Unless he was dying anyway. Why not go out having made sure that the world will never forget you? As for the ones you leave behind, what do you care?
I have often wondered if 9/11 would have happened when it did if Bin Ladin hadn't known that he was living on borrowed time.
a.cricket
He knew that, no doubt about it. Too bad he went to the wrong Sufi school, he could'a been a contenda.