Bin Laden’s war on the U.S. was rooted in the Saudi oil-protection presence

Evidence

Osama bin Laden’s terrorism against the United States also had an oil connection. Bin Laden was an ardent follower of the austere Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam. He deeply resented the presence of U.S. military forces protecting oil reserves in Saudi Arabia—the location of Islam’s two holiest places, Mecca and Medina—and the Saudi monarchy, whose legitimacy he challenged. He relocated to Sudan, where he set up training camps. Because of his activism, the Saudi regime stripped bin Laden of his citizenship and froze his assets in the kingdom. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2326

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the framing in The Reluctant Fundamentalist about anti-American sentiment arising from perceived U.S. intervention in Muslim lands. — connects to: Gulf oil monarchy security, not democracy, drives US Mideast policy; Protecting Saudi oil monarchy, not democracy, has driven US regional policy since WWII — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 381
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2326