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ELI5 Why were we attacked on 9/11

there are people who say it is because they hate our values (like how we dress and whatever) but that seems too simplistic. What were the real events that led to the attack? Did America do something specifically bad? I hope this doesn't sound insensitive to the victims of 9/11 but i just wanna know if there is another side to the story that we probably don't hear about.
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* You have to go back to the origins of the Cold War. 
* The US made allies with some not-nice dictators because the US needed allies and resources to stay even keel with the USSR. 
* One of those dictators was the Shan of Iran, who gave us cheap oil. 
* Many of his people hated him, because he was sometimes brutal to them. The fundamentalist Muslims were particularly upset with him. 
* In the 1970s, the Shah got deathly ill. He came to the US to get medical care. 
* Then there was a fundamentalist revolution in Iran, and they wanted the Shah back to put him on trial. 
* The US said no, and then the Shah died. 
* Around the same time, two things happened. 1) The USSR invaded Afghanistan. 2) Iraq invaded Iran. 

* The US supported Iraq (led by Saddam Hussein) against Iran, and started training an underground militia in Afghanistan (including a young bloke named Osama bin Laden) to fight against the USSR
* Eventually, the Iraq Iran war ended in a stalemate. And the Afghan rebels forced the USSR to leave Afghanistan.
* The US then forgot all about Afghanistan, and let fundamentalism take over that region.
* Low on funds because of the lengthy war against Iran, Iraq decided to invade Kuwait (for its oil). 
* In a surprising 180 degree policy change, the US (led by GWH Bush) began calling their former friend Saddam Hussein evil. The US put together a military coalition to push Iraq out of Kuwait.
* But where to put the US troops? The only place available was Saudi Arabia (Osama bin Laden's homeland, and the site of Islam's most sacred sites). Note: Fundamentalist Muslims consider it blasphemous for non-Muslims to set foot on Saudi soil. 
* Fundamentalist Muslims from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan wanted the US off of Saudi land. 
* Two years after the US pushed Iraq out of Kuwait, Muslim fundamentalists blew up a car bomb in the basement of the world trade center. 6 people died. 1000 were injured. The US military continued its presence in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia.
* A few years later, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri co-signed a fatwa in the name of the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders which declared the killing of North Americans and their allies an "individual duty for every Muslim" to "liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem) and the holy mosque (in Mecca) from their grip".
* Later that year, hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at US embassies in the major East African cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. (they were linked to Osama bin Laden). The US increased its military presence in Middle East, including in Saudi Arabia.
* Two years later in Yemen, a small dingy carrying explosives rammed the destroyer U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39 others. Supporters of Bin Laden were involved. The US continued its military presence in Saudi Arabia, and its support of Israel.
* None of these terrorists attacks got the attention of US foreign policy. 
* The attack on 9/11, a few years after the attack on the Cole, had nothing to do with the fundamentalist muslim terrorists hating our values or our clothes or our music. These fundamentalists wanted the US off of Saudi soil, and out of Israeli affairs. The US would have none of that. 
* Take note: They did not target the Statue of Liberty. They did not target Disneyworld. They did not target the Olympics. Their attacks were on embassies in the Middle East, military sites, globalization financial centers, and the CIA head quarters.