Osama bin Laden claimed Israel’s invasion of Lebanon inspired the Al-Qaida attack on the World Trade Center. “When I saw the destroyed buildings in Lebanon, it raised in me the notion of punishing the unjust in a similar manner, and destroying towers in the United States so that they would taste some of what we were tasting,” he said.
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