I should correct something from the long post below. Bin Laden is thought to have assisted the truck bomb that exploded under the World Trade Center in 1993. If true, that represents the furthest he's ever reached and does show a willingness to attack the US on its own soil. I maintain, however, that attacking by use of four commercial jet-liners taking off from three cities nearly simultaneously and attacking specific structures is far out of his reach.
- posted by levinson @ 9/13/2001 08:17:00 AM