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Nest's book the Untouchables, was more a Novel on what he did to tie up Capone while the IRS was preparing the Income tax case against Capone. If and when you read the book, understand what Nest's role was, he was NOT out to get Capone, but to tie up Capone's Resources. Nest;s confiscation of Capone's Trucks was the heart of the attack. That Confiscation so tied up Capone's operation s Capone's organization had to come up with trucks to replace the Trucks Nest confiscated in his raids (The trucks were all confiscated during raids were illegal alcohol was found on them, thus made them forfeit as an instrument of Crime).
Nest was one of a three way attack on Capone. The other was the Arrest of Capone for carrying a gun in Philadelphia in 1929 for which Capone served a year in Eastern State Penitentiary outside Philadelphia. Capone thus was out of the day to day operation of his "business" while Nest was going after Capone's Breweries AND trucks. Thus Capone was facing a three way attack, the first, and most effective, was the IRS looking into his income via how Capone was living, calculating Capone's income by the cost of his cars, his house (Actually a floor in a High end hotel), his clothing, his activities etc. This took a lot of manpower but no results for months and then slammed on Capone all at once in the indictment for Income Tax evasion.
The second attack was Capone's arrest on a Technical Charge and sentencing him to the Max sentence on that technical charge. That was the Charge of carrying a pistol without a permit in Philadelphia on his way from New York City to Chicago via the Pennsylvania Railroad (remember we are talking about the 1920s, airplanes were just starting and the First cross country Road to be paved was only finished in 1926 and went through Springfield Illinois NOT Chicago, not there were paved roads from US 30, the road finished in 1926, to Chicago, but most were paved over dirt roads NOT what we would call two lane highways let alone anything to compare with the interstate Highway system, thus most people went by Train, and why Capone was Caught with a Pistol in Philadelphia).
The third attack was at the production and distribution of Beer. This was Nest's job. This attack on been destruction and production was the least important from a conviction point of view, but it was the most obvious attack on Capone at the time of this three way attack. Thus Nest's name was in the News, Capone new of the Nest and what Nest was doing.
Compare the above with bin Laden. We have restricted his movements, but no where near how we restricted Capone's maneuver (i.e. bin Laden can still get messages out without having to use short coded messages, as Capone did, but bin Laden can NOT go where he wants to go or even where he is needed by his supporters. Do to Bush's need for any good news to the capture of bin Laden, Bush has revealed all of the methods we can use to capture bin Laden, and bin Laden has made sure he can NOT be traced. Bin Laden has no Cell Phone or Satellite phone, so it is impossible to track his where about using electronic surveillance.
Bin Laden does use a Computer and Video Tape, but he makes sure they are transmitted from his hideaway by foot messengers (or by car) and when the messages is far from bin Laden, the message is sent either by E-mail, or by Snail mail (and the old fashion phone booth drop is still used by bin Laden). The attempt to figure out what bin Laden is doing is hard. Bin Laden made use Al Queda was more a financing and leadership organization then a command organization. Bin Laden provides guidance and money, but actual implementation of any plan is left to people in the field. For 9/11 bin Laden knew of the date of the Attack (We know this for the CIA intercepted a Phone Call from him to one of the wives of his Father that he, bin Laden, would NOT be able to talk to her for a while, something big was about to happen). Bin Laden fled Afghanistan, but survive probably in Pakistan.
Thus Bush is reduced to doing what Nest did to Capone, tie up resources. The problem is sooner or later Bush is going to run out of Resources, while bin Laden still has his (bin Laden is reported to have a huge source of money from Saudi Arabia. Nest's (And Bush's) tactic of going after the resources of the enemy only work if you can dry up the source of the enemy's Resources. In the case of Nest, that was done by locking up Capone for a year on a Firearm Charge AND going after Capone on Income Tax evasion. How are we tying up bin Laden's resources? How many gallons of gasoline did you buy last month? In or around 9/11 when Gasoline was less then $2 a gallon, the report was 1-2 Cents a gallon was going to bin Laden. The reason for this was the House of Saud and the rest of the Arab Exporters from the Persian Gulf was paying bin Laden about 10 cents out of every gallon. Other countries did NOT pay this premium, thus if you add the two together it came to under 5 cents out of every gallon of oil sold through out the world.
The reasons for the payments is simple, the oil producing region of Saudi Arabia, the Arab Kingdoms of Kuwait, United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Barsa Region of Iraq and the rest of the Arab Persian Gulf Nations have a population problem. About 60-70% (and probably more, some sources say 90%) of these countries population are Shiite, while the leadership is Sunni. The Shiites look to Iran for Leadership and the Gulf. The leadership of these countries all fear Iran AND the majority of their population. If free elections were held, the people of these countries would pick pro-Iranian populations (As did Barsa region of Iraq when Elections were held after Iraq fell to the US, elections originally opposed by the US, but the Shiites forces the US to accept).
As to the Sunnis population of these areas, the Sunnis are all tied in with the ruling elite, but many have themselves turned radical, i.e. pro-bin Laden. The recent increase in the price of oil has permitted these Governments to pay off the Shiites and the Sunnis, but the ruling elite want to keep the Sunnis supporting the elite, and the Sunni radicals demand support for bin Laden. Thus all of these counties pay Al Queda money (probably via payments made to certain Sunni members of the Ruling elite, but with full knowledge that those members will send the money to bin Laden). For this reason the only way to cut off the money to bin Laden to to reduce world wide demand for oil, and the best way to do that is to reduce US demand. Bush absolutely oppose this for it would also hurt his oil buddies. Thus we are stuck with Elliot Nest tactic of 0going after Capone's trucks and breweries. Unfortunately, unlike Capone who had a problem getting Trucks and Brewers do o the fact the IRS was after him, bin Laden's source of money is almost untouched. We have to cut back oil usage so that the Persian Gulf Arab states have less money to send to bin Laden. Bush has done NOTHING to cut back oil usage, and will not, thus the war against bin Laden will continue and will end only when the US accept that we either have to cut back on imported oil OR the US goes Bankruptcy (And Bush is working on the last option).
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