Press: Bin Laden's game - City Pages

(Michael Scheuer in City Pages - Bin Laden's Game)

"Bin Laden, I think, took a lesson from that and instead focused on the impact of our policies in the Islamic world—our support for the Arab tyrannies in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, our presence in the holy lands on the Arabian Peninsula, our invasion of Iraq, our support for countries like Russia that are deemed to repress Islamic people. He's focused on things that are visible to the Islamic world every day, and quite frankly there's a direct correlation between what he says and what all the Western polling firms are finding, that there is a huge majority in Islamic countries that hate our foreign policy. [...]

We should be so lucky as to have him hate us only for our freedoms. He's never even discussed that kind of thing."