Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S.

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Bob Frankston <rmfxixB0406 () bobf frankston com>
Date: November 1, 2004 9:02:31 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
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

 

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"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.

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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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