BinLaden is just a skilled capitalist

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IT'S NOT ISLAM, STUPID. It bothers me that we have wasted four years trying to fight the war on terror by infiltrating mosques, eyeing Muslims with suspicion, and forcing loyal Arab Americans to do everything except take a McCarthy-style loyalty oath. The would be like fighting the John Gotti crime family by infiltrating Our Lady of Sorrows Church and wiretapping the pope.

Osama and his ilk are no more Muslims than David Koresh was a Seventh Day Adventist--something he claimed to be until the day he died ... died in what was essentially a mass-casualty suicide bombing. We need to get our heads out of the minarets, and if we really want to understand these groups, study cultic organizations, especially those who mix religion, subservience, and suicide, like Marshall Applewhite's "Heaven's Gate" cult. That's a lot closer to Al-Qaeda than Friday service at a mosque.

My guess is that Osama is more a student of Machiavelli than Muhammad, and like demagogues throughout the ages, from Louis XIV to Jim Jones, he has realized that the best route to the power and influence he covets is by playing on followers' fears for their eternal soul.

FOLLOW THE MONEY. Deep Throat's famous exhortation is just as valid today as it was thirty years ago. We need to realize that we're not fighting a religious or a political force, what we're up against is Terror, Inc., in which a group of sharp businessmen have learned to make a killing by, well, making a killing.

The Don Corleone of this outfit, the creator of this business model of murder, was, of course, the execrable Yasser Arafat, who was the first to realize that he could mix religion, charisma, and the Muslim world's deep rooted sense of inferiority to convince gullible young men, and a few women, to die so he could make money.

When Arafat passed last fall, his net worth was conservatively estimated at two billion, with a 'b' dollars. Since then, numerous cunning creeps from Osama to Al-Zarqawi have also figured out that all they need to do is act Islamic, fill the heads of gullible followers with a mishmash of religious lies and promises of personal reward (the 73 virgins business appears nowhere in the Holy Qu'ran), send them out on 'martyrdom operations' and watch the cash roll in.

British media have very thoroughly pointed out how the mullahs who urged their impressionable followers to bomb the London subway system were basically running a complicated welfare fraud scheme. Hey, we can hate the west all we want, just as long as we don't have to stop taking money from it. It has been pointed out that not a single Al-Qaeda or Islamic fundamentalist leader, or any of their own children, has ever strapped on a suicide bomb belt. They're more interested in the rewards of this life, they'll leave the next to the suckers, er, soldiers.

DELIVER A MESSAGE OF HOPE. When the series of sniper attacks terrorized Washington D.C. in the fall of 2002 (and probably terrified more people, in the actual sense of the word 'terror,' than anything Al-Qaeda has ever done), the experts pointed out immediately that this was not the work of Al-Qaeda for one overriding reason: In the world of Islamo-fascism, like in any dictatorial society, the individual is worthless, and Al-Qaeda would not waste its time and resources killing individual people.

Being a member of an Islamo-fascist terror cell is in reality the 21st-century version of slavery. These are people who have enslaved themselves, people who have been convinced that their only worth as a human being is to die for the benefit of the rich and powerful.

While it is right to stage a muscular response to terrorist threats, we should behave as Lincoln behaved. While fighting terrorism as he fought the Civil War against another, equally grotesque form of slavery, we should also take with us a new Emancipation Proclamation. We should convince the young men and women of the Muslim world that we offer them an alternative where the individual has meaning beyond senseless destruction, that they can make a difference for good and not just for evil. That is the message America has put out for 200 years, and it remains the most powerful message we have to give to these truly enslaved people today.

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[Massacure]

1. Damn straight. Recommended!

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2. CIA director described Bin Laden as a "venture capitalist" in January

Good post, thanks for that. The "venture capitalist" theory seems to stand up more than the "terrorist mastermind" theory which some continue to perpetuate.

From the Sunday Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1431539,00.html

Krongard, 68, said he viewed Bin Laden “not as a chief executive but more like a venture capitalist”.

He added: “Let’s say you and I want to blow up Trafalgar Square. So we go to Bin Laden. And he’ll say, ‘Well, here’s some money and some passports and if you need weapons, see this guy’.

“I don’t see him keeping his fingers on everything because the lines of communications are just too difficult.”

As anyone who watched and understood the BBC documentary, "The Power of Nightmares" would know, "Al Qaeda" as a "terrorist organisation" with a distinctive hierarchical structure doesn't actually exist:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm

And we have conslusive proof from that Bin Laden video filmed in mid November 2001 that Bin Laden himself acknowledges that he only found out the attacks of 9/11 were only going to take place the previous Thursday. From the CNN transcript:
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/12/13/tape.transcript/

UBL: We were at (...inaudible...) when the event took place. We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day. We had finished our work that day and had the radio on. It was 5:30 p.m. our time. I was sitting with Dr. Ahmad Abu-al-((Khair)). Immediately, we heard the news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We turned the radio station to the news from Washington. The news continued and no mention of the attack until the end. At the end of the newscast, they reported that a plane just hit the World Trade Center.

[Amonester]

3. They're only in it for the money. The Neo-Conservatives too.

And so does "The Disaster pResident." (Spread the label around)

Recommend.



Welcome to DU!! :hi:

[CJCRANE]

4. Bin Laden's an international gangster.

The Saudi govt apparently paid him $200 million protection money to leave them alone.

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5. Maybe someone can explain to me

the difference in a guy who uses terror to profit and our President?

I see no difference.

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7. Bin Laden is taller. nt

[Frederik]

6. You're wrong about Arafat

though you're right about Bin Laden (the "mad Arab in a cave" image is media nonsense). Arafat, unlike Bin Laden, lived like a monk. He didn't use any of the money he earned on himself. On the contrary, he invested it in small businesses in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon which gave unemployed Palestinians a purpose in their lives. He didn't "convince gullible young men, and a few women, to die so he could make money".