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What reason do Islamic terrorists give for attacking the United States?

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it was a campaign of revenge and deterrence motivated by Osama Bin Laden witnessing of the destruction in the Lebanese civil war in 1982

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Answer: In Osama bin Laden's November 2002 "Letter to America", he explicitly stated that al-Qaeda's motives for their attacks include: Western support for attacking Muslims in Somalia, supporting Russian atrocities against Muslims in Chechnya, supporting the Indian oppression against Muslims in Kashmir, the Jewish aggression.

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