Bin Laden’s 2001 post-9/11 speech placed Palestinian cause at center of Islamist demands...

Rawan Osman highlights Osama bin Laden’s first post-9/11 statement aired by Al Jazeera on October 7, 2001. Bin Laden cited Jenin, Ramallah, and Beit Jalla and conditioned U. S.

security on security in Palestine. The post frames the speech as evidence that the Palestinian cause served as the central grievance in Islamist ideology, used to justify violence and shift global focus from the attacks themselves.