What resulted from the declaration of war and the alliance against Jews and crusaders?

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What will be an ideal response?

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Afghanistan was attractive to both bin Laden and al Zawahiri because the Taliban, led by Mullah Omar, took power in Kabul and instituted strict intolerant fundamentalist law. Bin Laden moved to Kandahar and established the organizational infrastructure of al Qaeda with his "Afghans," dissidents from multiple Muslim countries. Joined by Zawahiri and other fleeing Egyptians, he consolidated power and absorbed the new jihadists in his ranks. Then bin Laden made a most unusual declaration. Seated in front of a camera in 1996 with Zawahiri and al Qaeda's security director, Mohammed Atef, bin Laden declared war on the United States. In 1998, after absorbing EIJ and other radical groups, bin Laden and Zawahiri formed the World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders, and they ordered Muslims to kill Americans and their allies everywhere they found them. In August 1998, bin Laden's terrorists bombed the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Nairobi bomb killed 213 people and injured 4,500? the Dar es Salaam explosion killed 12 people and wounded 85 . These attacks signaled a new phase in al Qaeda terrorism. The Nairobi and Dar es Salaam bombs demonstrated how al Qaeda had matured. For the first time, the group could operate a cell planted in a country hundreds of miles away from al Qaeda training camps. It used sophisticated bombs and demonstrated complex planning. Then came the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, a failed millennial New Year's Day attack on Los Angeles International Airport, and then the attacks of September 11, 2001 . Despite al Qaeda's reputation as an international organization, bin Laden and Zawahiri failed to emerge as the masterminds of a worldwide terror organization? they served mainly as symbols. The 9/11 plot can be traced to another operative, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who planned the attack and put the people in place to carry it out.