Murderous Terrorists Kill Brits

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

My original question was about why no attacks in this country, my point was to note that al Qaeda was plenty busy with the desire to hurt American interests and now it is either not interested or not able.

Do you know exactly what Al Qaeda's interests were? I am going to try to put myself in Al Qaeda's shoes for this one.

The first step is ask ourselves what is Al Qaeda's main interests? We know Al Qaeda is made up of a very small minority of Muslims in the Middle East, mostly Saudi Arabia, and their actions are considered radical among the surrounding communities. I have heard many "goals" of Al Qaeda and all of them need one large factor to be accomplished, more members. A small minority of people will not have enough influence to accomplish their goals so they will need more members.

Now the question is how can Al Qaeda get more members? Without direct US intervention it is really hard to convince people that US imperialism is negative enough for radical action so a direct intervention by the US is needed.

How can Al Qaeda get direct US intervention? 9/11.

So, following the logic, after 9/11 we would expect the United States to use direct military action in the Middle East and with that direct military action more members should have joined the resistance cause.


While I do believe the financial reasons Sugarpop brought up is valid, I would think the self-interests of these people were the primary factor for 9/11. This also explains why no other attacks on US soil has happened by Al Qaeda since. Copy cats using terrorism for other rasons are a different factor and the lack of their actions can be attributed to increased security. If someone did want to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, which is easily possible BTW, it is extremely harder to do now since 9/11 has happened.