The article also mentions this notable detail
Al Qaeda has tried to capitalize on what opinion polls show to be growing anti-American sentiment across the Muslim world. To broaden its appeal beyond Islamist extremists, it revised some of its rhetoric. It no longer rails, for example, against Yasser Arafat, whom it previously called a traitor.
In a series of video and audio statements, the most recent last month, Mr. bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, put the plight of Palestinians at the center of their agenda.
A review of hundreds of documents stored on the computer between 1997 and late 2001, however, reveals little interest in details of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and far more attention to events in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the home countries of Mr. bin Laden and Dr. Zawahr
Worth looking at the whole article, what a bunch of loonies !
One Acolyte of Many Vows To Die for al Qaeda Cause
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