“On [[September 11 attacks|9/11], bin Laden and his allies were thinking of avenging the [[w:Granada War|end of Muslim rule in Spanish Andalusia in 1492; of the historic humiliation of the Ottoman army at Vienna in 1683; of the fall of the Caliphate in 1922; and of the intolerable presence since 1990 of US troops in Saudi Arabia, land of the sacred sites of Medina and Mecca. We, in contrast, were thinking of what to have for supper.”