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Originally Posted by Dusty
Gosh, he seems like an OK guy from this info. Guess we could just disregard 3K plus Americans murdered.  |
Dusty, I believe I am sensing sarcasm. In case I am not, I am not trying to portray him as anything other than the evil bastard that he was, and for that, he most certainly needed to die.I am sorry for that impression in my short overview. I would never mean to claim anything so unbelievably evil or disrespectful to all our fallen brothers and sisters, 911 civilians, or those who have fought.
My wording may read weird, but really, read the docs for yourself to see what caused me to say that. Its a strange read. Not trolling here, but to give you an idea how bizzaro it gets, he even talks about solving famine in Somalia, to help his Muslim brothers. A good example of how crazy he was, he wants to save lives of some, and murder all others....(or maybe just Americans?)
Bin Laden does discuss targeting Americans as well and in great detail. Which is what I expected everything to be about. I am just really shocked that from this little window we see, it appears that was not his main purpose. My issue is that I cannot understand what his actual end statement mission was.
( Maybe even he did not know what it was)
Seems like Bin Laden lost total control of his followers and in some cases those whom he claims just labeled themselves AQ without his permission. What the hell was HE trying to achieve, if all the innocent death was NOT what he wanted? Which is also very contradictory to all the other events in history where he did target us and directly ordered the killing of US civilians and US military. The very definition of extremism I can see, but there appears to be more than that.
I think he was another insane leader in this world for sure.(I never questioned that.) But in the same respect it changes everything we know about AQ. AQ was many different factions of people that thought they were doing his bidding(or not), but really were doing their own local and personal vendettas.
It paints the picture even clearer, that maybe we really did not understand what was going on with the Bin laden connection as well as we thought we did. Which can also explain why it was so damn difficult to find him. ( Since it appears most of these AQ cells were not at all related.)
The other thing that I would really wish to know is why these documents got released? There clearly is a political motivation, but was it for us, or for the middle east? Since the documents were hand selected, it almost seems to me like some kind of effort to ask the Jihadists to stop killing each other. Maybe it is a PSYOP. I don't know. If it is, it makes sense that we would try to do that. Its a pretty bold move though, with a lot of assumptions that the Jihadists would even believe the documents, or even care.