Here's my thought.......a prelude to war(on an intelligence basis)..
We all saw the Al Qaeda training videos on CNN....a whole bunch of guys running around shooting at targets in their nice jungle greens.....jungle greens?...the country...the whole middle east has like what...3 bushes...
With the exception of the wealthy....I think the rest of the country spends most of it's time fighting over the same watering hole....
If they were so well funded and "in tune with the war"....why weren't they wearing desert camaflouge....their jungled green could'a been seen from a satellite circling Mars.
My point...as anyone in business knows, the farther away the plan is from the team...the weaker the team. Osama was no where near them...not by blocks or miles....I would guess not even by countries.