{"id":1439,"date":"2004-11-02T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bin-laden-aims-to-bankrupt-united-states\/"},"modified":"2004-11-02T10:59:56","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:59:56","slug":"bin-laden-aims-to-bankrupt-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bin-laden-aims-to-bankrupt-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Bin Laden aims to bankrupt United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bin Laden aims to bankrupt United States – (United Press International)<\/a><\/p>\n

The complete transcript of Osama bin Laden’s most recent videotape reveals his intention to attempt to bankrupt the United States.<\/p>\n

The Arabic-language network al-Jazeera aired portions of the videotape Friday, but released the full transcript of the tape on its Web site Monday to dispel rumors it had edited out direct threats.<\/p>\n

Among comments not released until Monday, bin Laden said: “We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy,” adding it was “easy for us to provoke and bait this administration.”<\/p>\n

As part of the “bleed-until-bankruptcy plan,” bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al-Qaida about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an amount he said paled in comparison with the costs incurred by the United States.<\/p>\n

“Every dollar of al-Qaida defeated a million dollars, by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs,” he said.<\/p>\n

U.S. intelligence officials confirmed Monday the transcript made public Monday was a complete one, CNN reported.<\/p>\n

Bin Laden learned this technique from Ronald Raygun who put the US in a race to bankruptcy with the Soviets, who lost. Another reason to DUMP BUSH! mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bin Laden aims to bankrupt United States – (United Press International) The complete transcript of Osama bin Laden’s most recent videotape reveals his intention to attempt to bankrupt the United States. The Arabic-language network al-Jazeera aired portions of the videotape Friday, but released the full transcript of the tape on its Web site Monday to … Continue reading Bin Laden aims to bankrupt United States<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}