He Won

His planes won the twins.

Like I said, he won. And it goes beyond the actual act of killing terrorists. He forced the US to start a "war against terrorism" which let's just say has resulted him in winning on so many levels it's beyond frightening. Psychological warfare. Economic warfare. Cultural warfare. Propaganda warfare. Geopolitical warfare. Political Ideology warfare. The endless anti-Israelism and antisemitism that already existed but was suddenly articulated through his lens/language/framing and magnified a million times over the whole globe over. Almost the entire globe articulates his political ideology on everything and they don't even realize it. He won the brainwashing war. Osama Bin Laden was 100% right about many many many many things. And also 100% wrong about several things. 9/11 forced a military response that allowed everything he threatened and predicted to come true. I felt this way starting 19 years ago (shortly before the 9/11 attacks) and the feeling has done nothing but strengthen exponentially each and every day all-year-round year after year. I've read his "Letter to America" (and all his other older fatwas) once a year every year for years now and it's as clear as day every time: he won.