Scott Horton

And the second reason was American support for Israel in their merciless persecution of the Palestinians and the Lebanese.

That's the most articulate justification I've ever heard for al-Qaeda in my life.

But let's... It's not a justification.

I'm not saying that makes what they did right.

I'm saying...

That was how bin Laden recruited his foot soldiers to attack this country was by citing American foreign policies that were directly to the detriment of the people of the Middle East and specifically our support for Israel.

And I've never heard a pro... In fact, I take that back.

There's one guy, a liberal from The Nation magazine named Eric Alterman is the only pro-Israel guy I've ever heard say, well, that may be true, but I still say we got to support Israel anyway.

The others, they'll just pretend that Terry McDermott never wrote that book, that Lawrence Wright never wrote that book, that Muhammad Atta had no motive to turn on the United States except for Muhammad made him do it, when in fact what it was is it was the ultraviolence of Shimon Peres and artillery officer Naftali Bennett slaughtering women and children.

that turned America's mercenaries.

America backed the Arab Afghan army in Afghanistan, in Bosnia, in Kosovo, and in Chechnya, as I demonstrate in my book.

And yet, as he correctly says, they turned on us all through the 1990s.

Bill Clinton was still backing them anyway, after they were attacking us and including at Khobar Towers.

And they were doing that.

This was a bin Ladenite plot, not Hezbollah, not the Shiites.

This was the bin Ladenites getting

Revenge against us for support for Israel and being too close to their local dictators that they wanted to overthrow, namely the king of Saudi and the El Presidente of Egypt.

That is the cause of the September 11th attack against the United States.

Not the Taliban hate freedom, but the bin Ladenites hate American support for Israel and America adopting policies, Israeli-centric policies like Martin Indyk's.

dual containment policy in 1993.