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...curriculum is liberal and Western oriented; its students, the daughters of Pakistan's elite, look upon the U.S. as a second home, a place where relatives routinely find success. These are kids who should love America but don't. After the towers fell, their loyalties were firmly with Osama bin Laden. "There were girls in my class who loved him," says Sana. "We all thought Osama was a champion of downtrodden Muslims...
Between classes, the girls passed around magazines with bin Laden photographs. Some swooned over his "soulful" eyes. They saw him as a man who had walked away from an air-conditioned palace to live in a cave in Afghanistan and avenge the wrongs committed against Muslims. "He was our Robin Hood," says Sana. "Some of my friends defended bin Laden because they thought he carried out the bombings, while others defended him because they thought the U.S. was accusing him unjustly." Sana belonged to the latter camp...
...October, as the U.S. began its Afghan-bombing campaign, public opinion in Pakistan turned against America. Sana did too. At stoplights near the Lahore bazaar, she saw vendors hawking bin Laden shirts and posters. She watched protesters spill into the streets, and though she didn't buy the bin Laden paraphernalia or attend the bin Laden demonstrations, she found herself agreeing with him. "This was hypocrisy. Why is an Afghan's life worth any less than an American's?" she asks. She felt revulsion at the U.S. air strikes, which left hundreds of Afghans dead and thousands more wounded...
After Sana saw ground zero with her own eyes, her romantic view of bin Laden began to harden. "At first I couldn't believe that he was behind these gruesome attacks," she says. But the video released in December, which shows him gloating over the destruction, turned Sana against him. "He thought he was a savior of Muslims, but he was warped and wrong," she says...
...that cause, they search for a way to ennoble it in the eyes of ordinary people who do not share their holy delusion but whose admiration they crave. They know that most people respect logic and reason. So they go looking for a nationalistic cause: this is what Osama bin Laden did when he claimed the Palestinian cause as a justification for the destruction of Sept...