Learning More History
I didn't know about this Muslim history, but sounds like it wasn't well covered in the west.
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https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112051155
Sounds like this event, basically directly lead to the two components of al-Qaida today.
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https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112051155
Sounds like this event, basically directly lead to the two components of al-Qaida today.
INSKEEP: At this point, Osama bin Laden would've been a very rich young man, unknown to the world.
Mr. TROFIMOV: Exactly. He was just leaving college at the time. And he later remembered these times. And when he was reminiscing about this time, he said that he was shocked to see the tanks rolling into the holiest shrines of Islam, and he had thought that the Saudi government was behaving criminally by this by desecrating the shrine instead of just starving out the rebels.
And for him, this was the moment when his loyalty to the Saudi regime, which has done so much for his father and his family, began to crumble.
Mr. TROFIMOV: Exactly. He was just leaving college at the time. And he later remembered these times. And when he was reminiscing about this time, he said that he was shocked to see the tanks rolling into the holiest shrines of Islam, and he had thought that the Saudi government was behaving criminally by this by desecrating the shrine instead of just starving out the rebels.
And for him, this was the moment when his loyalty to the Saudi regime, which has done so much for his father and his family, began to crumble.
