[tallhappy]

And your purpose in posting this is.........?

[MJY1288]

It's always nice to see Pro-OBL articles here on FR < /sarcasm > OFF

[MedicalMess]

This writer is delusional, at best poorly informed.

[The Great Satan]

"Bin Laden is a true believer and a funder of Islamic causes, rather than a planner and active participant," says Professor Shibley Telhani, a Middle East scholar from the University of Maryland who has followed his career. "His real influence is not as a mastermind of terrorism but as a person who is using a personal fortune to encourage others to wage war against the American interests in the Middle East he finds so objectionable."

Correct. OBL was a PR/recruitment guy, not a military mastermind. Saddam is the military mastermind. However, this is not to say OBL was simply a bit player. The establishment of a pool of would-be human missiles represents a military revolution of comparable significance to the development of the ICBM. Most of the dummies who call themselves analysts (the jokers at Stratfor and The Economist, for instance) are too thick to pick up on this, but the import of this breakthrough was not lost on Saddam Hussein. He's never wanted for the Vision Thing, let us give him that.

[AmericaUnited]

Bin-Laden is/was just a stooge. I believe Saddam was the real driving force behind OK, WTC93, 911, etc.