Bin Laden's Denial of 9/11

[Rayaan]

Without being to crass about it, Rayaan, does your religion have any reason why you are so vigorously defending Osama bin laden? In the same way you always seem to be the first here to defend or excuse violent acts such as stonings, that are acted out in the name of Islam.

The former is a political issue while the latter is a religious one. I'm not defending Osama bin Laden for the sake of Islam. If I truly thought that he was behind 9/11, then I would readily admit this, and secondly, I don't have any respect for terrorist groups like Taliban and Al-Qaeda (and their violent leaders). According to a survey in 2006, it shows that Americans are surprisingly more approving of terrorist attacks against civilians as compared to any Muslim dominated country except for Nigeria. Is the survey rigged? I don't know, but that's what it shows.

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The Myth of Muslim Support for Terror

Those who think that Muslim countries and pro-terrorist attitudes go hand-in-hand might be shocked by new polling research: Americans are more approving of terrorist attacks against civilians than any major Muslim country except for Nigeria.

The survey, conducted in December 2006 by the University of Maryland's prestigious Program on International Public Attitudes, shows that only 46 percent of Americans think that "bombing and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians" are "never justified," while 24 percent believe these attacks are "often or sometimes justified."

Contrast those numbers with 2006 polling results from the world's most-populous Muslim countries – Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. Terror Free Tomorrow, the organization I lead, found that 74 percent of respondents in Indonesia agreed that terrorist attacks are "never justified"; in Pakistan, that figure was 86 percent; in Bangladesh, 81 percent.

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Continued here: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0223/p09s01-coop.html

Anyone here but me familiar with Peter Bergen's books and interviews with OSB?

I never looked into that before. I just googled the guy right now, but I didn't find any sources which say that he was the one who pegged OBL. I'll do more research on it, though.