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Why Bin Laden Chose WTC

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
16 January 2002 - 2:00pm

Laurie Kerr suggests that Osama Bin Laden may have had a more personal and architectural reason for attacking the World Trade Center towers.

"Bin Laden may have had another, more personal motivation [for attacking the World Trade Center towers]. The World Trade Center's architect, Minoru Yamasaki, was a favorite designer of the Binladin family's patrons—the Saudi royal family—and a leading practitioner of an architectural style that merged modernism with Islamic influences...Having rejected modernism and the Saudi royal family, it's no surprise that Bin Laden would turn against Yamasaki's work in particular."

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Source: Slate, December 28, 2001
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