PBin Laden's fabricated Jihad serves a partisan political purpose as does that of all the affiliated "Global Jihadis"...that being their political end game which is the creation of a pan-Islamic Kalipha based political model...preportedly, according to them, fabricated along the same lines as the "rightous Kalipha's" that exsisted in the wake of the Prophet's(PBUH) death!
Hizb-ut-Tahrir, also advocates for a similar system, however, vocally disavows OBL's methodolgy for attaining same...and if you listen and look carefully, you will find that , if talking to a HUT person, the conceptual design, regarding eugalitarianism, is quite different than we would expect to receive at the hands of a regime(Kalipha) headed by men such as OBL...which would make the Taliban(non-Kaliphists) seem like "cream puffs"!
In addition, OBL would pursue Global Jihad indefinately and until he and his "pac-man type of Kalipha"...had swallowed up any and all that were different than he...perpetual Jihad...only a sick mind would welcome same, or the mind of a totally outt'a touch religious fundoo!
The problems regarding the Afghan Taliban (non-Gobal Jihadi) were created by the void left after the Soviets were driven from Afghanistan and America's "abject failure" in providing suitible building blocks for Islamic democracy within Afghanistan!
Now, some Muslims...of the fundementalist school (not all by any means) would argue that democracy is at odds with Islam, I couldn;t disagree more and even the founder of the Islamic Revolution in Iran knew that much.
Although democracy has been hijacked by the Achmajinejad regime...it functioned well for a long time and the revolution's founder made sure to incorporate many democratic values and ideals into it's first constituion(for the Islamic Republic) even as he rejected calls to install a Kalipha by groups such as HUT?
Unfortunately, that successful Islamic democracy has now been effectively hijacked by hardline Mullahs and Revolutionary Guard military secularists!
Hence we see millions of Iranians taking to their rooftops at night chanting, as they did during the waning days of the Shah..."death to the dictator"!
Islam is "fully compatible with democracy"...which in fact enables an Islamic nation to magnify the finer points and qualities of Islam!