No flies on Osama bin ladin

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Fairly humdrum article but with one real stand out section

By that analysis, Iraq and now Afghanistan suggest Al Qaeda isn't doing badly.

Oh, from their standpoint they think they are doing quite well. The world economic financial crisis we are going through now is exactly what Osama bin Ladin predicted would happen when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began.

Really?

Yes, he warned that the "bleeding wars"—as Al Qaeda refers to them—were going to produce economic chaos in the West. And he pointed specifically to the home-mortgage bubble in the United States. For this he was parodied by many here at the time.

For a medievalist cave dweller, he sure knows his economic fundamentals.

[Mumpo]

No flies on Osama bin ladin

he warned that the "bleeding wars"—as Al Qaeda refers to them—were going to produce economic chaos in the West. And he pointed specifically to the home-mortgage bubble

Any references to back this up?

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

No flies on Osama bin ladin

this only refers to it obliquely but it is the funniest.

here is some of his general chat about his strategy. For some reason this speech helped bush even though he's just bursting his hole laughing at him

[tracteurgarcon]

No flies on Osama bin ladin

Jami Miscik, CIA deputy associate director for intelligence,

I really, really, really hope that name is pronounced Jammy Miskick.

[Incandenza]

No flies on Osama bin ladin

tratorello wrote:

Jami Miscik, CIA deputy associate director for intelligence,

I really, really, really hope that name is pronounced Jammy Miskick.

I'm guessing it sounds like "Jamie Miss-Chick."

[The Purple Cow]

No flies on Osama bin ladin

"For a medievalist cave dweller, he sure knows his economic fundamentals."

:l Qae'da are absolutely not medievilists. The Taliban are, which is one of the many reasons why :l Qae'da and the Taliban despise each other.

Osama is pretty clued up, of course he has a deeply petty, conservative world view, in his web rants he's constantly complaining about how long it takes the Saudi Government to pay civil contractors for instance, but he does keep up.