Why Bin Laden Chose WTC

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

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January 16, 2002, 2:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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 patronsthe Saudi royal familyand 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."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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