enemies of Islam" at ideology classes of Bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization.
Bin Laden opposed music on religious grounds,and his attitude towards technology was mixed. He was interested in "eatth-moving machinery and genetic engineering of plants" on the one hand, but rejected "chilled water" on the other.
His viewpints and methods of achieving them had led to him being designated as a terrorist by scholars, journalists from The New york Times, the BBC, and Qatari news station Al jazeera, analysts such as Peter Bergen, Michael Ccheuer, Marc Sageman, and Bruce haffman and he was indicted on terorism charges by law enforcement agencies in Madrid New York City, and Tripoli.
Bin Laden's overall strategy against much larger enemies such as the Soviet Union and United States was to lure them into a long War of Attrition in Muslim Countries, attracting large numbers of jihadists who would never surrender. He believed this would lead to economic collapse of the enemy nation. Al-Qaeda manuals clearly outline this strategy. The Soviet Union collapsed following yeas of fightng in Afghanistan, and several prominent authors have stated that the United States was on the verge of suffering the same fate, losing countless trillions of dollars to the ongoing conflict. In this sense, some have credited bin Laden as the on person who was successful in his fight against both of the world superpowers.
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