[Restorer]

"The Al Qaeda leader wanted to punish the United States for supporting Israel," the report says flatly - a far more concrete reason for the attacks than has been profferred until now.

I knew it was Israel's fault!

An attack proposed in 96 and approved in 99 was obviously an entirely justifiable response to something Israel did in 2000.

[jennyp]

An attack proposed in 96 and approved in 99 was obviously an entirely justifiable response to something Israel did in 2000.

Yep, wasn't al Qaeda originally supposedly angry at us for having troops in Saudi Arabia? We don't hear too much about that one any more, do we? This is just like Zarqawi beheading Nick Berg, and then checking the newspapers for that week's headlines for something to blame it on. That week it happened to be Abu Ghraib.