[another cricket]

No sane madman would bother with such a scheme.

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

[RightWhale]

if Bin Ladin hadn't known that he was living on borrowed time

He knew that, no doubt about it. Too bad he went to the wrong Sufi school, he could'a been a contenda.