Gene Healy asks the same question as the Ron Paul campaign:

And my God, Giuliani is contemptible. Jumping in after Paul dared suggest that American foreign policy had something to do with the rise of Al Qaeda, he said (paraphrasing): “that’s an extraordinary statement. I’ve heard a lot of absurd things. But I’ve never heard anyone suggest that us bombing Iraq for 10 years had anything to do with 9/11,” then went on to demand a retraction from Paul.

Maybe Giuliani should crack a book about Al Qaeda. Here’s the ‘98 Fatwa for example:

First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.

If some people have in the past argued about the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula have now acknowledged it. The best proof of this is the Americans’ continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, but they are helpless.

Remember, the war on terror, Giuliani says, is something he understands “better than anyone else running for president.”