[B Knotts]

Also an article in The Olympian:

Sen. Murray to students: Ponder bin Laden's popularity

[finnman69]

from the Olympian


"Mostly he did underwrite -- and so did many Arab charities -- several fundamentalist Muslim schools throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan that teach a very, very fundamentalist, right-wing version of Islam that preaches hatred for the West," Swetnam said.

Bin Laden's version of Islam tells Muslims that "people in the West are trying to attack your religion (and) oppress you, and the only way to fight that is to rise up against the United States and its crusader buddies, Israel and Europe," Swetnam said.