According to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, " Since Iraq could not defeat the U.S.military, it resorted to terror attacks on U.S. citizens."(Source D) According to thissame lawsuit a writer under the name Naeem Abd Muhalhal described bin Laden thinking "seriously, with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert, about the way he will try to bomb the pentagon after he destroys the White HOuse." (Source D)