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I agree to a certain extent.

With OBL, I think there are several factors at work. From a psych perspective, I would bet the father son relationship didn't exist, leaving OBL to try and get his father's attention. This would also explain his zealotry -- zealots typically are trying to fill a void missing from childhood (usually no parents, emotional neglect etc...).

In addition, I would also bet OBL somehow feels betrayed in some way that the US didn't put him in power in Afghanistan after OBL's aid during the Russian occupation.

Did I mention I read allot of psychology? I'm not sure he wants to create a muslim central structure as much as he wants power and Islam is a way to achieve that power.

"This would also explain his zealotry -- zealots typically are trying to fill a void missing from childhood (usually no parents, emotional neglect etc..."

Well, I'm not psychologist, but I'm inclined to believe that the kind of religious zealotry that we've witnessed from Islamic extremists has a whole lot more to do with the environment, than with their parental relationships.

Here's a quote from John Lewis Gaddis that I found quite enlightening:

"The final innovation in the Bush strategy deals with the longer-term issue of removing the causes of terrorism and tyranny. Here, again, the president's thinking parallels an emerging consensus within the academic community. For it's becoming clear now that poverty wasn't what caused a group of middle-class and reasonably well-educated Middle Easterners to fly three airplanes into buildings and another into the ground. It was, rather, resentments growing out of the absence of representative institutions in their own societies, so that the only outlet for political dissidence was religious fanaticism." -- A Grand Strategy of Transformation