One thing I don't get is bin Laden's outrage that US troops were in Saudi Arabia. We only went there after Iraq invaded Kuwait. And,
AFAIK, we've turned Prince Sultan AFB over to the Saudis and have just about all left there by now. Saddam was the glue that held us there and he's gone now. And if bin Laden really wanted the US to stay out of the ME, he sure went about it the wrong way. Now we have far more bases there with no end in sight. Seems to me bin Laden, while he got his immediate goal of killing Americans, got the opposite of what he wanted long term.