Yeah, Bin Laden was engaging in a bit of PR with those statements. In such circumstances people always try to take as much credit as they can, no matter how exa

Yeah, Bin Laden was engaging in a bit of PR with those statements. In such circumstances people always try to take as much credit as they can, no matter how exaggerated it is. And for Bin Laden that war was probably center of his universe. For the USSR it might have been kind of a big deal, but probably not the only issue they were dealing with worldwide and domestically. Bin Laden was probably never that concerned with representing that accurately, you know, because who's going to set him straight?