Was bin Laden surprised by the US response to 9/11/01?

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What a weird thread. It isn't even established that Bin Laden knew about or organized 9/11; he was surprised by it!

We have his own admission:

A tape aired by Al-Jazeera television in October, 2004, showed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden admitting that he orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and saying the United States could face more attacks. Bin Laden said he thought of the method of attacking U.S. skyscrapers when he saw Israeli aircraft bombing tower blocks in Lebanon in 1982. "We decided to destroy towers in America," he said. "God knows that it had not occurred to our mind to attack the towers, but after our patience ran out and we saw the injustice and inflexibility of the American-Israeli alliance toward our people in Palestine and Lebanon, this came to my mind."

Let's see, you've called the FBI's handling of videotapes at the Pentagon an "admission" when they didn't actually admit anything....I wonder what you will call an actual, literal, admission?

It was probably just spin.