They apparently did not, however, count on the scope of the U.S. response to Sept. 11, believing instead that the retaliation would be similar to the limited cruise missile raids launched after the 1998 bombings of two U.S. Embassies in Africa.
They mistook the Americam media's assesment of Bush being a moron and Clinton being a genius. What did the American media know and when did they know it!