[Phantom Lord]

Bin Laden built roads and other "infrastructure" in these countries for the express purpose of the government providing him protection and a place to build his training camps and terror network. Period. End of story.

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He builds buildings that are necessary to advance his cause, which is to topple buildings (with people inside.)

How noble.

[texas booster]

In all fairness, all charity programs and many educational programs are run in fundamentalist Moslem countries by Islamic charities, with funds provided by Saudi Arabia and other countries. All good moslems also pay a tithe-like offering to the poor. That's just the way their society works, and allows one to claim they are a good little moslem. It's not just Bin Laden, its all good muslims.

Now lets peel the onion back a little. Islamicists hold to the notion that the head of all government is Allah. Therefore, the leaders of mosques are often the defacto government in many areas.

The ONLY leaders that Bin Laden supported, the ONLY schools (madras) that he built, the ONLY roads that he built and ALL charity the he employed, were to further his world view and to fulfill his religious duty.

So he built a school? He built it to train thousands of very fundamentalists kids as a future army to overthrow all non-Islamicist governments. BTW, his schools are closer to a religious version of communist reeducation centers of the past.

So he built roads? So did Mao and the VC. Everything he has done is with the purpose of buying influence, buying government officals, buying safety, and paying bribes. He built homes for widows? Only for widows of veterans who fought against the Soviets. He built an orphanage? Well, Saddam pays for Palestinians kiddies to blow themselves up, and then pays the parents because they "lost" a son.

And she is dumb enough to pretend that there are ANY "day-care centers" in Taliban run areas? What a fool. She is only trying to Anglicize an totally non-Western world.