You know, it’s great when an evil person declares he will do evil but then everything just starts backfiring because of it. Karma is wonderful but terrible at the same time. In “Paradise Lost” the 10th chapter of “The Looming Tower,” we see that everything is slowly falling apart for bin laden. However, he’s far from done. Today, we’ll be talking about a point in which bin laden was essentially cast away.
So as we know, bin Laden decided to place himself in Sudan in 1992. Sudan had always been a poor country even till this day and they loved the wealth that bin laden brought. Bin Laden still did work with Al-Qaeda and he saw the “fragility” of US forces after taking credit from others attacks on US forces (Are you kidding?). This helped boost bin Laden’s confidence and he decided to work his way into this idea that the US was actually just frail and weak. Sooner or later, as we learned, al-Zawahiri was running out of money to support al-jihad and decided to merge reluctantly with bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda. Ali Mohammad, a person working under al-Zawahiri proved to be very useful as an undercover US troop. Al-Qaeda soon turned to suicide bombing, attacks, and justified killing of innocents. By 1994, bin Laden had been doing ridiculous things with his wealth and power. He soon was rejected by many including King Fahd, who personally revoked laden’s Saudi citizenship. With his diminishing wealth, power, and trust, Bin laden decided to head towards the path of no return and betrayal. He would blame the US for everything that occurred. Despite this huge loss of power, he was determined to destroy the very thing he blamed.
So yeah, um bin Laden decided to turn against us because he just wanted to take his anger out on something? Well, I guess he did deserve everything that happened. Recently, I’ve been reading a book along with some classmates named “Flatland” in which many of us realized that the author was criticizing the people of higher status saying that when they possess too much power, they start to become ignorant. You know what? That’s exactly what’s happening here and that’s really the moral of “Paradise Lost.”