You ever think that maybe Bin Laden attacked us because he hated Wall Street?

[dkf]

I am finally beginning to get what Bush etal meant about him hating us because of our way of life.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. huh?

I give no credence to anything Bush ever said..sorry :yoiks:

[dkf]

12. Maybe he was early to the "hate wall street" thing.

He did aim for the Twin Towers after all where most of our financial services firms are. Maybe he hated the way capitalism distributes resources.

[Webster Green]

26. No shit! +1000

It's just as likely that The Big Dick did 9/11.

Osama was one of our guys back in the late '70s and early '80s.





He got pissed about US bases in his shithole Saudi homeland, but there's no proof that he attacked us on 9/11.

[dkf]

32. I used to be slightly suspicious about 9/11

But after realizing how this world really works there is no way some rogue US entity would have bucked against the powers that be.

[begin_within]

2. Did he lose a lot in the dot com crash?

[customerserviceguy]

30. I heard he lost his ass

in the donkey futures commodities market.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. I'm thinking bin Ladin sells heroin to bush' family is probably more likely

but what do i know?

[quinnox]

4. No

:wtf:

[Drale]

5. No he attacked us because

we had troops in Saudi Arabia and he didn't like it, he's like a little kid. You're in my room so I'm going to destroy your room.

[dkf]

21. But he also hated that oil wasn't being priced fairly in his mind at $100

a barrel. He thought we were stealing their oil.

[Ozymanithrax]

6. No, he is or was a religious fanatic with a vision of a New Khalifate...

Not everything is about wall-street.

[fascisthunter]

7. Actually, yes I do

[dave29]

8. we need some more emoticons

I'm sorry, are you suggesting Osama was right to hijack planes and kill thousands of innocent Americans?

[dkf]

19. Oh no quite the opposite.

It scares me when violence is offered as a solution.

[dave29]

20. that's why it's called terrorism

I suspect

[Nye Bevan]

9. Doesn't he hate pretty much everything about us?

"Great Satan" sums it up I think.

[undergroundpanther]

36. I hate almost everthing about our consumer culture

and our corporations,wall street corruption,political crap,the inequality,the brutality in the american nightmare of bullshit,the sociopathy this culture makes out of human beings ,our soul killing suburbs,the fucking stupidity of cars,lawns and money, and the fanatic christo-nazi religions on the asshole right,etc.etc.If you are poor,genderqueer,smart and disabled there isn't much to love here or in most of the world's current cultures for that matter it's all various flavors of inhumane,abusive bigoted,callous disgusting and cruel.

[stray cat]

10. No - he has clearly stated his reasons and one is that you are an infidel unless you become the

Right kind of Muslim among other things ncluding implementing Shairiah law and leaving the middle east

[Forkboy]

11. I bet you are.

[dkf]

24. Read his letter...

He goes on quite a bit about usury, gambling with investments and making the criminals rich, stealing his people's wealth and on and on.

m.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver?cat=world&type=article

[Forkboy]

33. Not a working link for me, but I believe I know the letter you speak of.

If it's the one I'm thinking of he goes into everything from Moses onwards. Let me know if it's a different diatribe.

[RegieRocker]

13. He was angry about something during and after the

Afghanistan Russian conflict.

[Forkboy]

14. Osama was working for the U.S. during said conflict.

[laughingliberal]

17. Yep. nt

[mrdmk]

29. Working for, doubtful! Funded by, that's the ticket...

Osama bin Laden (Osama bin Forgotten is more like it at this point) is what the CIA calls blow-back.

In late 1979 Bin Laden was in Afghanistan fighting the U.S.S.R. Washington D.C. policy makers (started Jimmy Carter and continued by Ronald Reagan) gave Abdullah Azzam group money and weapons to tie-down the Soviets in their very own 'Vietnam'. It was latter said that the U.S.S.R. was bankrupted because of this strategy which lead to its demise.

[Forkboy]

31. Same difference.

;)

[undergroundpanther]

37. Bin Laden

Gave bush his "trifecta".

[Forkboy]

39. +1

[laughingliberal]

15. No. nt

[TheKentuckian]

16. Crosses my mind from time to time.

[laughingliberal]

18. If so, he failed. Wall Street has done great. It's the people who have been destroyed. nt

[Warren Stupidity]

22. no

[knowbody0]

23. my immediate reaction on 911

was that his intention was to destroy the paper empire. in my mushroom days of old I often visioned skyscrapers crumbling with papers floating. exactly like what we all witnessed of the wtc. the heart of the greed mongers of the world. that's just me, but I warned all my friends about the coming stock market crash way back in 2001.

[Bluerthanblue]

25. I don't think it was any mistake that the "world trade" center was

targeted- and yes, there is much to dislike about our culture imo.

Greed is an ugly thing.

[OHdem10]

27. Bin Laden said Wall Street was hit as s ymbol. He wants to

bring the country to its knees financially, ---These wars and
the money spent may just do that.

[dkf]

28. But did he hate us because of Wall Street or was that collateral damage?

[Better Believe It]

34. Osama bin Lyin is a reactionary millionnaire. He'd like a Middle East version of Wall Street

[undergroundpanther]

38. Wall street

is evil no matter if it's american flavored or middle east flavored,chinese flavored..It's a fucking scam against humanity and it is responsible for much of humanities suffering. I HATE wall street and the fucking pig monsters that invented it all and profit from it. I HATE rich people. They have NO RIGHT to be rich while millions are suffering.Eat the fucking rich,off with all their scheming greedy heads!! They make humanity chase money instead of building a sane,egalitarian, caring,just,humane,sustainable culture that we all can be part of.

[undergroundpanther]

35. I think

He maybe attacked because of not only wall street ..but because of america's corporations and their destructive,greedy and inhumane behaviors..Also because of our governments refusal to regulate and control corporations, and because of our sick empire mentality and narcissism,and our brutal unjust forgone policy and hypocritical drug laws and certain rabid neo liberal fans of idiot philosophies espoused by the likes of ayn rand,leo strauss and others insisting that near east cultures become as vapid and consumerist as ours is..Capitalism is running out of places to infest(grow) so some rich pig monster ceos want the world to be hooked on their "products" Like the horrible suicides caused by Montana of farmers in india.Maybe Bin Laden didn't want his people to wind up screwed like the farmers in India..


I'm not sure if it was Bin laden who did it ,I'm not sure he even exists or if he's not already dead.. Julian Assange had tons of people helping him stay out of the clutches of who would silence him and he is under arrest because a cia operative cried rape,meanwhile women who are not associated with someone the RICH want to silence, get raped with epidemic frequency here in this country and they never get justice and their rapists are not pursued like Assange was .Would people and congress accepted the hideous patriot act if not bullied by a threat? Bin Laden family is bushes best fiends forever..Coinkidink? I think not. Actions speak louder than words or rhetoric.

[Stevenmarc]

40. He loved Wall Street, however, he wasn't thrilled with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

He's not a huge Shia LaBeouf fan

[defendandprotect]

41. No -- mainly because it is highly unlikely

that Obama attacked us --

nor 16 alleged Arab hijackers!!

Those with the interests in this latest "Big Event" were those hawks looking

for two new wars -- Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/PNAC --

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. That is part of it

the rage against modernity and the depravity of the west, led by the US.

http://www.amazon.com/Age-Sacred-Terror-Daniel-Benjamin/dp/0375508597

Highly recommended book on this subject.

There are a few videos that explain this online.