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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
No it wasn't.
From his 1998 fatwa
"The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. "
Unless getting America deeper into the war is a step towards this (which would be 5D chess or some **** like that).
He explicit said his goal was to bait America to send troops around the world to fight costly wars, which would ultimately bankrupt us, at which point we would be forced to retreat in shame (just like they did to the Russians in Afghanistan):
http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/200...336457223.html
"All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.
This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.
All Praise is due to Allah.
So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy."