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Osama bin Laden did not expect the United States to strike back at al Qaeda as hard as it has following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., WTOP Radio in Washington, D.C. reported Tuesday, citing a former bin Laden associate.
“What happened after the 11th of September was beyond their imagination,” Noman Benotman, who was the head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the summer of 2000, told WTOP in an interview.
Benotman said al Qaeda was overly confident based on the U.S. response to the terror group’s attacks on embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
“I’m 100 percent sure they had no clue about what was going to happen,” Benotman said.
A former CIA official, on the condition of anonymity, backed up Bentoman’s assertions.
”Several captured terrorists have said publicly that al Qaeda never expected the towers to fall. Their goal was to frighten people and impact the U.S. economy, so they really didn't plan for the massive response the U.S. launched," the official said.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nation...aliation_M122q3hweQzXAl46cWiu8J#ixzz0mccOlNBp
And here:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=778&sid=1943289
Osama bin Laden did not expect the United States to strike back at al Qaeda as hard as it has following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., WTOP Radio in Washington, D.C. reported Tuesday, citing a former bin Laden associate.
“What happened after the 11th of September was beyond their imagination,” Noman Benotman, who was the head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the summer of 2000, told WTOP in an interview.
Benotman said al Qaeda was overly confident based on the U.S. response to the terror group’s attacks on embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
“I’m 100 percent sure they had no clue about what was going to happen,” Benotman said.
A former CIA official, on the condition of anonymity, backed up Bentoman’s assertions.
”Several captured terrorists have said publicly that al Qaeda never expected the towers to fall. Their goal was to frighten people and impact the U.S. economy, so they really didn't plan for the massive response the U.S. launched," the official said.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nation...aliation_M122q3hweQzXAl46cWiu8J#ixzz0mccOlNBp
And here:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=778&sid=1943289