Maybe OBL was just gossiping over the backyard fence with Saddam about what his plans were for America.
Fritz Hollings mentioned on the floor of the Senate that Iraq's state run newspaper knew exactly what was coming to the United States -- in July 2001 they published an article about it.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1472699/posts?page=1
Less than two months before 9/11/01, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper “Al-Nasiriya” carried a column headlined, “American, an Obsession called Osama Bin Ladin.” (July 21, 2001)
In the piece, Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden would attack the US “with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.”
The same state-approved column also insisted that bin Laden “will strike America on the arm that is already hurting,” and that the US “will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs” – an apparent reference to the Sinatra classic, “New York, New York”.
so maybe they did. And as my senior officers used to say, "so what?"
I truly fail to see the value of debating an issue that is OBE for all intents and purposes. No one is going to change anyones mind on what they adamantly believe, regardless of facts, aerials of al queda doing push-ups in Tikrit, and other startling acts of massive inhumanity. There will be a new movie coming out called "the killing sands", starring some poor iraqi shmuck who crawled out of a dead pile of bodies and escaped. Everyone in the theater will be dabbing their misty eyes, but then realize,...."at least Bush did something, even though I hate him."
Even if a photo surfaces of OBL and Saddam looking over a Manhattan architectural mockup with the twin towers and OBL holding a Fisher Price toy plane near the towers, you won't get much mileage on trying to change peoples minds. Saddam's dead, his sons' are dead, and now that country has got to get their own act together. It will take decades, and generations of killing before they get the culture of fear and hate out of their system, if ever.
Afghanistan, however, has a better chance of success. Much better.