This note is intended to provide links to some articles from various sources that will help us understand Osma Bin Ladden's motivations.

I urge others with similar links to post them here too, so that we can all learn what motivates our attackers.

This New Yorker essay is an excellent biography of Bin Laden. The Real Bin-Ladden : http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010917fr_archive07

A Pakistani journalist who has covered the Taliban for years gives his insight into them. The Atlantic Magazine : Inside the Jihad: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-08-09.htm

An essay from Janes' from their New Dehli correspondant on how this all came to be... Janes' Defence Weekly : Why? An attempt to explain the unexplainable: http://www.janes.com/regional_news/americas/news/jdw/jdw010914_1_n.shtml

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former U.S. intelligence officer, has a piece in The Weekly Standard offering some insights into bin Laden's motives - Reading Bin Ladden's Mind: http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_7_2_01/gerecht_feat_7_2_01.asp

In the September 1990 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Bernard Lewis puts the Islamic terrorists in sweeping historical perspective: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/90sep/rage.htm

Although somewhat strident, this editorial from the New York Post does call out the issue facing our diverse, secular culture in stark terms. The Issue is Radical Islam: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/32549.htm

AGAIN - PLEASE ADD OTHER REFERENCES YOU THINK WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US TO UNDERSTAND WHERE BIN-LADDEN AND HIS PEOPLE ARE COMING FROM.

Thanks!

Rich

-- Rich Marsh (marshr@airmail.net), September 18, 2001

Answers

Tbe following is the analysis of the Washington Post on Osma Bin Laden. Bin Laden: Architect of New Global Terrorism http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38213-2001Sep15.html

-- Rich Marsh (marshr@airmail.net), September 18, 2001.