Department of Defense head Donald Rumsfeld and his lieutenant, Paul Wolfowitz, were committed to striking Saddam Hussein as soon as possible, claiming his presence upset the entire Middle East and made it a hotbed for recruiting potential terrorists. ...

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Bin Laden, a Saudi, speaks out frequently against Israel, but for him the real problem is the U.S. troop presence in his country dating to the military buildup before the 1991 Gulf War precipitated by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait (Time magazine, October 2001 Beyer, Lisa pg 45). ...

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