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Bin laden launched those attacks based on his resentment of u.s policy. In peter bergens brilliant book "The osama bin laden I now" he quotes Osama as saying if he hated the western culture so much he would attacked sweden instead. It wasn't about "hating the our freedom" as bush would put it but rather u.s foreign policy in lebanon, iran, iraq etc etc. I think events like these in iraq just allow a further justification for the iraq insurgency to grab recruits.