Reports: Jordan To Execute Extremist After Pilot Burned Alive

[George II]

16. Sometime I'll post a chronology of why and how this brutally extreme "terrorism" came about....

.....going back to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and a young Osama bin Laden.

But, in all honesty, you're not too far off. The thing is that this has been festering for 25+ years.

Osama bin Laden was actually an ally of the US (such as he could be) during the Soviet war/occupation, and was still not an enemy of the US until the 1991 Gulf War. President Bush was warned over and over again to NOT station American troops on sacred land in Saudi Arabia. He ignored the warnings.

See the article linked below:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f121310_gulfwar

The war that first introduced Americans to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein—and may have given Osama bin Laden a reason to attack the United States—began on Jan. 17, 1991.
American and coalition forces, responding to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, bombed Iraqi targets and troops for a month. By the time the ground war began on Feb. 24, Saddam Hussein's forces were so decimated that it took just 100 hours to oust them from Kuwait and trounce the remnants of Iraq's once-mighty military.

The Persian Gulf War, fought 20 years ago next month, turned out to be one of the swiftest wars in U.S. history.

But its effects still linger: Because Saddam Hussein remained in power, the Gulf War is now seen as a prelude to the second Iraq War, which began in 2003—and is still winding down more than seven years later.

The Gulf War also set the stage for the current war in Afghanistan and America's broader battle against Islamic terrorism: The presence of "infidel" U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia during the 1990s helped radicalize Osama bin Laden and the other leaders of Al Qaeda, who vowed to target America at home and abroad.