Why did Saudi Arabia's chef contractor attack the USA with a crew of Saudi suicide soldiers?

Osama bin Laden was not a contractor but a family member of a contracting company owner. His followers were not all Saudis, but Lebanese, Syrian, etc. Mostly young men living in the west but disaffected and lured by the extremist Wahabbi/martyrdom line being peddled by bin Laden.

He is criminally insane.

because he was trying to get someone to ask a trollish question.

why do bad people do bad things? why do americans kill americans, catholics kill catholics or any group attack any other group?

and, besides, everyone knows contractors are scummy, regardless of national origin or religion.

GQ. I don’t know. Seems odd doesn’t it?

@walterallenhaxton You’re absolutely right! Common sense tell us it should have been Saudi Arabia’s chief personal injury lawyer who would be that evil.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land The problem with that is that Osama is not Wahabbi. He is follows Qutbism. If he were Wahabbi that would put the Saudi family directly in charge of him. The Saudis are the military force behind Wahabbism. Yet he is still a contractor. Contractors are generally not the prime movers but those who carry out what the prime movers want done. So I still suspect that Osama has an employer.

@eponymoushipster What makes you think that just because somebody works for somebody else on a per job basis instead of continuously/exclusively it makes him scummy? Now that is an odd statement to make.When a person works that way they can’t stay in business unless they deliver the goods contracted for. That involves working with third parties. It involves gaining the trust of both their employees and suppliers but also of their employers.
I don’t think that scummy contractors make much money or stay in business very long. Of course Osama was a government contractor. So if scummy applies then it would be the result of who he was working for valuing that quality in his employees.I certainly would not. I do not think that the Saudis partners the Wahabbis would either.

@Kelly_Obrien He was contracting with the Pakistani intelligence service which it’s self was contracted to the CIA. I suspect we will never be allowed to hear him say why he did it or even if he did it. Did he even have the resources to pay those men at that time? Was he still being funded through Pakistan by the CIA? There are too many secrets here.
I still suspect that that 40,000 bomb that they dropped in Tora Bora put the end to Osama except as a convenient fiction.

Another thing I found in my reading. If Osama were in Iran today he would be very dead. They are worse enemies of him that the USA government is.

@walterallenhaxton what makes you think that being Saudi Arabian has anything to do with it?

@eponymoushipster Osama is Saudi and 18 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi in the first reports on the attack.

@walterallenhaxton so?

@eponymoushipster So when will the USA get the message and keep its troops out of places where they are not wanted?

probably not. but, then again, as we’ve seen since you last responded, people will also keep trying to blow things up – which is an interesting turn of events, since that guy was from a country that isn’t occupied by US forces.

@eponymoushipster We did bomb and kill people where he was going to school. I think that would upset many people in this country if somebody bombed their alma mater.
You don’t attack or bomb people in your personal life because they are your enemies or are running their mouths about what they would like to do to you. You go after them if they come and attack you. That is what he did.
Preventive war is the language of aggression.
As far as defense is concerned I think that they are way too easy on the pirates. I think that they should be destroyed as they attack. No waiting around.
They are just as much vermin as are mice or roaches and should be treated the same way. If they don’t really bother you then maybe you do nothing. If they insist on making a nuisance of themselves you exterminate them.

dehumanizing your opponent has been a very popular approach for a long time. I think Hitler did that, for example.