At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.
Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars, including one that didn't have to do with Al Qaeda? Probably not.
Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses while he was living in Abbottabad is simply risible. Bin Laden's principal goal was the overthrow of the Saudi royal family as a result of which his Saudi citizenship was revoked as far back as 1994.
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
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