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...... In the aftermath of 9/11, greater speculation has been held to both the nature and identity of the attacks perpetrators, and in particular such key Al-Qaeda figures as Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Evidence yielded here suggests that these individuals and associated groups had been explicit in their motives and intentions well before the attacks. So is this captured by the Sageman text, which tells of an important transition in bin Ladens political strategy for Muslim liberation. Thus, on February 23, 1998, the fatwa of the World Islamic Front declaring Jihad against Jews and Crusaders became the manifesto of the full-fledged global Salafi jihad. In this document, bin Laden extended his previous concept of jihad from a defensive to an offensive one. The global Salafi jihad now carried the fight to the far enemy (the United States and the West in general) on its own territory or in third country territory. (Sageman, 19)
This message would be eerily similar in its tone and objectives to the statement which accompanied the first attacks on the World Trade Center. In 1994, a plot perpetrated by many of the same men who would mastermind the attacks on the same buildings 7

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