It is said that the September 11 attacks were the biggest act of terror of all time. But this would only be that case if we only include non-state terror.
Many acts and campaigns of state terror surpass it, for example the nuclear annihilation of Japanese cities by the US in 1945, and the carpet-bombing of Dresden in World War 2.
Suharto’s CIA-backed and orchestrated coup in 1964 slaughtered a million people in Indonesia.
Millions of civilians were killed in US bombing in Korea and Vietnam. The USA dropped more bombs on Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam war than were dropped in the whole of the WW2.
US-sponsored "contra" terror squads killed 30,000 civilians in their campaign to oust Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.
17,500 civilians were killed in Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon
At least a million civilians, half of them children, have died in Iraq as a result of the embargo imposed by the US and Britain.
If Bin Laden is a terrorist he is not the biggest – even if he has done everything the US accuses him of doing.
The irony, in any case, is that Bin Laden was a creation of the CIA during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and the Taliban – accused of harbouring him – was brought to power by the US and its allies.
In fact the proxy war between the USA and the USSR in Afghanistan facilitated the development of well-trained, anti-socialist, Islamic militia network across the Middle East and further afield.