Why did Osama bin Laden attack World Trade Center?

Answer 1

The accepted wisdom that the US was attacked was to punish the US, its military (the Pentagon) and its economic power (the WTC), and in particular for the historic and ongoing US support of the state of Israel and Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people. This is the basis for the recruitment of Muslim militants and militant groups to plan and carry out terrorism around the world and, in particular, against the US.

However, terrorist acts like that the attacks on the Pentagon and the WTC never succeed in bringing about a change for the better, never. They invariably create situations far worse than what is claimed by their perpetrators, always. This fact easily escapes an average terrorist, especially the young, the angry, the disenfranchised. But Osama bin Laden was none of these things; he was an educated, intelligent man who knew a lot about the world. Why did he spend much of his wealth and the lives of so many young Muslims on a mission of destruction to intensify discrimination of Muslims? We can only speculate. Bin Laden's actions are typical of megalomania; he spent so much and sacrificed so many on his altar of aggrandizement, his place in history.