CTV News is reporting emails from Momin Khawaja will be allowed into evidence during his trial in Canada as a co-conspirator with British terrorists. Khawaja is accused of financing and facilitating terrorism, along with the charge he also built a remote control device for use in bomb attacks planned in a nightclub, shopping center and electrical and gas facilities.
The premise is stunning, and the "plan" appears to be working by the current state of the US economy.
Did we play right into their hands?
The Judge, Justice Douglas Rutherford, called the accusations against Khawaja "sinister and chilling". The emails were sent to a "one-time fiance" of Khawaja and outline a plot to undermine western economies by waging an "Economic Jihad"...
From CTV News...
"Khawaja claimed in an Oct. 24, 2003, email that the United States was leading a treacherous plot against Islam meant to plunder the wealth of Muslims and wipe out entire nations.
"So we have to come up with a way that we can drain their economy of all its resources, cripple their industries, and bankrupt their systems in place, all so that they are forced to withdraw their troops, so they cannot afford to wage war . . . .
"We need constant economic J, blow after blow, until they cripple and fall, never to rise again.""
http://www.ctv.ca/...
And if we remember back, Bin Laden had mentioned this 10 years ago...
From Think Progress...
"In a 1998 interview, Osama bin Laden — the terrorist organizer of 9/11 who still roams free — listed as one of his many grievances against the U.S. that Americans "have stolen $36 trillion from Muslims" by purchasing oil from Persian Gulf countries at low prices. The real price of a barrel of oil should be $144, bin Laden demanded.
Ten years ago today, the price of a barrel of oil was just $11. Heading into this holiday weekend, the price of a barrel of oil rested at $144 — a thirteen-fold increase.
One month after 9/11, the New York Times wrote of possible "nightmare" scenarios that would deliver bin Laden’s goal. Neela Banerjee warned that among the "misguided decisions" that would put oil supplies at risk would be "that the United States attacks Iraq." The Times included this quote in its story:
"If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he’d turn off the tap," said Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance Company, a consulting firm in Washington. "He said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel" — about six times what it sells for now."
Iraq, Afghanistan...simply a way to bring America to her financial knees!
THIS, I submit, is the REAL WAR!
Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last May, Anne Korin, the co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, reminded Congress about bin Laden’s goal:
[A]bout ten years ago, Osama bin Laden stated that his target price for oil is $144 a barrel and that the American people, who allegedly robbed the Muslim people of their oil, owe each Muslim man, woman, and child $30,000 in back payments. At the time, $144 a barrel seemed farfetched to most. [...]
I would like to impress upon this Committee that $144 a barrel oil will be perceived as a victory for the Jihadist movement and a reaffirmation that the economic warfare component of its campaign against the West is a resounding success. There is no need to elaborate on the implications of such a victory in terms of loss of U.S. prestige and our ability to prevail in the Long War of the 21st century.
Indeed, ten years later, a mission accomplished for bin Laden.
http://thinkprogress.org/...