Richard Miniter

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TRIGGERnometry · 9/11: The Full Story, 25 Years On with Richard Miniter · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

If they die in Afghanistan, they're a holy martyr and they're not our problem.

Uh and if they don't die, they will be busy for a long time and not causing problems here at home.

This creates an opportunity for a young scion of a construction magnate named Osama bin Laden.

Osama bin Laden is forged by

two things in his life.

In order to get his father's attention as a young boy,

He had he did two things that stood out among all of the other children.

Otherwise, most weeks of the year he was all but ignored.

But on Friday after Juma prayers

He when his father would gather with other adult men.

And seven, eight, nine year old Osama would be summoned to recite portions of the Quran from memory.

So he memorized the Quran as a way to command attention and to get his father's approval.

This is the very beginning before he gets introduced to the radical philosophy.

Of Adulla Azam and of the Muslim Brotherhood and of other radical groups.

And I don't want to get down too many rabbit holes, but Al Qaeda is not.

A direct descendant of one thing, but the fusion of many things.

Uh the other the other way he got his father's attention, and this is important.

Is that for one, sometimes two weeks a year, depending on the year?

The head of the family would take all of the extended family, including Yalu Sama, into the desert to live in tents without human comforts.

And unless

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