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buy dramamine As they fled Afghanistan after 9/11 some of bin Laden???s followers wondered whether the attacks on the US had been a mistake. Among them was one of al-Qaida???s most acerbic writers, Abu Musab al-Suri. In public he backed bin Laden: privately he described him as an obstinate egotist. And he was scathing about the consequences of 9/11: ???The outcome, as I see it, was to put a catastrophic end to the jihadi current which started in the early 1960s.??? Al-Suri believed that the Afghan Taliban regime, the most religiously correct Islamic emirate in centuries, had been destroyed for the sake of a provocative attack on a country al-Qaida could not defeat. Before 9/11, the organisation???s training camps had processed a steady stream of highly motivated recruits. After the attacks it was on the run. Another senior al-Qaida figure, Abu al Walid al-Masri, put it even more bluntly. Bin Laden, he said, had led his followers to ???the abyss???.