[Do not dub me shapka broham]

In fact, the terrorists who pioneered skyjacking, and foreshadowed Semptember 11th, belonged to the PFLP, a Communist sect within the PLO, which as far as I know never had any connection to political Islam until its resurgence during the Al-Aqsa Intifada.

George Habash and Yasser Arafat were the role models of Osama Bin Laden, even if he refuses to concede this in public.

[Pelham]

Osama's mentors were likely the Egyptian Brotherhood, one of the early Islamic terrorist cells. That's the group that murdered Anwar Sadat in 1981.