I like identifying which cities the evil-doers think are "holy."
Especially when we occupy them. Irrational justification for further Jihadism. As if American troops carry some kind of taint that makes their land "less holy", a la GI's in Saudi Arabia justifying 9/11.
We are dealing with warped principles here.
That was a phony excuse OBL used to attack. He doesn't care who is in Saudi Arabia as much as he did about what was occurring in Iraq, terrorism's center.