Meanwhile, Osama Bin Laden's said:
"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript.
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"using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers."
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He also said al Qaeda has found it "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration."
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"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 generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said.
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"Every dollar of al Qaeda defeated a million dollars, by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs," he said. "As for the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.
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"And it all shows that the real loser is you," he said. "It is the American people and their economy."
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In a 1998 interview, Osama bin Laden the terrorist organizer of 9/11 who still roams free listed as one of his many grievances against the U.S. that Americans "have stolen $36 trillion from Muslims" by purchasing oil from Persian Gulf countries at low prices. The real price of a barrel of oil should be $144, bin Laden demanded.
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Let's face the facts folks. OBL kicked Bush's ass at every turn. OBL's goals were accomplished. Not one of Bush's was.
We lost the war folks. It's time we admit that.
