"What happened after the 11th of September was beyond their imagination"

“I’m 100 percent sure they had no clue about what was going to happen,” says Noman Benotman, who was head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the summer of 2000.

“What happened after the 11th of September was beyond their imagination,” says Benotman, who adds that al-Qaida thought the U.S. was a “paper tiger.”