[WackyKat]

It would be similar to UBL having the Northern Alliance's Massoud killed a couple of days before 9/11. UBL knew we would use the NA in our response. Now, UBL's got another ugly attack scheduled here in the USA and knows that we'll really put pressure on Musharraf to help us retaliate.

Good one.... connecting the dots

[eastforker]

Let me put a differant perspective to it.We, the US SOF, was already in Afghanistan working with the NA fixin to clobber OBL when OBL got wind of it.He decided it was time to make a preemptive strike against the US and maybe scare us into backing down.Think about it,how could we have had operatives so soon on the ground working with the NA in Afghanistan.It is my belief GW was tracking OBL long before 911.