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I used to respect Sobran's opinions. I don't think OBL expected this response, I think he expected a little bombing and then the USA would roll over and go back to sleep. In any event, if defending ourselves causes more people to come at us, then bring it. A billion people are easier to defend against than 19.

I think we need to look at what the terrorists thought they'd accomplish:

50,000 dead at the WTC.

Given what happened in Kenya, when the Kenyans blamed the US for making them targets when Radical Muslims attacked our embassy there and Kenyans died, they may have anticipated that all of the US's allies would have turned on the US in anger over the deaths of their nationals at the WTC.

1000 dead at the Pentagon.

The WH destroyed, and GWB dead.

The grounded 11 planes destroying whatever their targets were.

The resultant complete paralysis of the US economy, government , and military, leading to-

Massive social unrest in the US.

In short, if they truly believed that Allah would give them a great victory and complete success, with the scenario and its end result as I've sketched (and I know that's just my conjecture) then Bin Laden may not have some great master plan at all. He may truly have thought that the US was going to be destroyed on Sept 11th, because "Allah wills it."