“Bin Ladin saw himself as called “to follow in the footsteps of the Messenger and to communicate his message to all nations,”5 and to serve as the rallying point and organizer of a new kind of war to destroy America and bring the world to Islam.”
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/pdf/sec2.pdf
I understand our enemy just fine. You and Ron Paul seem to be the one having the problem with that.
You might want to take more than one quote from that....or read the whole book without skipping the endnotes.