The Mosque to
Commerce
Bin Laden's special complaint with the World Trade Center.
By
Laurie Kerr
SLATE
Posted Friday,
December 28, 2001, at 8:58 AM PT
We all know the basic reasons why Osama Bin
Laden chose to attack the World Trade Center, out of all the buildings in New
York. Its towers were the two tallest in the city, synonymous with its skyline.
They were richly stocked with potential victims. And as the complex's name
declared, it was designed to be a center of American and global commerce. But
Bin Laden may have had another, more personal motivation. The World Trade
Center's architect, Minoru Yamasaki, was a favorite designer of the Binladin
family's patrons—the Saudi royal family—and a leading practitioner of an
architectural style that merged modernism with Islamic influences.
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