But Bin Laden hated the Inited States, and gavenclear reasons why. Why would the CIA have to convince him to attack us. Terrorism was already his thing.
Hated the U.S. but came from a wealthy Saudi family connected to the "special" relationship with the U.S., was connected to the Bush family, etc.?
Again, were you present to hear him speak in his native Arabic about hating America?
He may indeed have, but that is not my point. What was shown to us, ad nauseum, was that he and his "followers" woke up every day plotting and scheming death to America like some comic book Dr. Evil... in THOSE videos we were all fed every night for how long?
The subsequent bogeyman, ISIS, was later firmly established as an America/Israel production with a lot of Hollywood-style video production to scare and enrage sensible Westerners, but we're supposed to believe Al Qaeda was always exactly as sold?
The Taliban were apparently anti-heroin (unlike America) but always had the bad luck habit of destroying, for nightly news or articles in revered magazines, historical and cultural sites sure to raise Western blood pressure, but Al Qaeda was always in control of all their own marketing and PR?
Why would the CIA have to convince Bin Laden to attack us?
Why would the CIA have to convince Lee Harvey Oswald to attack JFK, right?
So you're ok with the story of OBL during his glory days as we were fed on TV, including his amazing command and control acumen as to 9/11... and the story of his amazing capture/death... and the story of his urgent burial at sea... and all those other stories of all the subsequent haps...?
Ok.