leased -"Saddam didn't tolerate any extremist organisations"...

leased -
"Saddam didn't tolerate any extremist organisations" -
because he had one of his own - so effective that anyone daring even a whisper against it was dead meat.
(And many who didn't even whisper were slaughtered anyway - very often on a whim).

He and his physcopathic sons raped, murdered, and pillaged with impunity.

And even set out to gas the Kuwaitis during the Gulf War - and have their own (innocent) military officers wrongly made the scapegoats - and had THEM hung as the supposed culprits -

all the looting in Kuwait was engineered and directed by the Suddeins - they blamed THAt on their army too - all Iraquis were under the boot of this murderous tyranny -

in those early years Bin Laden was swanning around the world as just another wealthy Saudi businessman -the 25th (or so) hum-drum son of yet another mulit-billion $ Saudi iconic business family - nothing "special" then - he had a wife, and kids, and a fanatical obsession with money, social status, women knowing their "barefoot and in the kitchen" places, and the enforcement of the Sharia version of strictly dogmatic religion - (his ex-sister-in-law wrote a very revealing book about how ordinary and boring he was in actuality) -

Al Quaeda was in embryo stage - a black cloud on the horizon -

Money was nothing to Bin Laden - the thought of world revolution is much more grandiose in his over-inflated opinion of himself and his place in history.