Osama bin Laden wanted $144 a barrel oil ten years ago... and we gave it to him.
''If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he'd turn off the tap,'' said Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance Company, a consulting firm in Washington. ''He said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel'' -- about six times what it sells for now.
Source: New York Times - "Fears, Again, of Oil Supplies at Risk"
I believe that bin Laden's longstanding plot against the US has never been to kill mass amounts of Americans in suicide terrorism.
However, if his plan truly was, as it has been speculated before, to:
- Incite the US to raise troop levels in the Middle East, making it easier to kill American citizens.
- Force the US to spend money on safety precautions and bureaucracy against terrorism.
- Cause instability in the oil markets, raising the price of gasoline to monstrous levels.
- Trigger American racism against Middle-Easterners, and Christian hatred against Muslim beliefs, which will help to spread anti-American sentiment in the Middle East.
...then I would say:
