What Motivated Al Qaeda's Attacks on the United States on September

question 18

Multiple Choice

What motivated Al Qaeda's attacks on the United States on September 11,2001?

• A) Its desire to initiate an era of democracy and religious tolerance in the Middle East
• B) Its wish to rid the Middle East of Western influences
• C) Its hope that the attack would force the United States to launch an attack on Iraq
• D) Its desire to retaliate for the United States' support of the Soviet Union in the Soviet-Afghan conflict of the 1980s

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