I don't think this is quite correct. I've read good articles that convincingly suggest that Bin Laden is quite interested in overthrowing the secular governments of the middle east, Saudi Arabia in particular, and unifying them all under his vision of an Islamic mega state. Sounds like territorial ambitions to me.
Good point. Yes, for all of his "religious" theatrics, "Pig Chow" Osama is sure dreaming of getting his 72 virgins in this life, he sends young naive sucker kids to murder themselves for his material gain.
And those who would follow him are the same, they want no God, they wouldn't know religion if it stepped on them, they simply want land and power. They want Israel's land, and they want to be colonialists globally: the goal of "fundamentalists" lives down to the worst caricature of the US they paint.
They perceive the US as a country that rules the world, and their rage is inspired by jealousy of the role they imagine this country plays.
"Power hungry dogs" describes only one side of this conflict: Osama and his thugs. They're entirely territorial ambitious, they have maps of the whole world painted green. The US has never had such maps.