The details of Osama's strategy, expressed in his recent video, haven't gotten much coverage -- until now. What's OBL's real plan? Continue the war in Iraq until it
bankrupts the USA.
"Bin Laden said "every dollar of al-Qaeda defeated a million dollars by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs.''
The Bush policy of mounting a global war on terror has made it easy for al-Qaeda to "bait'' the U.S. government, bin Laden said.
"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 the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies,'' bin Laden said, according to the al-Jazeera transcript."
It worked against the Russians in Afghanistan, after all. Guess who's winning this one?