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What exactly was Osama bin Laden hoping to accomplish with the 9/11 attacks? Was he hoping that killing a large number of American would make the USA withdraw from KSA or did he envision American retaliation and Americans getting bogged in the Middle East?

by /u/ouat_throw in /r/AskHistorians

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