[dennisw]

The ultimate Bin Ladin game plan is to evict the US defense forces from The Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other friendly Arab oil producers. To drive the US Navy from the Gulf area. We spend 50$ billion per year on these defenses. Bin Laden's messianic wet dream is to return to Saudi Arabia triumphant and to replace the Saudi Royal family.

Who else would benefit?
Saddam Hussein (would invade Kuwait)
Iran (would invade small Gulf states)
China

I would say the strongest cooperation is between Osama and Saddam. They are prolly in cahoots. They have the most to gain from the US leaving Arabia. China would be the superpower that would rush into the vacuum left by any US departure from The Gulf and the Arab world. China has the weaponry to make this all stick.

[tonycavanagh]

re I would say the strongest cooperation is between Osama and Saddam.

The only problem is that Saddam is such a control freak, although he plays the Islamic card he is not a true Islamic is Osama Bin Ladens sense.

With America gone, Saddam will happily gobble up Kuwait, and then he will take out Saudi Arabia.

He knows that after the pro Western States fall to the radical Islamic movement, countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Libya are next.

That is why he is so big on talk and low on action.

Sadam is Stalin to Osama Bin Ladens Trotsky, the control freak and the exporter of revolution as opposed to just terror.

China is not a Super Power in the American sense she does not have the force projection, and I don’t think she wants the head ache of the Middle East.

Tony