[IP] Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Bob Frankston <rmfxixB0406@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 1, 2004 9:02:31 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape/
And he has a perfect foil. It works very well with a conservative
strategy to use “tax relief”, AKA starving the government of funds so
it cannot afford social programs. But that is in conflict with fighting
a war – so that detail is ignored.
From the article
…..
"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point
east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order
to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic
and political losses without their achieving anything of note other
than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said.
….
As part of the "bleed-until-bankruptcy plan," bin Laden cited a British
estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks
of September 11, 2001, an amount that he said paled in comparison with
the costs incurred by the United States.
"Every dollar of al Qaeda defeated a million dollars, by the permission
of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs," he said. "As for
the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers
estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.
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