BIN LADEN HAS THE U.S. WHERE HE WANTS IT TO BE

"Osama Bin Laden told me, 'I can’t fight the Americans on the American mainland. It is too far. But if I succeed in bringing the Americans where I can find them, where I can fight them on my own terms, on my turf, this will be the greatest success'."

"... So President Bush fulfilled this wish for Osama bin Laden.... that’s the latest achievement of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, to make the Americans part of the Middle East, instead of far away..."

--Abdel Bari Atwan, editor in chief of Al-Quds Al Arabi, a London-based daily newspaper, remembering his interview with Osama Bin Laden in Tora Bora, Afghanistan in 1996.
http://www.stateofnature.org/abdelBariAtwan.html